Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "John Stossel" channel.

  1. @Bezz80 a public utility doesn't mean you don't pay for it. Do you not get your water or gas consumption metered?
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  2. Same with 90% of republicans want universal background checks. That wasn't the question asked.
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  3.  @DejectedCat  "a few people" over the last decades the number was 40k to around 30k a year. In fact a few years of road fatalities are enough to match the casualties from the detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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  4. It is a big deal. If I tell people one can make a gun after a trip to the hardware store nobody believes me because people are so detached from basic metalworking and practical craft skills. But tell them 3D printers can make guns and suddenly they realize the genie is out of the bottle.
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  5. Cardboard fertilizer.
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  6.  Tucson Jim  "No crimes have been committed with a M134 Minigun - the laws work" - you're a complete bullshitter. There's thousands of criminal uses of illegal machine guns, meanwhile there's only a couple uses of legal machine guns for homicides since 1934 (one of them a cop assassinating an informant). M134s are less common than Uzis, and also very costly to reproduce in a home shop. They're almost entirely milled guns, possibly from forgings. Meanwhile the Irish loyalists fought the IRA with Uzis they manufactured in a home shop. The law against machine guns does not work because there's plenty of them, unregistered. Hell, all the people who did not turn in their bump stocks are illegal machine gun owners. "U.S. v. Miller (1939)" - how nice of you to completely disregard the context behind that decision. Miller was a no-show for the trial and he was shot dead before the decision had even been made. Also one of the reasons behind the decision: "The Second Amendment protects only the ownership of military-type weapons appropriate for use in an organized militia." This is just lack of foresight. Short barrel shotguns and short barrel rifles are military-type weapons. At the time they weren't. "like any car owner, all gun owners should also be required to not only get a license" - false. You only need a license to drive a car in public. If you want a license to discharge a gun in public, by all means. "as well as large (over 7-10 round) magazines" - California just had their capacity limits on magazines struct down due to them being unconstitutional. "You can't ban the sharing of information... LIE! Sharing the plans for nuclear weapons will get you in trouble" - you do realize even wikipedia has the plans for nuclear weapons, right? The gunbarrel style nuke is the easiest to construct. You'll never get anywhere near the weapons-grade material so the knowledge on how they work is out in the open. "Wikileaks Julian Assange was recently arrested. How did you miss it?" - lmao but you can't put his leaks back in the bottle. That's why you can't ban information. Once it's freely available it will be spread. "How about sharing child porn - just information, right?" - that's like claiming libel is just speech. You can't fucking rape people and trade the videos for profit because that's criminal activity. The blueprints for a gun? Not a crime. Otherwise any engineer with spare time could commit a crime, I know I sure as fuck have a shit ton of gun designs doodled on my notebooks from my college days. "How about the live feeds from your phones and PCs?" - it's still a crime. Gun blueprints aren't crime. "considering 90% of Republicans favor stricter gun laws?" - bullshit. How about you actually look at the survey and read the questions asked?
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  7.  Ray Vorontsoff  "the poor can go on craigslist and buy cheap shit" - yeah, and cash for clunkers removed part of the supply of "cheap shit".
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  8.  Ray Vorontsoff  you know I've seen people nowadays who actually think Prohibition worked, is there some new kind of contrarianism where people take really unpopular government programs that almost everyone agrees were a mistake and actually try to defend them?
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  9. Remember when Ron Paul was looking good in the polls and news channels wouldn't even show his name or his photo? They make sure Joe Public doesn't know your name or your face.
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  10. But the people defending the mandatory minimums want plea deals. They effectively act as those judges that reduce sentences in your example. They just want to score convictions and keep their numbers up. They bypass the mandatory minimums with that. If you're guilty, you take the plea deal and get out in 3 years. If you're innocent and want to fight, you're gambling 16 years in the slammer.
