Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. he's been hiking the Rockies for weeks, and they extend to Canada..... now we know where he was hiking to
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  2. it decreases the frontline to the south, but increases it to the north. Ukraine is creative. This cuts off water to Crimea though, hurting Russia. But it's also an admission by Russia they can't hold the south.
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  3. Taiwan does more for the US computer industry than just semiconductors and chips.
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  4. trains, rail, hubs, are easy targets and well inside artillery range. it's pointless to bother considering that as a reliable supply method.
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  5.  @Ravenoftheda  it's the most expensive initially due to the construction costs, but once running, long term it goes way down. if you already have the infrastructure sitting unused, it's FAR cheaper. economics is hard for the people seeking to destroy modern civilization.
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  6. Yup! And the US has been dealing with kamikaze speed boats since WW2. But in the modern age, we've taken small suicide speed boats seriously starting with USS Cole, and have many procedures and defensive measures in place as a result. We could probably improve them some more, but we've already been considering this specific threat for decades. Everyone else is way behind the curve.
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  7. he basically did already. you can do some research into each aspect he addressed. we've been telling people these things for many years now, and you just refuse to listen.
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  8. "Over time, the same is likely to occur with all hydrogen infrastructure worldwide." based on what?
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  9. public statements don't reveal military weaknesses.
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  10. well, I wouldn't be happy about what most Americans are discussing regarding Canada and its descent into tyranny.
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  11. the difference this time is the war is not defensive, no justified, and the russian public is aware of it or learning it. the national unity and support isn't there.
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  12. read a lot of history, engineering history, energy history, military/war history, famine history, history of specific nations you're interested in..... eventually you read enough to start seeing the patterns in history.
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  13. Correct. The US has been dealing with kamikaze speed boats since WW2. But in the modern age, we've taken small suicide speed boats seriously starting with USS Cole, and have many procedures and defensive measures in place as a result. We could probably improve them some more, but we've already been considering this specific threat for decades. Everyone else is way behind the curve.
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  14. the difference this time is the war is not defensive, not justified, and the russian public is aware of it or learning it. the national unity and support isn't there. the public doesn't support the war, and there are waring factions inside russia.
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  15. trains, rail, hubs, are easy targets and well inside artillery range.
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  16. tell that to the socialists and communists
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  17. have to protect consumers from Chinese products that are not up to standards.
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  18.  @chrisshepherd1566  for who? Russia moving grain in Crimea? With what water and what ships? Ukraine moving grain in Crimea? They don't presently control it. This is not about grain, this is about Russia losing, and what happens after Russia loses. we're not to that point yet. And when we are to that point, Ukraine will be free to rebuild things, quickly.
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  19.  @maigretus1  Homing torpedoes have been around since WW2. US used them against U-Boats. Called FIDO. Germans also experimented with homing torpedoes in WW2.
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  20. I was born in the Rocky mountains, and i don't get light headed or short of breath below at least 11k ft. it's not always just about fitness.
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  21.  @jestubbs69  the 3 days we had no internet in AZ was like a blast from the past. people went outside, ate at the outdoor picnic tables, sat in the grass lawns, etc. have face to face conversations. i was as amazing at it was decades ago pre-internet. Cellphones didn't even work. it was amazing. but as soon as the internet was restored, people retreated back indoors and heads down into their phones. If we regressed to pre-internet tomorrow, I would be in heaven.
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  22. Yup! Homing torpedoes, antiship missiles, cruise missiles, etc. Naval warfare has been using drones since WW2. FIDO, Fritz-X, TDR-1, and more.
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  23. survive =/= thrive two different things
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  24.  @Ozgrade3  my 2004 buick already gets 36-44mpg, and it's 20yrs old.
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  25. and many were only getting 2days to 2weeks of training before teh training battalions were raided.
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  26. but we need a LOT more coal power plants. and you're ignoring the mining, manufacturing, recycling, etc. pretty much Peter's whole video.
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  27. In college I was given an assignment to see if we could design a Tesla Powerwall for less than Tesla was selling. Goal: lower cost, same capacity. Tesla powerwall was all the rage back then. it cost something like $17k back then. I designed a lead acid system, even oversized it to compensate for lead acid limitations, and used proper lead acid solar batteries. And I was able to do it for $2500.
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  28. it's not inevitable. t has Serious challenges to overcome that the greens refuse to acknowledge, an thus are not working on solving anytime soon. Working on solutions is admitting it's a problem.
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  29. he knows far more than you, and he's not wrong about teh logistical realities. you provide no counter evidence.
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  30. Nothing wrong with eating a couple eggs every day. fools thinking eggs are bad for you need to educate yourselves.
