Youtube hearted comments of Harry Mills (@harrymills2770).

  1. Obama is fundraising extensively on YouTube for Joe's campaign, here in the USA. You used to see Biden and Harris doing commercials. Their approval is so low, you hardly see them appearing at all, but we're seeing Obama over and over and over. I was sick of him 12 years ago.
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  2. "Against stupidity, the gods themselves, contend in vain." World War I was also a zombie apocalypse. Meanwhile, we go down the same censorship path. It's an abomination that you need to use euphemisms and circumlocutions in order to have a meaningful conversation on Censor Tube. Thanks for your efforts.
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  3. I love the prank-to-prison pipeline.
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  4. Doubling their efforts to negotiate reminds me of the time Dad doubled my allowance. "But you don't give me an allowance, Dad." "Well, son, now you're gonna get twice as much." "But Dad. 2 times 0 is 0." "Exactly. Now go mow the lawn."
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  5. As Thomas Sowell has said, Noam Chomsky is a linguist. He deserves to be famous amongst linguists. And that's it. His ideas on political economy are juvenile. He's just one in a long list of intellectuals who pay no consequences for their bad ideas, who get FAMOUS for their bad ideas, and do much harm. Chomsky on Peterson is like a 5-year-old critiquing Einstein.
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  6. "If you don't do what I say, I'm going to hurt myself."
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  7. Europe's been subservient to the USA since 1945. Until recently, this was very beneficial to Europe, in my opinion. But as the USA goes mad, so goes Europe, only faster and more completely, because as dysfunctional as American culture is, however corrupt its government becomes, the USA still has the tattered remnant of a constitution that constrains its government far more than the constitutions of the EU countries.
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  8. EU's eyes are bigger than it's stomach.
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  9. How did I ever survive the first 25 years of my life without my own mobile phone???? I remember it being a big deal when I could finally afford my own land line to my apartment. Somehow I was never bored. There was always something to do OUTSIDE.
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  10. Nothing appeals to humans more than confirmation of their own superiority over those different from themselves, a fact they always sort of suspected, all along, anyway. - Harry Mills
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  11. As governments continue to mismanage our media of exchange, we WILL find alternate media of exchange.
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  12. I disagree, Alex. America's biggest geopolitical adversary is Democrats and our own CIA and State Department.
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  13. "We're acting like Nazis because the other guys are Nazis." Nazi is as Nazi does.
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  14. It's great to see him still at it, and still fit.
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  15. Pepe was a creepy character, but the MORAL of the story was always him getting punished for stalking the poor kitty. Even in the scene being cancelled, Pepe gets taken down.
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  16. Yes. As CEO, Matze blew it. He hitched his wagon to Amazon, without any kind of backup plan for hosting services. I think institutions that've hitched their wagon to Google are going to suffer, too.
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  17. It's the "Long March" through our educational institutions. The Soviets made it impossible for anybody to openly support socialism. There was just no hiding the Gulag, and no stopping Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago." Since you couldn't rationally defend communism or its re-branded socialism, the idea was to de-construct capitalism. "Look at how unfettered capitalism has run amuck! Look at how people live in poverty!" It was never capitalism that was being criticized, but fascist features that crept in when big corporations learned how to manipulate the rule set at the source by bribing Congress and the regulatory agencies created to regulate them. This became what is known as "crony capitalism," which isn't free-market capitalism, at all; rather, it is capitalism with a rule set that is distorted by a small number of very powerful interests and interest groups, what we call "public-private partnerships," today, with a straight face. Public-private partnerships and regulatory capture creates, in essence, a fascist system, in which everything is under the government, nothing is outside of government, and no one may be against the government (according to Mussolini). What people don't understand is that communism = socialism = fascism. They're all the same thing, with different brand names and all brands claiming to be better than all other brands. But functionally identical: You will get what the government gives you and you will obey the government without question in all things. This sounds a lot like an atheist's version of "Divine Right of Kings," back in the old days of monarchy. Different labels. The same exact "lords and ladies telling the serfs what to do and the serfs better darn well be happy and better darn well OBEY." So aristocracy = communism = fascism = socialism. Functionally identical. Just applied with modern tools and modern terminology but the same fundamental idea: The individual must give up all autonomy and property to the collective, and the collective will decide what to give to the individual, if they feel like it, and when they get around to it.
