Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics" channel.

  1.  @FourAussieAcres  Reminds me of Hippies, Woodstock, and psychedelics giving way to disco, Studio 54, and cocaine. From mindfulness and philosophical revolution, to mindlessness and dissolution.
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  2. He still didn't go deep enough to really understand the current development, tech, and recycling.
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  3. It will help transfer the cost of the coming tax breaks from the rich to the American consumer. I would say "live and learn" but for Trump voters that is obviously not an option. Unless of course you are actually one of the very wealthy who puts their own greed above their fake flag waving love of country.
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  4.  @emmettkeyser1110  The statistic show that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than US citizens, at least for the first generation. It is the second and subsequent generations of these immigrants that cause the criminality.
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  5.  @Chr1s-fm6bi  Tesla makes many of it's own electronics and chips, others come from AMD and Samsung. Tesla is even making many of it's own second generation AI chips -- known as Dojo2. Still buying lots of Nvidia though, which means TSMC. Though I do not think they currently own a fab, that may come too.
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  6.  @benchoflemons398  This is a ridiculous and meaningless and diversionary statement. It means nothing and if you think it does indicate something you have a long way to go in the neuron department before you catch up to a dead grape.
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  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtVmjtmDDkE viper vs su30 sm sim. F16 pilots will have to be exceptional to survive. But this guy manages to splash the 30.
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  8. Never trust anyone who bases their opinions on nonsense and states it like it is a commandment from on high.
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  9. You think the USA doesn't have nukes in space? In space, on the ground, under the ground, on the water, under the water, in the air: nukes are everywhere.
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  10. You only think that because you live in another man's delusions. America is doing great unless you accept the media hype as the truth. Try looking out the window.
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  11. Tesla has been building battery storage in Australia faster than anywhere else. Australia has no reason not to become totally green energy in the next few years. Tesla gets most of its lithium from Australia. And Tesla is proving Peter's statements about the impossibility of a meaningful transition to green energy (especially in Europe) about as incorrect as can be. Basically because he is using tried and true metrics to make predictions about a real phase change in human civilization, and in many cases they just don't apply. Just like he seemed to think that Russia would own Ukraine last year.
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  12. Do you really think he reads these comments? If so, I have a bridge to sell you. Wait -- you have obviously already been sold a megalomaniac psychopath in a plain flag wrapper.
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  13. "Conflict averse"? You have got to be kidding. The Swedes are trying to shut down the Tesla company in Denmark even though the Tesla workers in Denmark do not want to go on strike and consider it the best company they ever worked for. That is not "conflict averse" that is a mafia shakedown by a union that operates like a crime organization.
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  14.  @HKim0072  If it was legal it would be cheap and not worth stealing.
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  15. Russia had phalanx type gattling guns on the ships that were blown up by drones. Guess that blows that theory all to hell. Problem was they couldn't really see them. They eventually knew they were coming and tried like hell to gun them down, squirting rounds all over the place. I think they may have got one out of three on the films I saw.
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  16.  @PremusRed  Nope -- they aim by radar.
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  17.  @bob-rogers  It sure as hell didn't work. Two of the drones I saw drive right into the little docking bay at the back of one of those ships before exploding.
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  18. Some truth in that, but Trump is a scumbag, and his proposed policies are just more lies to get in power and never leave.
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  19. Ukrainian special forces are reported to be hunting down Wagner group mercenaries in Africa.
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  20.  @LRRPFco52  You mean "low emissions" if you rig your car computers and cheat on the tests. Diesel is a filthy tech. Not only are its emissions toxic they are carcinogenic. And some of us have to breath that air your diesels are pissing into.
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  21.  @dzcav3  Maybe: where did you get your info? All I can find is a break down into Toyota cars and trucks and neither is close to lowest days of inventory among different brands. Nonetheless, I kind of feel sorry for anyone who buys a hybrid. It can really only be done out of lack of information about the whole deal. Increased complexity is not the way to go when more efficient and robust systems are available. And soon they will be available at the same price point as the RAV. Actually this is already the case in Europe because of imports like the Chinese MG. Eventually they will adopt the superior system when they realize the advantages and that the drawbacks are largely imaginary.