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  31.  @harrywhitt2218  I have not read that one, thanks for the recommendation.
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  32. Even if you fully saturated the atmosphere with as much methane as it can hold, it would at most increase temps 1C. Our sun doesn't emit enough energy on the spectrum methane absorbs to make a difference.
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  33. Russia: started an unprovoked war against a neighboring nation, blames the US. Russia: pulls out of treaties because it is losing the war it started, blames US. US: expected Russia to actually win the war it started. US: didn't force Russia to do anything.
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  34. the conference is full of unelected rich elites. and they all flew there on their private jets.
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  35.  @kevinfelton689  yup, and we have things like CROW turrets for .50cal that can track and lead moving targets automatically.
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  36. proof that socialist central planning NEVER WORKS
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  37.  @Llewellyn2844  " the Russians wouldn't have invested in any sort of serious modernization" ....Kuznetsov When Russia says "modernize", it likely doesn't mean the same thing a western nation means. And the entire Russian navy overall is not in good condition. But that doesn't make it any less embarrassing for Russia. Russia claims to be a superpower, yet its most advanced ships, the closest thing it has to super carriers, are floating derelicts? That's just sad and pathetic.
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  38. what's even cheaper is the fact that CO2 driven climate change is a LIE
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  39.  @nickkorea5850  Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy in history. If we started building new nuclear plants in teh US today, we have enough fuel to power nuclear reactors for the next 100yrs of US energy demand. and all of the waste generated thus far since WW2 fits on a single football field.
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  40. politicians hate it when people get along
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  41. by restricting exports, they'll force other companies to develop their own solar panels and tech. and they can do it quickly and easily.
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  42.  @Withnail1969  depends upon the conditions. Some people are Already making solar panels, so it's merely a matter of expansion. Others have the billions to go buy the buildings and equipment very quickly, if they cared to. Many companies don't officially make a "profit", as they keep leveraging debt to avoid paying taxes. So that needs to be clarified further as well.
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  43.  @Withnail1969  as much as they are willing to. China's labor costs have risen far faster than most nations, and their prices are going up. I'm an engineer, and many of our vendors are either in the US, and the ones working in China have begun establishing manufacturing outside of the US. Even some Chinese companies have been moving their manufacturing to the US in recent years. In the US, we have higher standards and greater levels of automation that drive prices down while churning out a higher quality product (if the corporation or business cares about selling quality). And by eliminating shipping issues they can save money too. China had an unfair advantage on shipping for years, but that is going away.
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  44.  @Withnail1969  sure energy plays a factor, but not THE factor. When we manufacture things, the cost of energy is Never on the list. When we make sheet metal parts, it's about material cost, setup cost, and labor. When fixing an airplane, it's about part cost, and labor. When doing construction, its' about cost of materials, and labor (time). When doing electrical work, it's about materials and labor. when McDonalds decides to automate, it's due to labor cost. Why does Tesla automate their car production? Labor cost. Takes more energy to make teh car with robots than it did with people. But the robots work night and day, don't take breaks, don't need healthcare and benefits, don't pay income taxes or retirement....
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  45. That's called a Torpedo, a threat we've used for over 100yrs. Nothing new.
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  46. "Lets not forget that your average store bought drone used in Ukraine costs the same as FIVE M4 rifles." you did good until that statement
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  47.  @TheWtfnonamez  clearly you're not well versed in military pricing. I could build multiple rifles for what teh gov spends. but most drones like those in Ukraine can be made even cheaper than Mavics. When using drones as suicide devices, makes no sense to buy expensive ones. I could build a drone for what it costs me to build a rifle, likely even less. This means I could build probably 4 drones for every M4 rifle.
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  48. that's called "bedside manner"
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  49. maybe 50yrs from now...
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  50. people are very good at not listening
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  51.  @DDDrumpf  yes, substandard stuff can come from many places, but namely China. And to protect your own native industries from unfair competition. Can't have our industry getting wiped out, and leaving our nation crippled.
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  52.  @DDDrumpf  not a contradiction at all. you're simply not educated enough to know that there are two (and more) different and separate valid reasons to impose tariffs on imports.
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  53.  @DDDrumpf  "Your labour costs are too expensive for blue collar manufacturing jobs!! It's just impossible to compete!!" how so? It's painfully obvious you don't understand international trade and basic economics and national security topics.