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  11.  Ray Vorontsoff  "Have you heard about such thing as INFLATION? Have you heard about such thing as TECHNOLOGIES? These two things drove the vehicle prices up" - I wanna know how you read a comment about a government program increasing the value of older cars and went on a rant about technology making newer cars expensive. "Now you blame government in your "inability" to sell your car cheap." - Stop doing drugs. That's not what I said. You're losing your mind as you type. "Don't be a hypocrite" - There's no hypocrisy here. "If you and people like you really care about people who can buy cheap cars only, prove it with your action." - Do you know about a thing called Game Theory? "You won't. Because YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE A CHANCE TO MAKE A GOOD BUCK OUT OF YOUR OLD JUNK" - Congratulations, that was the first lesson in Game Theory. You've just explained to yourself why you're wrong, but you can't event realize it. "I didn't either. This is why I'm pretty happy that the government offered me a better deal than junkyard or RESELLERS of my car." - You're a dummy. The government didn't offer you a better deal. The government TOOK your money, then used your own money to take your car out of the streets. YOU PAID FOR THE PROGRAM and allowed the government to BRIBE you with YOUR OWN MONEY. You didn't get a better deal. That's how real life works, jackass. Of course that a rational agent in the car market sees his money being used to get cars out of the street so he sees an opportunity to make his money back. But you're the kind of fool who got took for a ride. It would have been money if the government didn't steal your money first, and you got a couple hundred off that beater. But no. You got taken like a chump and brag about it.
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  12. No, you don't. The current Glock file by IvanTheTroll12 can be printed in a 300 dollar printer. @Ike Matthews
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  13. What do you mean by "use it immediately"? Because the 3D printing gun community is pretty big and there's lots of ingenuous ideas, many I would call as immediate as it gets.
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  14. @Hans how the fuck was it advanced? The Nazi government was pathetically inefficient.
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  15.  @ccrow3355  don't forget to congratulate drugs tor winning the War on Drugs.
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  16.  @Captain_Fantasy  watch the Thunderf00t videos on Fukushima. Yeah, you can find radiation in the Pacific. You get more from the potassium in bananas than from the fish, but that doesn't make for good headlines.
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  17.  Havla Fitta  nah, angle grinder, solder and a drill press is enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAO8oxwioU
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  18.  @krisofamerica  Fukushima was the result of a flawed 1950's/1960's design protected by an insufficient seawall absolutely tanking a huge natural disaster but then failing because backup generators and switching stations were placed in areas that could be flooded rather than uphill.
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  19.  Ray Vorontsoff  "don't make me laughing" - stop huffing paint "The program isn't mandatory" - bruh it doesn't matter if it's not mandatory, if McDonald's is selling 1 dollar cheeseburgers and I use government funds to subsidize it by 50 cents I have made 50 cents the new market value of the cheeseburger. It doesn't matter if you insist on paying full price, that just means you're a dummy. If you start pulling levers and pushing buttons in a way to change markets, they change. You can't deny the change. "You can sell your car for $500 to those you talk too much" - but if the government is artificially driving up the price of my car I have zero reasons to sell it for under the new market value. "It is never late for you to start doing real good things instead of philosophy." - It's never too late for you to stop being a bootlicker. "Gift you car to those who are in need." - No.
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  20.  Ray Vorontsoff  That's right, ignore the argument and walk away. Bitch boy.
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  21.  @gavinsaint2224  I was willing to be respectful and explain to you how waste disposal is not a problem and a controversy manufactured by the anti-nuclear lobby, but reading your comments makes it clear you can't be reasoned with. The only sheep are the people who haven't researched for themselves. I have. And you?
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  22.  @sarahshanahan2222  most waste can be used as fuel in thorium reactors
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  23.  @elfpimp1  we're too hung up on the Liberator. Many designs have surpassed it's abilities, easier to load and repeating rather than single-shot. But even then, legally speaking the gun is the frame. The current version of the 3D printed Glock frame is very high quality and all the other parts can be purchased over the counter without regulation. You can basically have a full working gun because all the parts that make a gun work well don't actually count as guns. Obviously this is different in Europe because our serialized parts are the slide/bolt and barrel. But still, 3D printing has actually helped on that end too. A 3D printed mandrel, salt water and some copper wire can rifle and chamber drawn-over-mandrel tubing so that you can make barrels without a lathe.
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  24. But with plea deals they do lenient sentences. Take note: the people you are defending only want to convict to keep their numbers up. They don't care if they're out un 2-3 years. In fact, they benefit from repeat offenders.