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  18. It's like Sunday School teachers quit the church and became full-time censors.
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  19. Ya gotta see outside the bucket to know you're in a bucket. But every time you try to raise your head, one of your fellow crabs pulls you back in, trying to climb over you, and you present a tempting ladder to a loser.
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  20. The Norse believed that if you didn't die with a sword in your hand, you wouldn't make it into Valhalla.
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  21. Excellent "ground/aerial" views! That, or at least a topo map, where the iso-contours bunching up reveals the steepness of the terrain, is something you don't get from other YouTubers. There's rarely any discussion of the actual terrain. Granted, FPV drones negate many traditional terrain (and trench) advantages, but your 3-D images are most helpful, and probably quicker than pausing the video and staring at a topo/iso-contour map. I think everybody uses color coding for elevations, but it's not conducive to showing the tactical situation in enough detail for the tactical-level analysis most YouTubers are spitting out. Nobody is putting out topo maps for these reports. Topo maps reveal all. Most of what I get from YouTube is worthless in this regard.
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  22. Very few can lay out the foundations and fallacies in intersectionality like this woman does. Thanks for putting this scholar on YT.
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  23. In an actual foreign-espionage case, they would've given the Trump campaign a "defensive briefing;" however, knowing that all "foreign agents" involved were working for the CIA and FBI, such a briefing wasn't necessary. They had former U.S. attorneys on the Trump team, but the FBI didn't see fit to brief ANYbody that there was any kind of threat. Because there wasn't. Just a bunch of paid FBI/CIA assets doing their best to entrap somebody - ANYbody - within 7 degrees of separation of Carter Page or George Papadopoulis.
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  24. "We're placing an embargo on products we can't do without."
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  25. "The issue must be raised publicly and decided internally." "But you don't let anyone raise the issue, publicly. You censor this idea, and arrest people who dare evade censors." "Next question."
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  26. It's not love if it's unrequited. It's lust or obsession, but not love. The only "love at first sight" is when you or your wife/partner have a child, together. Immense feelings of love and protectiveness. Instantly. The best love builds over time. One friend put it this way: Love isn't rolling in the hay. Love is your wife making extra good mukluks to protect your feet out on the ice, or making your favorite food for dinner. Love is you busting your ass working on the house, so your wife has a better home, or washing her car without being asked.
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  27. Even artillery isn't end-all, be-all. Drones introduce a new component to attack and defense. To your point, however, drones can greatly improve indirect-fire capabilities of artillery pieces. But you're still up against the fact that a drone that can disable an artillery piece is much cheaper than the artillery piece, itself. Maybe by the end of this war, everyone will be mounting artillery pieces on much lighter vehicles in much greater numbers, relying on mobility rather than expensive armor. Be harder to hit rather than worrying about surviving a hit. What good is a tank if you can mount a tank-killer on a Toyota Hi-Lux platform?
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  28. Nice little squared-off hatchback. Makes a nice porch off the back. No leaks along the seam at the top. Very nice feature. Your bed seemed a bit cramped, but it looks like you had the option of a bigger/longer bed. Maybe it was just a trick of perspective. Title said "Disastrous," so when you hung up your keys and walked off, I thought the monkeys were going to make off with them, and maybe other items. Then I thought maybe the embankment, undermined by flood water, was going to collapse or something. In the American West, distances are so great, mountain passes so high, and winds on the plains so strong, that I always end up with a little bigger and more powerful pickup truck. Part of it is also due to u.s. government interference reducing the available options to a hand full of favored companies, with all other competition eliminated by regulations that don't permit new companies to spring up. I spread out a lot more than you when I make camp, although when I was your age, I did something closer to what you do than I do now, only my way wasn't as refined. Your quilted window covers are very nice. I've been known to just stick a towel across a window and roll it up. Make that pass for a curtain. Then unfold a sun visor for the front windshield. Crude but effective. Bigger, messier kitchen than your efficiency setup, but always plenty to eat and share. I'd cook outside, maybe with a Coleman stove on the tailgate. Button it all up and crawl onto a pallet in the bed of the pickup, or make shift in the passenger compartment. But I'd be out in the weather for all my cooking. Never thought much about it because I always had good rain/cold gear. More than one night, I'd stretch a tarp overhead. Nothing as elegant as your setup. Now I drag a mini-camper behind my pickup, which allows me to build a little tent city, complete with wood heat! I like to invite friends and to have all the arrangements for guests, in case they're unprepared, which happens quite a bit.