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  54. Why do people still talk like Russia has ANY chance of winning at this point. Russia's best units (airborne, Spetznaz, Chechnyans, etc) were defeated Months ago, and they are so desperate now they are sending untrained civilians to fight with no equipment. if that's the best they can do after mobilization, the Russian military is already eviscerated and on it's last leg. There is nothing left of any consequence in Russia for them to send to Ukraine that would make a difference at this point. They have lost more men in 7months than the US lost in Vietnam. Want to compare this to past Russian conflicts? Russia lost 15k troops in 9yrs in Afghanistan, 451 aircraft (75% of that was helicopters), only 150 tanks, 1300 misc vehicles, and 400 artillery, and 11k trucks. Over 10yrs. Russia has lost WAY more than that in only 7months in Ukraine. Contrast this to 7months in Ukraine with now well over 50k dead, countless more wounded and POWs. Hundreds of aircraft lost, including well over 100 fixed wing (about 8 more lost in just the last week or so?), over 1000 tanks lost or captured, thousands of trucks, artillery, air defenses, thousands of APC and other armored vehicles lost or captured. And tons of other weapons, ammo, etc. Russia can't even make more equipment to replace its losses and is buying artillery ammo from North Korea. And Russia is running out of missiles of all types, and those they fired had about a 60% failure rate. Russia is taking WW2-level casualties. The US didn't even lose people at this rate in WW2.
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  55.  @SonnyBubba  torpedoes were invented by civilians, as were submarines and airplanes. there has never been anything about a torpedo that couldn't be built by civilians.
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  56. Ukraine has proved nothing, just brought to the wider public's awareness of capabilities that were known and used for many decades already.
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  57.  @moggadah  what do you think it means?
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  58.  @moggadah  you clearly don't grasp what population growth and economic growth means. Even before the days of consumerism and wasteful practices, back when people made things to last, economics and population were having dramatic and healthy growth. you're childishly conflating multiple separate things and debating teh wrong ones.
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  59. and CA is downstream, so if the other states pull out of the accord, CA is the last to get any.
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  60. NVIDIA GPUs could cost $5k each for years now, fi you want teh top tier GPUs. $2k is nothing. And these prices are rounding errors compared to what data center GPUs cost. I design computers that spend north of $20k per GPU. You're not getting one of these GPUs to install in your gaming computer, unless years from now you buy an old server to use.
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  61. 3:15 this is 100% false! so many lies and inaccuracies in this video. I work in the data center industry. Energy for cooling is but a small fraction of the total energy used in a datacenter, unless you bought a crappy datacenter.
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  62. the US has been dealing with kamikaze speed boats since WW2. But in teh modern age, we've taken small suicide speed boats seriously starting with USS Cole, and have many procedures and defensive measures in place as a result. We could probably improve them some more, but we've already been considering this specific threat for decades. Everyone else is way behind the curve.
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  63. and all that, just so Putin could get a few more ditch diggers......
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  64. And Well before the US gets involved in Ukraine directly, Europe needs to get involved directly First.
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  65. the only people surprised by this are the people who believe russian propaganda.
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  66.  @Justan669  how exactly is North Korea going to replace anything? they got that stuff from Russia and China, and most of it is so old and rarely used one has to wonder.
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  67. Just like how they alter the data to fit the climate change narrative. Or like how they kept changing the conditions during COVID to lie about the vax, deaths, natural immunity, lockdowns, etc.
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  68. the difference this time is teh war is no defensive, no justified, and the russian public is aware of it or learning it. the national unity and support isn't there.
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  69. better than taking a course
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  70. they've even been built in the oceans (underwater)
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  71. says a nobody with no supporting evidence......
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  72. 10k to go? where are you getting this info from, Russian state propaganda? People have been doing satellite inspections of tanks and they had a fraction of that in 2022, and most were unusable hulls.
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  73.  @zero95lucky  russia doesn't have underground storage, they don't even have hangars for their airplanes. the warehouss are accounted for in estimates.
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  74. messing with food production leads to revolutions
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  75. 2:40 this is not true. The GPUs were doing graphics and other things before the gamers got access to them. Go study up on Cray, SGI (NVIDIA is an off shoot from SGI), and others. I've worked with guys who were involved in inventing what you now know today s the GPU, and they weren't invented for gaming.
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  76. less viable than solar or wind
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  77.  @bilic8094  and very easy to strike again, in multiple places, all at once, and then you have to ship rail parts, not by rail, to fix. and rail hubs, loading/unloading, etc. are vulnerable too. there is a reason railroads have not played a major role in warfare since WW1. Look how easily the US cut german railroad supply lines in WW2.
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  78.  @BardChords  because Russians are stupid when it comes to warfare. They have a long history and tradition of proving it.
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  79.  @bilic8094  nope, not at all. Ukraine is proving cheap drones can strike all over inside russia and do significant damage. Also, how many locomotives and rail cars can Russia produce per year? Ukraine is hitting all over in Crimea, and farther.