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  25.  @bdchatfi  Just a small addition here, but the bailout money needs to stay in the financial sector. The overinflation is mostly contained to the stock market. If you printed all that money on people who are going to spend the money on real resources you'd collapse everyone's purchasing power. If the government is causing inflation by printing money out of control, I'd rather it affect some fictional items on a ledger than immediately hike the prices on the supermarket. The first is just a continuation of bad policy and continue the over-evaluation of stocks, the second is Venezuela-tier economics.
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  26.  @bdchatfi  Didn't the crisis start before the blockades and they only affected a minority of the oil trade? But that's beside the point. It doesn't matter what causes the crisis. What matters is the inability to print yourself out of the hole. "We didn't learn from the 2009 housing crisis." - This type of policy goes back to the 70s. That's how far back we haven't learned.
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  27.  @srmatte1  I've been hearing about the water releases at Fukushima for 10 years now. Loved those pictures of fish with parasites inside them mislabelled as tumors to scare people.
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  28.  @gavinsaint2224  Yeah you might receive radiation from the sun.
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  29.  @geneplummer6645  I mean, not all waste is equal. Some of the waste decays in 100 years, some of it lasts longer.
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  30. They run propaganda campaigns against disposal and then complain we don't have disposal.
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  31. @Hans "mass unemployment because there was no unemployment benefits" - how would unemployment benefits be responsible for unemployment rates?
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  32. @Hans the most efficient? It was an absolute clusterfuck. Hitler burned through nearly 1 billion Reichmarks in gold reserves in his "economic miracle". Food prices increased due to the Nazi agricultural policy. The unemployment figures were completely fudged by ignoring how many women stayed home due to the financial incentives, the number of refugees who fled Germany and the unemployed who were absorbed into the armed forces and work camps. Their economic policy was so terrible that they had to sacrifice rearmament to prevent the demoralizing food rationing which in the end made Germany rely heavily on horses for logistics, despite the popular conception that the Germans were highly advanced and mechanized.
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  33. The Fukushima reactor sustained the tsunami, even with an insufficient sea wall. The "built on a tsunami prone area" talking point is overused because there's nothing wrong with the area itself.
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  34.  @kdemetter  You've always been concerned? What measures did you take? "especially since you can be a carrier with knowing it." - This is true for many infectious diseases. Either way, the asymptomatic spread scare was created due to shoddy science and it's not the main driver of spread. Asymptomatic carriers have always been a very minor aspect of spread and that is true for this pandemic as well.
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  35. Thunderf00t's videos on Fukushima debunk the fearmongering campaign.
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  36. Cotton and glycerin. If you have to ask what I mean, then you shouldn't even attempt doing it.
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  37. But why introduce that middle step?
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  38. Thorium.
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  39.  @DejectedCat  the bomb causes more damage than the dirty materials.
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  40.  @Captain_Fantasy  "there are different types of radiation" - I mean, there are but you don't know what that actually means and you're just parroting an observation. "no one gets cancer from bananas" - precisely because your own body's radiation output is actually greater than the decay of potassium in a banana. If the fish in the Pacific with the record levels of radiation are actually less radioactive than bananas... "I never see any headlines about Fukushima" - then I suppose you just learned of all of this telepathically?
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  41. Nothing? I wish all my life's problems could be sealed inside an abandoned Walmart.
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  42. Cheap but not consistent enough to run a grid.
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  43.  @Chris-ie9os  If it can't run the grid it's not worth discussing. Everyone's free to buy their own. Meanwhile the juice the world runs on depends on running the grid.
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  44. Bananas have radioactive potassium.
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  45. But it was a catastrophe, and it was the concrete that really sealed the meltdown.
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  46. They'd need a nuke or a specific anti bunker bomb that could punch through meters of concrete and needs to be dropped from 10,000ft. Nuclear plants have their own SWAT teams.
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  47. It stays in a closed loop and is returned to the boiler again.
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  48.  @Chris-ie9os  Wind is not reliable or clean.
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  49.  @Chris-ie9os  If something can vary wildly between 80-20 percent that's precisely the point. That's a 60% gap that needs to be covered by something that's not wind.