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  29. So far, I still don't see ANY platforms out there with very good user controls. The "free speech" platforms are all pretty polluted by fake (and real) right-wing trolls, who discredit the libertarian voices. Such could easily be weeded out of an individual's feed with better user controls. This is not a difficult programming problem.
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  30. Food for thought. Definitely more authoritarian than I would want to see practiced across the whole USA, but not a bad model in many ways for ground-up governance of individual states within the United States, with what amount to town hall meetings, plans issued, and plans re-visited the next year to be kept or modified or eliminated according to how well they're working or not working for that community. I think the government-run education is a net plus over the SHORT term, but even as the video talks about how a "ministry of everything" results in the greedy and corrupt eventually - if not immediately - dominating those ministries, dispensing favors to themselves and their cronies at the expense of the people, so can education be taken over by ideologically-driven political hacks who seek to control the people by controlling what the children learn in school. In the USA, we see how far astray public education can go, and Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union stand as extreme examples of those same dangers of education-cum-indoctrination. But as long as it's only Rwanda-scale (Say, state-of-Illinois-scale in the USA), there are MANY beneficial aspects to the now-state-run education that emphasizes the traditional subjects of science, math, history and language (English, in this case). Just the realization that the people actually involved probably know more about what's fair and what works is a HUGE improvement over the idea that some bureaucrat in the city knows best for everyone. To the extent possible, you want people with the authority AND responsibility to manage their own affairs, without outside interference and without being able to hurt or take from anyone else along the way. Quelling the fires of tribal hatred was HUGE. I don't like the president-for-life thing that's taking place, and the dangerous part will be how well the current brilliant and charismatic president arranges for a peaceful transition of power after he's gone. But for the time being? He sounds like the best guy for the job in Rwanda. And that $2100 figure might be a little off if there are many individuals BARTERING in those open-air produce markets, with many growing their OWN food and selling or trading off the surplus. Makes ME want to invest in a Rwandan entrepreneur, because it SOUNDS like the government wants to FOSTER free enterprise and not just steal the proceeds to give to their friends, as we see in virtually all the corrupt socialist countries around the world. I expect I'd have an honest, highly motivated, and hard-working person at the other end, who'd make BOTH of us rich, with some investment money sent their way.
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  31. That's good to know about the (lack of) performance of generators in severe cold. It's not enough to have the generator. You also need to keep it out of the weather and the extreme cold. Some kind of shed. Some kind of way to buffer the cold temperature of the air that they're breathing. I'd do something similar to what they're doing with their generators, but with more of a heat-exchanger on the exhaust, to keep the place warm when they're running, without making them breathe the cold, outside air, directly. Small heater to keep the shed above freezing or near freezing in any extreme cold conditions. No fan of HOA's here or in Willow, but that drone overflight gave a distinctly white-trash sort of impression. They love the wild outdoors, but their own nests look pretty trashy. Not the guys featured in the video, who appear to be pretty organized and mindful, most of the overhead views suggested that if the same people stayed there for generations, there would be a large and growing junk yard adjacent to their houses. I am a bit divided over urban sprawl. I sure would like to live a little farther out, but I'm in a small town, far from the big cities. Our valley of about 70 thousand, evenly dispersed on either side of the Snake, is the closest thing to a metropolis for about 6 hours in any direction. Anyway, if you're going to move to a remote location, it doesn't mean you can blight your little corner of it. The idea is to live with a small footprint, and try to blend in with Nature as much as possible. Or that'd be my idea. Respect for people that close to the Arctic Circle, year-round. Just not for me. I'm a south-of-the-(Canadian)-border kind of guy. Well north of the tropics, but also well south of the Arctic. Still more north than south is my preference. I like the 4 seasons. I like some topographic relief (mountains). Far enough south for really good passive geothermal potential (Oranges in the Snow type stuff) without much effort or cost, for passive heating and cooling, year-round.