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  80. Russia puts nukes in Belarus. Russia collapses following war in Ukraine, shatters into tiny fragments and loses control of its assets. Belarus inherits nukes. Belarus not a stable country in many ways itself..... Not good.
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  81.  @kaahzvi5820  Japan only had the better navy on Paper at the start of WW2. But in reality the US navy was better, more experienced, and the Japanese knew it.
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  82. the cur for cancer is simple and known. stop eating sugar. get enough physical exercise/work/activity in your life. and fasting.
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  83. don't underestimate Ukraine. they can still cross that river if they time it right and have the creative motivation. and they can rebuild the canals and likely get some help with the dam as necessary.
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  84. ad hominems are not valid arguments. cope harder.
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  85. as they light on fire and go bankrupt. clearly you're not paying attention to teh Chinese EV market....
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  86. people are fed up with fighting the personal wars of politicians
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  87. what do you expect from CA? they are communists.
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  88.  @lachlanbell8390  Yes, make excuses to brush Russia's embarrassments under the rug. Nothing to see here, move along. Russia wanted to sink its flagship. Lets face it, Russia's navy consists of many derelict ships, ships that can't sail like it's carrier, and it lacks the industrial capacity and economy to build more in any appreciable numbers. Russia is a shadow of it's former self (and even that wasn't great) and is desperate to cling to the false ideas about its own military might.
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  89. a $0.01 penny stock doubles in value, 100% increase, going to $0.02. But a stock valued at $1,000.00 increases only 10% going to $1,100.00, despite increasing by $100. Model Y sales are still penny stocks in the car market. Easy to claim large gains at this stage, but that gives a false impression of what is happening.
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  90.  @BryceLovesTech  then don't. but stop forcing everyone else to do the same as you. most people can neither afford nor rely upon a tesla.
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  91. consider that Russia has already lost 50k dead (according to official russian docs), and wounded is typically at least 2-3x as many as dead. Not to mention the many thousands captured since Feb 2022. Russia has easily lost over 200k soldiers in Ukraine already when you add it all up (dead, captured, wounded, etc. basically combat ineffective). 300K is only going to replace losses.
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  92. datacenters already reuse the hot water. many data centers are running on 27C and hotter "cooling" water anyways, which is hot water.
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  93.  @seapeajones  Energy intensive or not, other countries do it, CA is one of the largest economies on earth, the can afford it, if not for the corruption.
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  94.  @gregoryclifford6938  called rainwater collection.....
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  95. playing video games does NOT translate into IT skills. modern young programmers are actually terrible. just look how bad computer software has gotten over the past 20yrs. Young engineers never grew up tinkering and taking stuff apart and have no mechanical intuition.
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  96.  @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV  Gen-X engineers are close to retirement, and Millennials are senior engineers. Gen-z are the new engineers. Clearly you can't do math.
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  97.  @patrickmaddy4611  I am talking about Gen-z engineers
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  98.  @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV  no, it is relevant. the premise was that video games made people into better engineers. And that is simply not true, especially these days.
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  99.  @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV  "Gen-X grew up with pirated games we had to figure out without manuals... Great skill development..." Ah, so you admit it wasn't "playing video games", but rather building things, pirating things, reprogramming things.... "Plus, the games helped us develop fast interface skills with the mouse etc...." Ah, so you admit it was Building things, designing things, improving things, not playing games itself.... "Gen-Z has console AAA games and smartphones with touchscreen trash interfaces - they don't have a chance..... :D" Ah, so you admit that it's TINKERING and building things that made the difference, not playing video games, otherwise GenZ would be superior. "The premise is that old school games got us into IT, nobody mentioned engineers or being better at anything.... :)" No, building, tinkering, designing better solutions, etc. got you into IT, not playing video games. So far you haven't refuted a single thing I've said. In fact, you're making my argument for me with tons of case examples.
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  100.  @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV  but it was not the act of playing games, it was everything else the games led you to do. "Building, tinkering, designing better solutions, is something I do on a daily basis, but not on computers... " and it's something the younger generations largely do not do at all. "I just wanted to play the games, not tinker... Playing games was the entire motivation to switch on a computer - 100% of it and motivation matters..." yet, you did anyways, because you had to in order to play the games. younger generations don't have to anymore, as games are readily accessible in many ways.
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  101.  @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV  "But without the lure of computer games, I would never have touched a computer or been in IT for a while.... Games were my gateway drug..." And I have literally Zero disagreement with this statement. I am disagreeing with the claim that "playing video games" is the thing that mattered. When in reality that was just the driving force behind learning the Actual skills one needs for IT. The desire to play games, and the actions you took to play those games, was where the skills came from. Gotta pay attention to the details, the specifics. Life is all about nuance. Look at what I actually said, not what you THINK I said.