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  50. The problem is that money rarely changes and if you try to change the picture you're trying to print then you'll make a note that will look funny to people. If you try to make a 3d printer refuse to print a gun not only will you need to always keep feeding it the new models of guns people are designing for 3D printers, but you will also have to deal with people changing the models slightly so that they're no longer the same as the prohibited design. Finally, the software on the printer can be easily hacked and people actually make their own 3d printers by buying the motors and hooking them up to microcontrollers running open-source software. The government and manufacturers can't do anything about people buying the components for 3d printers and running their own custom software.
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  51.  @jimpeschke3435  the Oak Ridge experiment lasted 5 years
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  52. Pretty much all energy is subsidized.
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  53.  @bogdanbogdanovich140  Sure. But decentralization inherently means the energy is consumed locally rather than sold to the grid.
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  54. And there's microplastics in human placentas. Sorry but a once in a lifetime event that hurts a few plants is not even in my top 1000 issues with the world.
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  55. Glock? Heckler & Koch? FN Herstal? Sig Sauer? Sig just got the Army contract for the new M17 service pistol and it's a plastic frame gun.
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  56. It's difficult to turn tidal motion into something that can spin a generator. Minutephysics here on youtube had a video about it, I think.
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  57.  @ROGER2095  the RBMK reactors kept being used with some added safeties, Chernobyl's engineering could have survived if it wasn't for plain old Soviet incompetence. The plant was operational even though it was behind on safety testing. Obviously the plant manager wanted the tests to be rushed because everything is based on lying to higher ups. They screwed around with power generation before the tests because it was the end of the month and factories needed to fill quotas. The inherent danger of the design was theorized by scientists but the paper suppressed by Soviet censorship. So when the Xenon poisioned reactor was about to stall they pulled out as many of the control rods as possible to surge the power back up, and doing so triggered the positive void coefficient as the water turned to steam. The scramming procedure forced the graphite to go through the part of the reactor that was going out of control before the boron neutron absorber control rod could tame the reaction.
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  58. I know he's insufferable but please watch Thunderf00t's videos on Fukushima. This is fear mongering.
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  59. It's still a testbed. Fusion is 10 years away. Like it's been for 40 years.
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  60. Not plugged to a big corporation? So you get the minerals from a mom & pop mining operation, your electric components from a small artisan chip factory, etc? How exactly do you think panels get made?
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  61. Nothing fishy. This was a slow march. You were caught by surprise, many of us have bern into this and spreading the word for a decade plus. It only looks like a conspiracy because you just noticed now.
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  62.  @johnwilburn  "It takes incredible skill and metal working capabilities to make springs or barrels." someone should tell these days, then: Magazine spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3elIJqdnMkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJVhueHe1ww&t=135s Rifled barrel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8-Z7fYIB8 "they also have steel frame rails precisely molded into them" - he just pinned it to his 3d printed Glock frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW971lit5Rk @ 1:40 and it already clocked 600 rounds through it. Ye of little faith.
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  63.  @NGMonocrom  I replied to a comment saying "It takes incredible skill and metal working capabilities to make springs or barrels" and I posted evidence to the contrary. Your reply to me: "Anyone can bend a long enough piece of metal at home." - that means you agree with me so I fail to understand why you would need to reply. "But how about long term? I seriously doubt it'll perform reliably for any length of time." - why does it need to be long-term? It only needs to work once to prove a point. 50 people died in New Zealand and each magazine only needed to be used ONCE to cause all that mayhem. Gun control is sold to us as a way of preventing these events where each weapon and magazine are only used for a few minutes and the damage is done. They can't be prevented now. So it doesn't matter you can't use them long term. Make extras, replace as they fail. Ordinary springs do not last forever either. Weapons have scheduled maintenance cycles and parts should be replaced before breakage/failure and this means springs and other wear items like gas rings or extractors.
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  64.  @NGMonocrom  "Anyone can bend any piece of metal" - again, you are agreeing with me. "sustained, long-term shooting" - irrelevant. You only need to use a magazine once in a massacre, therefore invalidating gun control by giving anyone the tools to make the necessary items at home. Now I want to know who the fuck is upvoting your posts 2 minutes after you posted. Perhaps it's you.
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  65. That's the point: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKlfd6PiJKk the pressure bearing parts are unregistered, you only need the plastic parts to serve as the receiver/frame because legally those are the registered parts.
