Comments by "Adam Redwine" (@adamredwine774) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1. At least three thousand pagers, not several hundred.
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  2. I don't think he claims to be a specialist. It's literally his whole schtick that he is a generalist. I don't understand the point of going to his channel just to crap on him in the comments. If you don't think he says anything worthwhile, why in the F are you here?
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  3. A submariner I used to work with told me “All ships sink; subs can just surface again after.”
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  4. Can confirm: south of France is beautiful.
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  5. He would likely be proud that Israel is willing to fight so hard to retrieve its citizens who were victims of the worst pogrom since the Holocaust.
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  6.  @heraclesreborn  The Palestinians are not "the real owners." They have consistently refused to establish a state in the region despite being offered that numerous times over nearly a century.
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  7. You're welcome!
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  8. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 also which includes the highest resolution ever of the entire planet earth. It employs some interesting methods for keeping most of the data on the cloud while loading only parts to the end-user.
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  9. I click before I watch because I use it as a reminder of what I have watched.
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  10. Either a poor quality camera or a porch screen I think.
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  11. There is theoretically a possibility to go for nuclear power as well. It isn't something that can be sourced locally, but the infrequency of refueling and the friendliness of many nuclear supply chain sources is attractive.
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  12. I wonder how many frequent flyer miles he has.
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  13. Interesting to hear you describe the Yom Kippur war as "a resounding victory for Israel." Virtually every commenter I hear on the topic calls it a draw.
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  14. I did my master's thesis on the impact of climate change on nuclear power generation. It is true that there are occasions on which the heat means plants have to dial back, those impacts are relatively rare and, if they become more common, they can be overcome pretty easily by modifications to the cooling pond such as artificially increasing coolant flow.
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  15. I’ve been kicked off of just about every social media platform. C’est la vie.
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  16. Profit of diaper manufacturers…
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  17. Some fair points, but won't many of the jobs in new factories require more education? Minding and repairing a team of construction robots requires more than knowing how to weld.
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  18.  @ru4skuba  nah. There are always new places to explore.
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  19. I heard another analyst make the excellent point that there will be huge information gathering opportunities out of the attack. Follow all of the news and social media reports and you'll find out people who had an exploding pager that you didn't know were connected. See a business with a few people who were injured and maybe that is a Hezbollah supplier or front. There's a ton of stuff to learn just from the open source world.
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  20.  @boossersgarage3239  officially it’s something like 39 dead, 300 blinded. Unofficially it maybe a bit more but I doubt that it’s hundreds dead.
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  21.  @TK0_23_ timestamp 2:20
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  22.  @dougbrown9734 timestamp 2:20
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  23.  @irvinbayless8702  I don’t have anyone in particular in mind, I just know I’ve heard that many times.
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  24.  @marcob.7801  no, you always need an environmental heatsink, that’s how thermodynamics works.
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  25.  @marcob.7801  I’m talking about thermodynamics. Yes I know what a molten salt reactor is and I know what a thorium reactor is. It is clear to me that you, however, do not. No, a water jacket is not a heat exchanger.
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  26. I was thinking the same thing
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  27.  @lupita3689  Yup
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  28. @ not just any bomb can breach a reactor containment vessel.
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  29. SMRs don’t make a ton of sense for China with industrialization heavily concentrated in specific areas. SMRs make sense for small to medium sized countries like the gulf states purchasing the tech from private companies out of the west. Pebble beds actually make a bit more sense for China but they aren’t hugely different from Canada’s CanDU reactors that can also handle online refueling.
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  30.  @richardbaird1452  I am aware that pebble beds are very different. My claim is that the primary motivation driving the development of pebble bed reactors is online refueling. That particular feature is also possible in CanDU reactors.
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  31. Europe is committing a slow, sad, suicide.
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  32.  @SkywalkerPaul  Because they made very poor choices as a society.
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  33.  @SkywalkerPaul  overly generous social benefits, protectionist economic policies, and over reliance on US military protection are obvious ones.
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  34.  @SkywalkerPaul  Primarily a failure to invest in defense, overly generous social welfare benefits, and foolish economic protectionism.
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  35. Funny thing is, each political side only likes some types of immigrants.
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  36.  @ItsJoKeZ  certainly, but when a specific type of training (like robot maintenance) is required for many different jobs, societies tend to centralize that training into institutions that specialize in “training.” We call these “universities.”
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  37.  @jakeforrest  and the occasional emergency unscheduled and uncontrolled landing.
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  38. That’s what Japan is banking on.
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  39.  @Likeaworm  Greece is on my list. Probably I’ll go next fall.
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