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  102.  @EveryoneWhoUsesThisTV  "Playing computer games is what mattered for Gen-X, because it was uncommon... For Gen-Z it doesn't set you apart or give you any skillsets that the majority don't have." Wrong. Playing video games was a defining experience of GenX and Millenials. Video games were extremely common for us. but the games and tech was new, and evolving, not just in terms of software but hardware. and things could still be taken apart and were not touch screen black boxes. We also played outside and didn't have internet and other things. so we learned things differently. and people in general had less stuff back then too. so we had to make stuff. "The claim is that "playing video games" is the thing that mattered... because.. it's the driving force behind learning the Actual skills one needs for IT." Playing games was the reason for obtaining the skills. but PLAYING the games did Not confer the skills mentioned and needed. Attention to detail, it matters.
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  103.  @RibshackTV  "Intuition is just that... You don't learn intuition" false. you are not born with mechanical intuition. it is learned. you do things enough until you gain a working undersatnding of what does/doesn't work, that is where intuition comes from. "by gaming you get exposure (in a fun way) which makes things like circuitry, electricity, operating systems, PCBs & software manipulation easier." False. playing video games teaches you none fo those things. Working on circuits, programming things, building things, troubleshooting things, etc. is how you learned those skills. Playing games taught you none of that. Your desire to play games, led you to do those things, so that you could then play games. but none of that was learned while PLAYING games. it was your INTEREST in games that led you to learn the other things. but you weren't soldering circuits or programming an operating system while playing video games.
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  104.  @BenjaminGatti  nuclear is actually price competitive if you keep the plant online long enough.
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  105.  @BenjaminGatti  Everyone is charging their EVs at night, and an EV requires as much energy as an entire house. Factories often run 24hrs per day.
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  106.  @BenjaminGatti  we do have 24hr factories, all over the place. you're clearly just unaware of them. 3rd shift exists for a reason. Some factories cannot shut down, such as glass factories, even for weather or emergencies, as the cost to restart the glass flow is too expensive. Factories and buildings in general consume 2/3 of the electrical energy generated on earth.
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  107.  @nickkorea5850  yes, teh one case, of USSR soviets being idiots with technology they weren't responsible enough to handle correctly. aside from that one exceptional corner case, cite another one. Cite a disaster relevant to modern nuclear technology and controls. relevant to building new reactors.
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  108.  @Withnail1969  haha! Well, if you think that, then why does China actively deflate their currency to keep labor low? Also, even if you refuse to think labor costs matter to corporations, then just wait until China's shrinking/aging population dries up, and their is insufficient labor to keep all teh Chinese factories open. Labor costs will skyrocket, and work wont get done. Companies are already divorcing themselves from China.
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  109.  @Withnail1969  and labor prices drive lower prices for exports. if you're so smart, explain what makes China so appealing from a cost-perspective?
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  110.  @Withnail1969  keep telling yourself that...
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  111.  @Withnail1969  that proves nothing. Yes, the world needs oil, coal, natural gas, mining for raw material for other sources of energy, etc. That doesn't prove your right. Cities also grew up around logging mills downstream of large forests. That doesn't mean wood is the most important cost of goods. some cities grew up around car factories, that doesn't make cars the largest cost of goods. energy is needed, but we have lived in an era of cheap energy. Energy is a prime consideration in my industry, but in no way related to making what we sell. We know our customers will spend more money operating our equipment over the life of the product than they bought it for. So we show them that if we spend MORE money making our product More efficient, they will save on their operating expenses long term, and will save more money in teh long run by buying a more expensive energy efficient device. But we do that to justify selling a better more expensive product, and make more profit on our end. Doesn't hurt that our argument is also true. But when we design and manufacture our product, the cost of energy to manufacture it doesn't even factor into the design nor development of our product. Labor costs, and then material costs, are the two largest factors we deal with on a daily basis in engineering. I also have a side business designing and selling various products, and we don't even consider the cost of electricity to run our machines to make our products. We factor in the material costs, parts costs, and time spent assembling it. But we don't include cost of electricity of the laser, printers, power tools, CNC, etc. as when you divide the energy cost by the number of parts made, it's just not worth the time to calculate it and add it to the price. it's pennies. Costs more in labor to take the time to calculate it.
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  112. yes, draft all the illegal aliens
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  113. an Iran deal we can live with? sinking all their boats would be a good start.
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  114. it was never in Ukraine's benefit to hit the dam. can't believe so many people think Ukraine destroyed it.