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  66. I did a college project on the 1911 blueprints by converting them to 3D CAD blueprints, replicating all the individual cuts. It's an absolute goddamn bitch to machine. It speaks volumes about JMB's genius, to be honest.
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  67. It's still a testbed. If it does work another one will be built for power. The current fusion tests last 10-12 seconds. The next one should work for hours I think.
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  68. It's just nuclear with extra steps. The Earth's mantle is heated by nuclear decay.
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  69. It's just nuclear with extra steps. The Earth's mantle is heated by nuclear decay.
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  70. Yes because there's no such thing as mechanical failsafes or electronics hardening.
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  71. Almost none. Please look into Thunderf00t's videos on Fukushima.
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  72. Reactors are built to handle a plane crash. They have like 2 meters thick concrete domes over them.
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  73. Hydro dams affect the environment and geothermal is just nuclear. What do you think keeps the mantle hot? Nuclear decay.
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  74. The 3D printer community already cam up with multiple ways to work around the printer limitations. Everyone is still thinking about the Liberator but that's old news.
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  75. Who told you that? That's just wrong, waste is not a problem. It's entirely a manufactured controversy.
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  76. IvanTheTroll12 already confirmed you can make his Glock frame on a 300 dollar printer with a 90 dollar spool of Zytel.
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  77.  @mumenrider862  The doppler shift in radiation proves that celestial bodies are moving apart from each other. Like a car moving has a higher pitch when approaching and a deeper rumble when moving away. Instead of understanding the reasons why people say the things they do, you refuse to look into anything and act incredulous when the information is brought to you. Instead of listening for the car and realizing it is approaching you, you decide to stand in the road and question where the driver wants to go.
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  78. To be fair the ozone layer recovered because we banned CFC. As an upside, you can now use body spray as a flamethrower because it uses butane instead of those gasses.
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  79. Please watch the videos on Fukushima by Thunderf00t here on youtube. He is an expert unlike the journalists.
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  80. There's a natural nuclear reactor that operated unattended 2 billion years ago and it's still there. Nature managed it just fine.
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  81.  @gavinsaint2224  if it gets people to shut up I'll dig the hole in the yard myself
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  82. Jesus there's people who recover lead from such sources for bullets and despite working in their home shop they have enough safety to not get their lead levels that high.
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  83. Great if you want to stop radio and cellphone communication. Someone had to produce that "free" energy you're harvesting from the waves.
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  84.  @gcolombelli  "print a crappy plastic gun that needs to be taken apart and reassembled after firing a single shot" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKlfd6P the OP of the video has fired 600 rounds so far
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  85.  @Chris-ie9os  This is wrong. Politics forced the nuclear industry to adopt more dangerous reactor designs that were suitable for military uses, while suppressing research into safer reactor designs. When the documentation on the Oak Ridge experiments with molten salt were "rediscovered" the DoE started getting questions about it and repeatedly said they were looking into it without ever doing anything. Now China and India will move forward with next gen reactor designs because politics dragged its feet.
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  86.  @Chris-ie9os  Huh... They've been developed. They can't be built because you can't just build a new design without DoE approval and they purposefully dragged their feet despite being asked about it in Congressional hearings on an almost yearly basis. Like I said, China and India are moving forward with their projects. Meanwhile Trump said he'd have the DoE look into it back in 2017 or 2018. Don't know how that's going.
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  87. It was a Stratasys Objet 500, it is in fact a 3d printer.
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  88. The empire will keep giving preferential treatment to minorities because it makes the majority mad and promotes division between ethnic groups. It's an effective divide and conquer tactic.
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  89. Hydroelectric is very environmentally damaging. We can't keep building more because of the interference with water life. They have to build chutes for fish to migrate upstream and lay eggs.
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  90. It was supposed to be stored in Yucca Mountain but the project got defunded.
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  91. Waste disposal is no big deal. Finland and Sweden are moving forward with geological disposal. Newer reactors can consume most spent fuel we keep. There's actually a naturally occuring nuclear reactor that stopped 2 billion years ago, it only moved a couple of meters since and doesn't leech materials through water. Nature babysat it just fine.
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  92.  @GunFunZS  instead of explaining just link them this video lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAO8oxwioU
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  93. As opposed to the hundreds of atmospheric nuclear tests that didn't destroy the atmosphere?