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  32. I see these young bucks outdoors, testing their bodies (wrecking their bodies?), and it seems like a great activity for city kids. It's such a young sport, though, most of the 'community' is kids who like loud music and probably smoke weed (but maybe that's my USA bias). Neither the music nor the dope-smoking are big deals to ME, but if I had small kids and I lived on that block, I'm sure I'd look at it, differently. But I think parkour is here to stay, and as the current generation gets a little older, they'll work the system to make parks dedicated to parkour, just like you see skateboarding parks all over the USA. As an old fart, I'd rather see kids toughening themselves up, outside, doing parkour, than loitering around getting into mischief in an urban desert, where the main 'healthy' outdoor activities are organized sports run by grownups. I'm not as much into seeing the unnecessary/gratuitous gymnastics (Look! Double pike-position!), but I enjoy the timed competitions and would LOVE to see a "follow the leader" kind of race. Endlessly fascinating to see the 'solutions' these kids come up with for shaving seconds off their times. Like the first guy to say "Screw that route. I can just jump clear over that obstacle and WIN!" My biggest issue with parkour would be watching live events, where a kid crashes and burns. Edit that stuff out, AFAIC. I hate seeing people get hurt! Like the replays in NFL football, where they do the super-slow-mo of a guy's knee exploding... I don't watch those bits, even though I know a lot of people do, and they'll never stop showing them. Heh. That's fine.
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  33. Even the "base" models have crap I don't want. Give me a basic truck without all the emissions and electronic gadgets.
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  34. Not many people know the history of Randolph Hearst. Manufacturing consent is rooted in this robber baron's career.
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  35. England is such a lovely country, and the canals are a wonderful way to see parts of it. I hope they keep the ones they have and even expand on them. Whether I'm crossing Montana or watching one of your videos, I always imagine myself living in the homes I see along the way. Very idyllic scenery. I think narrowboat living would be nice for a season or a year, but I would eventually want to settle back down as I am, on my little acre. Your satisfaction in getting the black on your keel is matched by my getting the 30x36 foot slab poured underneath the pole building that's going to be my greenhouse.
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  36. Populism has been bad, overall. Populism is what turned the USA into an authoritarian regime, by the people voting to be taken care of, rather than be left alone. I'm not against helping the poor. I AM against the help being concentrated in the hands of a small number of people in Washington, DC. Here's how it works in the USA: You can't get the local governments to operate a nanny government, because they have to live within their means, and they know they will be thrown out of office if they impose taxes high enough to pay for everything, and they can't run budget deficits. So "populists" got the federal government to step in, which it's only too happy to do, and it doesn't mind running budget deficits every year. Just kick the can down the road, but hey. The people are getting their free stuff, so they're happy, even though they complain about the economy and social fabric tearing apart. Instead of "Govern us less," the populists say "Govern us harder, Daddy!" and expect that budgets will magically balance themselves, taxes will be low, and everyone will be happy. Now we're reaching a tipping point, where the majority are saying "Get off our backs" and now, suddenly, Democrats hate populism that has served them so well for re-election. "I'm the guy with the Free Stuff."
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  37. I hear they're trying to bring back the American Chestnut.
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  38. Forced to Windoze 11 by work. It's awful. Next up for me is LINUX.
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  39. Thomas Sowell picked up where Ayn Rand left off, and he's a lot more accessible to the masses than Ayn Rand, who was a pure intellectual and pretty neurotic.
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  40. What a lovely lifestyle. I'm more tied to the land, even though it's only one acre.
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  41. Here's to the return of the giants!
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  42. Everyone knows hobbits are dragon's bane.
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  43. They seek the old aristocratic forms. It turns out to be a very easy thing to do. Just convince people you will care for them like a parent, and the masses will flock to your banner.
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  44. This is what Twitterverse teaches them is "Keeping it real."
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  45. Your arguments are a bit disingenuous given ongoing shelling and missile attacks from Israel's neighbors against Israel, which is a nation under siege. It's bootless to just go back to the most recent atrocity to justify the next planned atrocity. That's a cycle of violence. I'm sympathetic to your "side" for more fundamental fundamental reasons having to do with the reckless use of force abroad by my country, and European countries before that. We could go back further in history and include Asian empires in the discussion. All of that is in the past. The trick is to try to figure out how to make the present and future a little bit better.
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  46. What's the lesson to be taken from this? The wrong lesson, every time. The welfare state is the New Plantation. The War on Drugs is an agent of chaos in poor communities.
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