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  115. and yet the Europeans, Canadians, Sri Lankans, and others think it wise to mess with food production.
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  116. a used EV plus battery costs as much as a new EV. there is no viable used EV market. Most teh batteries can't reasonably be swapped, they are throw-away vehicles.
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  117. they are frugal becasue the CCP keeps them poor, intentionally.
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  118.  @AlbertLloydy  it doesn't matter how far it can travel from, it just matters that it is detected and destroyed before reaching the target. And yes, the US military can detect these above and below the waves, and has weapons to deal with them. Launched from 5mi away and destroyed within 1000yd of target Versus Launched from 50mi away and destroyed within 1000yd of target Makes literally no difference.
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  119. about time...
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  120. more proof the leftist don't actually care about the climate or ecosystem...... if they truly card, CA would be reasonable
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  121.  @TheWtfnonamez  I'd be surprised if the US only spent $4k per rifle. I wish they spent less, because they should, but that's the reality of US gov procurement. they pay ridiculous prices for standard items in high volumes.
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  122. there is a enough nuclear waste fuel to power the US for 100yrs, but the "green" community even hates nuclear.
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  123. Naval warfare has already been using drones for decades UAV: TDR-1 (ww2), FIDO (WW2), Fritz-X (WW2), anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, etc. Unmanned naval drones: torpedoes (WW1), Homing torpedoes (WW2) submarines (US already has many such as ORCA, Manta, etc.), surface ships (US has many such as port protection, gunboats, sub hunting ship, etc.)
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  124.  @johntowers1213  "most of those things you mentioned are high value assets that lean heavily on the quality over quantity ethos" Not true at all. torpedoes, and missiles are in widespread use and have been for decades. the TDR-1 was extremely cost effective, but was an experiment and not a fully approved nor funded project. but those who tested them in combat begged and pleaded for more. But even before testing had commences, US procurement had already decided not to make them operational. You're missing the point though. Every single guided weapon in history is a "drone". Some are cheap, some are not, but all are equally DRONES. the US used tens of drones in Iraq and Afghanistan for decades, I know I was there and we used them. many ideas used in Ukraine, many drones used in Ukraine, were developed by the US in decades past. Including things like the switchblade drones. And the US military and civilians saw the potential of weaponized quadcopters for years prior to Ukraine and did studies on it and people even made videos about the dangers and potential. But they are nothing more than an extension of the drones used in decades past in wars like WW2, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and OIF/OEF, Armenia, and Syria. Small cheap Drones were already in widespread use for decades, but it wasn't until Ukraine that the public at large became aware of it is all. And partly due to teh fact that such drones don't work as effectively in wars the US is actively fighting in, as we fight differently, and the way we fight is not conducive to this type of drone warfare seen in Ukraine working.
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  125. Ad Hominess are not valid arguments.
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  126. he's wrong about almost everything this video. Cooling energy is a small fraction of total datacenter energy use. GPUs were Not invented by gamers for gamers, and NVIDIA did not develop all of their tech, they took a ton of patents and engineers from SGI to start NVIDIA.
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  127. @@user-og6rl9mt9j wrong. civilians in war are worthless
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  128. Biden's Democrats are trying to get the same group think of their own going...
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  129.  @brianniegemann4788  you're free to leave the US and never come back if you hate the Constitution so much.
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  130.  @phueal  everything in Ukrainian territory is within easy striking distance. Ukraine is even hitting well inside Crimea. HIMARs and other systems are "artillery".
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  131.  @phueal  Ukraine has the means, and has been using them to reach farther. And don't forget the cheap drones.
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  132.  @Ericwvb2  funny, you're a communist, and so are the Russians.....
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  133. CO2 improve drought resistance in plants, reverses desertification, improves rainfall and soil moisture, and makes plants grow bigger and faster. CO2 will help food production overall. the climate change narrative is a lie. the fact you can't figure this out destroys your credibility.
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  134. I was rooting for Wagner, because Russians fighting Russians takes pressure off Ukraine. In a way the present situation is better than Wagner winning. Wagner was arguably Russia's most elite forces. They have now been dishonored, disbanded, broken up, dissolved, absorbed into regular army units, and will no longer fight as effectively and not has as good of leadership. The best Russian unit just got taken out of the war. This is a win for Ukraine. And, it proves how inept the Russian regular armed forces are, how weak Putin is, and sows doubt in the future of teh Russian state as a whole. We are on step closer to the nation state of "Russia" as we know it today, ceasing to exist.
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  135.  @DDDrumpf  moronic laughter , and insults, and denial is all you've got. I bet that fake laughter is to cover up your insecurities.