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  94.  @yungextras4572  How many people died in 15 minutes in Chernobyl?
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  95.  @rn7371  not all AR-15s are semi-automatic because there are single shot uppers. Yeah, it is a nitpick.
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  96. They're not allowed to ship them to Yucca Mountain otherwise they would have.
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  97. That's not a problem in the sense that it's a manufactured problem. Yucca mountain was the supposed burial site. It appears in one of the American Godzilla movies, even.
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  98. They're great to augment capacity and off grid but they still need batteries or else they only work during the day.
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  99. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9v_QkTBT4 not with that attitude. Better than factory? Hell no. But it's gonna survive a few gunfights.
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  100. How do you generate an EMP without a nuke?
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  101. @Hans "unemployment benefits would have helped to stabilize people's income and thus demand for businesses and that would have prevented more layoffs." - the unemployment benefits have to be paid by those businesses so all the extra business they get is money taken from their pockets. They're gonna lay off people to be able to keep the lights on.
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  102.  @jhespinosa  because through the benefit of hindsight we know that the new deal actually made the depression worse, so it didn't work.
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  103. @Hans "Libertarianism is based upon the idea that the individual regardless of his value and actions for society would have the right to life and freedom. Which is nothing but wishful thinking" - funny, who's to say it's you who doesn't deserve to have those rights? Always happens with you fuckers, it's always other people who are undesirables, not you. "In nature there exists no such thing." - yeah, it is. The gazelle has the right to kick the cheetah in the mouth. "These things are the result of natural observation" - naturalistic fallacy "they are science" - no, it isn't. "thus the true natural law and the only valid moral" - Bullshit. Your naturalistic fallacy pretty much detaches mankind from the ownership of their actions and if you do not own your actions there is not objective moral code to follow. "the fake moral finger at the Nazis for performing natural laws" - that's pretentious and fallacious.
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  104.  @jhespinosa  from you own source: "While the economy had somewhat recovered, it was far too weak for the New Deal policies to be unequivocally deemed successful. In 1933, at the low point of the contraction, GDP was 39% below the trend before the stock market crash of 1929, and by 1939, it was still 27% below that trend. Likewise, the number of private hours worked was 27% below trend in 1933 and was still 21% below the trend in 1939. Indeed, the unemployment rate in 1939 was still at 19% and would remain above pre-Depression levels until 1943." I mean...
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  105. @Hans comments disabled ahahah oh wow OP is a coward, thanks for putting pro-Nazi propaganda on my internet history you bitch. "You can't escape the natural laws" - natural laws allow you to escape from natural laws. "Things that are observed as a rule in nature are no naturalistic fallacy" - nature allows for contradictory observations, and mere observations can be affected by a huge number of possible biases (for example survivorship bias, you can make observations that are indeed correct but the conclusions being wrong). You're trying to justify your ideology with nature while vehemently ignoring all the instances where nature does not conform to your ideals. "but the foundation of science" - not really. Mere observation is not science. Look at Cesar Milan. He is famous for understanding dogs but his understanding of dogs comes from flawed observations of wolves in captivity. Therefore his knowledge is not scientific in the slightest because his hypothesis was never confirmed into theory and he never did the scientific work required to do so. Just like yours. "there is no right to win." - literally nobody said that. "If the cheetah wins the fight, the Gazelle can not claim some rights to life and liberty, because there is no one going to enforce that." - but if the gazelle had human understanding they would figure out a plan to take advantage of the fact that cheetahs can only sprint at full speed for a few seconds. They would entrap and kill the cheetahs to eliminate the danger and avenge the fallen. Fortunately they do not possess the level of understanding and rationality or else animals themselves would have upset the natural balances, but we do. Obviously I cannot jump off a cliff and argue with gravity I have a right to life. But my right to life postulates that once you break the unwritten contract and kill me, you have put up a bounty on yourself.
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  106.  @jhespinosa  "Did is work or did it not?" - there's evidence that it didn't, and the evidence that it did that you provided actually said it didn't do a whole lot. "The New Deal policies implemented by Roosevelt went a long way in helping to reduce income inequality in America" - okay, but was the objective to reduce income inequality or save the economy from crisis? "And that is my point, you can distort the facts to fit your ideology." - okay but you just distorted the fact that the New Deal reduced income inequality into the New Deal saved the economy from the Depression.