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  136.  @acidbronson9712  think WW2 homing torpedo, or TV guided TDR-1, FIDO, or TV guided BATTY bomb. been around for nearly 100yrs.
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  137.  @moggadah  I already told you, go reread what I said until you comprehend it.
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  138.  @ericjsmoczynski4374  germany survived from 1945-1990
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  139. Russia has nothing left with which to fight a multi-front war....
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  140. greens hate nuclear..... so EVs will never dominate.
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  141. Russia is stuck in teh late 19th century
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  142. the top 1% wealthiest people on earth contribute 66% of CO2 emissions.
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  143. Japan and US were close allies before WW2 as well. in the 1920s and 1930s both countries knew that the two would eventually have to fight one another. Kind of a strange relationship.
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  144.  @BillSmith-fx7xx  and some people naturally have more hemoglobin. I was born in the Rockies, all my siblings and I have naturally elevated hemoglobin. But we've since spent most of our lives below 1000ft. Yet I can still visit Denver, Flagstaff, and higher elevations with zero ill effect whatsoever. I don't feel any loss of breath until close to 11k ft. It's a genetic perk I have that I am continually grateful for.
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  145. FYI, if it was a truck bomb, the truck was coming from Russia
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  146. i've seen college students cherry pick statistics in their papers
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  147. wow. you're such a raging leftist aren't you? You do know the political left today are communists, right?
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  148.  @markbeiser  a clear trend in isolated examples only. countries of short distances. Others are still developing hydrogen, and more companies getting into it. some industries cannot rely upon pure battery EV even if they wanted to.
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  149.  @braderley  you missed the point of the question.
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  150. 1) CO2 climate change is a lie 2) most "green" tech is BS, the only viable solution is Nuclear power.
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  151.  @Ozgrade3  yet it's getting 44mpg at 20yrs old and outperforms a Tesla in cost to build, cost of ownership, cost to drive, longevity and resale value.
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  152.  @Ozgrade3  where I live, these buicks are highly valued for their reliability and are a dime a dozen. there are tens of them just in my part of town alone. " So it's only worthwhile talking about something that is built in 2023 and forward. " that is a BS argument. no bases for only discussing 1yr old vehicles. in fact older vehicles are MORE relevant to teh discussion.
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  153.  eblman5218  visiting Canada is one thing, moving there is something else. I am pretty sure he's just visiting.....
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  154. Russia is failing to adequately train, equip, and supply their troops since Feb 2022, adding more bodies to a strained logistics system is only going to make things worse. Russia is struggling to support their troops in the field so badly that they are buying basic ammunition from North Korea. They can't produce the equipment, vehicles, ammo, weapons, supplies, needed to win this fight. Adding 300k more bodies t the meat grinder wont help. But human wave tactics is all Russia has ever known since at least WW2, if not earlier.
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  155. Aluminum air batteries are best, but not rechargeable. recyclable, highest energy density.
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  156. same for wind.....
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  157. and why should US taxpayers be on the hook for a private company?
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  158.  @Trahloc  exactly, letting businesses not pay taxes, is the same as giving the businesses those taxes back. net result is the same.
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  159.  @Trahloc  "Besides, only people should pay taxes, not companies." why? I can see the appeal to that, but I'd like to hear why you think that is?
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  160.  @TheMrgoodmanners  has never stopped them from selling arms to other countries, including the US.
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  161.  @twostop6895  I get that feds control interstae commerce, but the point is that it's not up to CA then either, and the feds can FORCE california's compliance. But, CO, UT, AZ, NV all touch the water, and could drain it before it reaches the CA border, and thus the river would no longer exist on CA territory, and they'd no longer have claim to it. While feds control some of this (but clearly are not, as they are leaving it to the states to work out on their own), the water does exist within the physically boundaries of the respective states. and so long as they draw only from their side of state boundaries, it's technically not interstate commerce. Especially for CO if they drew from the river upstream where its banks are solely within CO.
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  162.  @twostop6895  colorado can
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  163.  @twostop6895  you clearly don't understand how messy the law really is. it depends Heavily upon how you approach it. And you're just not thinking about it creatively enough.
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  164. the greens hate nuclear @info88w11 
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  165. doubt it, Risk is more about luck than anything else.
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  166. couple years to get teh infrastructure in place? sure. 15yrs? no
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  167. modern doctors are snake oil salesmen for big pharma
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  168. much of the modern Western economy cannot function anymore without internet. Even gov agencies have forced a great many services to online-only. Credit Cards don't work without internet. We lost internet to the entire state of AZ for 3 days in 2015 and it was amazing. people were awesome, but money and business came to a near halt. only those of us with cash could still function.