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  107. @Hans "Guess why we never had a depression again?" - remember when Reagan pulled the US out of a huge crisis in the 1980's? (and then fucked it up with massive spending) It was kind of a big deal. Unemployment actually hit a peak higher than the 2007-2008 recession. And before him JFK had also proposed to Congress that taxes were paradoxically too high. George Dubya also had great success with his tax cuts. So not only there have been serious economic downturns since the Great Depression, which shuts down your claim, there's also the fact that the US govt. adopted a lot of free market ideals since. You can claim that those free market ideas are what caused the recessions (even though they seem to have fixed them) but you cannot claim the New Deal is the reason recessions haven't happened since.
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  108.  @jhespinosa  you selected the facts, you just ignored what didn't fit your narrative.
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  109. @Hans how does that graph prove that anything is false?
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  110. @Hans it nearly duplicated govt spending in relation to GDP.
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  111. @Hans "spending to GDP ratio automatically increased without spending a single additional cent" - yeah that still counts as an increase in spending. If you're not scaling back spending along with the GDP then you're making a conscious decision to spend "more". "multiple times lower than during and after WWII " - yeah, wars tend to be expensive. That doesn't mean it's a good thing. "probably the most prosperous time in the American history" - because the rest of the fucking world was either broke or turned to rubble. Anyone in the field of engineering or manufacturing knows about this tale. American manufacturing was the best available at the time and there was no competition. After Deming popularized the idea that striving for quality and continuous improvement would lead to savings and increased productivity, Japan and then the rest of the world started to steal America's thunder. You can't replicate the 1950's unless you nuke half the fucking world and rise from the smoldering ashes as a place where even mediocre manufacturing quality can get you sales.
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  112. @Hans "The question wasn't wether wars are a good thing or not, but how government spending saved the economy" - it didn't. Government spending did not save the economy, demand for American products and thus labour saved the economy. Spend without a demand and you'll be stuck in Hitler's position. "And no, decreasing GDP and stagnant spending is still no spending increase." - it is a relative increase. If you earn less money this month but keep your expenses the same, you're increasing the rate at which you're going bankrupt. "The point wasn't to replicate the 50's" - by claiming that the 1950's had levels of prosperity that are desirable you are indeed pointing to certain conditions you defend being the determining factor by that prosperity. Except that they aren't. "The point was that since WWII there hasn't been a depression again" - but there have been. "because government spending went up and created the most prosperous age in the American history." - it didn't. The most prosperous age had to do with the fact that the rest of the world was either broke or in shambles. You can't ignore the most important factor behind the 1950's economic situation and attribute sole responsibility to government policy. "If government is so bad, why hasn't the standard of living and the economy collapsed since then." - cost has decreased and quality increased in the sector controlled by the free market while government-controlled housing, education and healthcare are in shambles. "And thus your libertarian ideology also economically debunked. " - pretentious and fallacious. Also, the Nazis lost and don't control any government. Nazism debunked lol get fucked kraut lover
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  113. @Hans "So your argument would be irrelevant, since sooner or later Europe and Japan did recover from the war." - and behold, the US loss some relevancy in the worldwide economic plan and hit quite a few speedbumps. It's almost like things aren't as good as in the 1950's, huh? "If big government would be really so bad as you Libertarians claim, why this period of big government has become the most prosperous and economically stable period in modern human history?" - the US has been losing prosperity. "Do you notice how you switched from "the New Deal was a disaster"" - I didn't. I'm just working with what you people have been giving me. ""but this economic miracle that was created in this period of massive government spending is not too blame on this massive government spending"" - yeah and I have this rock and there's no tigers around me, so clearly this rock repels tigers. It's not an economic miracle that the US bombed the absolute fuck out of the rest of the world and then became the leading industry for a few decades until Zee Germans, post-Mao China and the land of the rising sun caught up. That's not a miracle, that's a logical result. ""but only the private sector did prosper" ???" - way to miss the point. What I said is that we're living in a world where technology is getting more and more accessible despite of the fact that it's extremely complex and cost-intensive to produce due to how the free market works. But things like houses, which are relatively simple and we have been building for millennia are becoming more and more difficult to own. Our prosperity is tied to the fact that trinkets and creature comforts are extremely cheap, to the point the poor in America can afford a car, A/C and a smartphone. But break a leg and you won't be able to afford the hospital bill. Our actual living conditions are decreasing in comparison to previous generations. "Also you coming up with this ridiculous demand argument. Guess what? That demand was created by government first" - Hitler tried that and he entered an economic bubble. He needed war or else he would have to stop producing war material and send people home. Creating demand by government is the assbackwards way of doing it. "The Nazis were defeated militarily, not economically." - are you fucking kidding me? The Nazis were defeated economically through and through. Not only were their oil reserves insufficient to win and depended on the capture of Russian oil fields to have a chance of winning (they were pushed back before they could restore the Russian oil equipment into working condition) but they also depended on foreign alloys such as Swedish steel and Portuguese tungsten. Most of German's losses can be attributed to logistical factors, such as their inability to use Russian railroads and their dependence on horses.
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  114. There was nothing wrong with the region. Building next to water is logical. The only thing that failed was that when cooling was shut down as part of procedure they could not start it back up and the generators were flooded.
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  115. They've been releasing it for years. Eating a banana will give you a higher dose than eating fish from the coast of Japan.
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  116. We have apples and fruit.
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  117. That's not a problem, people MAKE it a problem so that they can complain. Look up "natural nuclear reactor", I think its in Gabon or something, the radioactive waste has not moved more than a few meters in 2 billion years and doesn't leech into water.
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  118.  @ts9749  It is not a problem. We know how to safely contain nuclear waste but at every step of the way the anti-nuclear movement opposes every attempt to deal with it. At least in the US, Finland and Sweden are moving ahead with their geological repositories.
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  119. https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKlfd6PiJKk this can be made on a 300 dollar printer, 600 rounds of 9mm. Have some faith in technology...
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  120. Geothermal is just nuclear with extra steps. Radioactive decay is what keeps the mantle warm.
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  121.  @jarrod752  You can disagree all you want, it's just the facts. Modern gen reactors can't go into meltdown either, and geothermal does leak radiation. Studies have found that geothermal in Iceland pulls radioactive isotopes from the crust and the sludge that is pumped back up contaminates the surface because there's no nuclear regulation overseeing the process. Radioactive decay is responsible for at least half of the geothermal temperature gradient and used to be more, so there would be no geothermal with pressure alone.
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  122. It's funny how engineers quit and blew the whistle on the safety concerns but the regulatory agencies didn't fix it.
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  123.  @kdemetter  how many people did you get sick before this pandemic? Viruses existed before 2019. Do you want to be held to those moral standards? You may not like the answer.
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  124.  @2g00dt0btru  Some of us remember the AZT scandal. A man's expertise is thrown out the window when he throws the toast at the wall to see if it sticks, endangering people in the process. How much backbone did he show by having to lie about masks?
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  125. Government infrastructure prohecrs are always a huge scam. I appreciate trying to limit the scam, but it's still one.
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  126.  @philtimmons722  I don't think it's necessarily the math but working in the industry. I had a classmate in college whose mother worked in a power company. She admitted in private that the wind farm had been a massive scam because instead of the power going to the localized grid it had to plug back into the larger grid "hub" so to speak, and contractors cheapened on the connection so the cables had greater losses over a larger distance. Also the position of the turbines disregarded the studies on efficiency and they were placed where they'd have to pay less subsidies to the counties involved. Obviously I cannot give details that would identify the location or company to not get anyone in trouble. My point is this corruption affects everything, but wind power is already in the edge of not being that great that the normal corruption might actually make the wind farm a net negative. The added corruption of all the government subsidies just sweetens the deal for anyone who wants to make a fat stack building stuff people don't need.
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  127. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9v_QkTBT4
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  128. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp9v_QkTBT4 the plastic is not used for the pressure bearing parts. The barrel/slide combination is not regulated, but the frame is. Mechanisms can be just purchased off the shelf, but even then they're sheet metal and springs. You don't use the printer for those. Sure, if we are counting the time to acquire a printer and learn how to set it up it's gonna take longer. But a fully functional Glock is so much better.
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