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  169. no training, no equipment, no logistical support, lack of maintenance, lack of leadership, etc. Russia is struggling to produce the most basic of military equipment such as artillery rounds. 300k additional troops basically just brings their forces in Ukraine back to what they were in February 2022.
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  170. aluminum-air batteries exist in prototype stage
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  171. yup, he is spreading mostly lies in this video. I work in the datacenter industry, and I've worked with the guys who are partially responsible for inventing the first GPUs.
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  172. we're having a normal winter in my area. plenty of snow, plenty of cold. none of the overexaggerated storms and warm weather materialized. My area has had consistently colder winters for the past 3 yrs in a row now (according to the utility companies, as they track temps vs energy usage).
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  173. ESG is communism. It leads to inflation, economic ruin, blackouts, poverty, stress and anxiety, fear, loss of freedom, promotes incompetence, is anti-meritocracy, etc. No one who follows ESG will ever get it right or be successful compared to capitalism properly executed.
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  174. married women wouldn't HAVE to work if they actually pulled their weight at home.
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  175. Just like WW2. Army/USAF takes care of Europe, Navy/Marines takes care of the Pacific. With a little mixing in both theaters.
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  176.  @michaeldowson6988  for very short flights. There has been a 2 seat light electric on teh market for many years now. it's range is so limited I couldn't even fly to my next nearest airport and back on a single charge.
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  177.  @tech010101x  lied about what? if you're going to make accusations, you need to back them up with facts/evidence.
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  178.  @typhoon320i  even if it is true (I don't know that it is, and your word alone isn't enough) that Tesla uses no rare earths in the motor, the battery is LOADED with them. and as Peter pointed out, the Motors use FAR more copper too, and copper Also requires far more energy to process and produce than the materials used in ICE vehicles (steel, aluminum....).
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  179. And the Chinese military has patterned aspects of itself off of the Russians...
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  180. you didn't do anything. GPUs were invented for the datacenter industry first, and the GPUs gamers use are chump change compared to what datacenters use.
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  181.  @jwadaow  "They were invented for games exclusively. That was always the largest market for GPUs." wrong. the technology NVIDIA uses as the basis for their GPUs came from SGI, and SGI did not make nor sell anything for the gaming market, and this was before the days of widespread personal computers. (we're talking closer to the Nintendo and Atari era) "It was an expensive innovation to use them for anything else as there was no existing market. You do not know what you are talking about." Wrong, I work in the supercomputer industry, and worked with people who invented the core innovations that made the GPU possible decades ago, and designed some of the most powerful GPU deployments on planet earth. The biggest consumer of GPUs has always been datacenters and supercomputers. the gaming industry pales in comparison.
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  182. my 2004 Buick Lesabre gets 36-44mpg depending upon winter/summer. and I can drive it for cheaper than people charge their Teslas (I compared it to Tesla owners on youtube and their data).
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  183. In college I was given an assignment to see if we could design a Tesla Powerwall for less than Tesla was selling. Goal: lower cost, same capacity. Tesla powerwall was all the rage back then. it cost something like $17k back then. I designed a lead acid system, even oversized it to compensate for lead acid limitations, and used proper lead acid solar batteries. And I was able to do it for $2500.
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  184. good. green tech and climate change are a scam inflation reduction act is a communist inflation magnification act.
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  185. take the southern regions and crimea, and the remaining Ukrainian territories held by Russia will be within range everywhere from multiple directions. and russia can't sustain the pounding and losses indefinitely against a population that doesn't want them there. they will have to leave eventually.
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  186.  @cooldudecs  define an "expert"?
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  187. let china protect them......oh, wait
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  188.  @rfwillett2424  US has been dealing with this for decades.......cartel drug subs.....
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  189. too bad much of what he says is false.
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  190. still believing the hype and propaganda of the hypersonics? China couldn't even hit a known stationary target within 25miles. Hypersonic are extremely expensive, and you can't target what you can't see over the horizon in real time. Russia has this problem in Ukraine. Thy can fire at known GPS coordinates, but not at moving targets, and even then Russia's miss/failure rate is higher than the US TDR-1 drone from WW2. Russia can't observe in real time moving targets in Ukraine, thus can't hit them, just like China would need to be tracking the carrier in real time.
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  191. multiple studies in multiple countries have proven EVs are not better than ICE for many reasons Peter mentioned.
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  192. it's easy to win peace post-conflict, most countries just do it wrong.
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  193. we already had cruise missiles before vietnam, and we used armed drones in vietnam based upon those cruise missiles too.
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  194. wouldn't be the first time a dictatorship or tyrannical gov declared war to stay in power.
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