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  22.  @dzcav3  Hybrids are efficient if you don't really know what the word "efficient" means. ICE engines deliver about 40% of energy from the combustion as usable energy and the rest as waste heat. And to make matters worse, some of the usable energy has to be used to get rid of the waste heat. While electric engines deliver over 90% of their energy as usable mechanical energy. Which makes it kind of simple to determine what qualifies as efficient. If you drive on your little gas engine, like most hybrid owners do, most of the time, you are half as efficient as a pure EV plus you are more complex, more likely to catch on fire, and are hauling around a system you aren't using. But you do get more miles to a gallon than a pure EV.
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  23.  @dzcav3  To say that a hybrid Toyota is analogous to a diesel electric locomotive is just stupid. It is not extremely efficient, not even close. The truth is very simple: When you make an outdated Rube Goldberg whirlygig system like a combustion engine more complex, overall it is a losing proposition compared to an simple, truly more efficient system like an EV. Look: even the challenged can understand that a system that has over five hundred moving parts for every moving part in an electric motor and is not even half as efficient (as efficiency is actually measured by physicists) is just not a good choice. Unless you truly live in Timbuktu and have no charging infrastructure or a house that you can charge from. Right now the old OEMs are pushing this disinformation in every media they can because they cannot compete and want to live another year or two. While behind the scenes Toyota is attempting to adapt Tesla manufacturing tech as fast as they can. But they are still incapable of producing anything approaching the model Y they disassembled and called "A masterpiece of engineering."
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  24.  @dzcav3  So why don't you take into account the "total system efficiency"? That would include the all the expenses of pumping, cracking, and distribution of petroleum, not just the losses in transmission on the grid of electricity. As far as Stellantis and Nissan are concerned: bring it up when it is a thing, which it probably will never be, like Toyota's famous invisible solid state batteries. By far most electricity is generated by burning natural gas, not so bad as coal, but not that great either. And the USA is the biggest producer of petrol because of fracking -- However that petrol must be exported to be processed because no industrial infrastructure in the USA is able to process light sweet crude. Perhaps you missed the announcement by Toyota naming the Tesla model Y "An engineering masterpiece that we are not presently capable of reproducing. But they are trying and in the meantime spreading the disinfo about hybrids. This is so typical, like the belief that EVs catch on fire much more than ICE vechiles, while the truth is that ICE vehicles go up in flames much more frequently and hybrids are by far the worst in this category. Your former comments are far from "correct" as you did not include the real cost of petrol. And as I pointed out: if one is charging their EV with dirty electricity it is a choice they made out of indolence. You pretend to be objective but are far from it.
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  25. What the hell is a "heritage American"? About ten percent of the pop of the USA genetics from the whole of the UK. The largest ethnic group in America is German. You can consider yourself a can opener if you want to, just as meaningful.
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  26. Task and Purpose claims that Der Spiegel has uncovered secret NATO docs that claim they are planning to move 800,000 Troops to the Russian border.
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  27. To me it looks like the railroad bridge is still OK, and only the highway section of it collapsed.
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  28. Sure just ignore climate change, it's probably a left wing gambit to install a woke dictatorship anyhow. (Irony warning for the irony impaired)
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  29.  @Jay-vt1mw Sure, because the wizard said so. . . Except he has no way of knowing the next breakthrough that will change everything, many of which are already on the horizon. And you don't need pop growth if Teslabots and the like are working all the factory work, and you don't even really need lawyers now if they would just allow AI to work in the law. While a lawyer would charge hundreds if not thousands or in the case of the Musk ripoff -- millions of dollars per hour, AI could get it done in seconds for pennies.
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  30.  @kinbolluck476 And that would be a faulty argument becauset if they don't have stuff they aren't going to be able to "come for you" unless you let them.
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  31.  @Skunk106  They are hardly hard to recycle.
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  32.  @bobstrayer9004  That was an announcement.
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  33. Where I live they are only interesting in the news media. If you look out the window it's interesting if you like squirrels or joggers and that's about it.
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  34. The kind of people who call themselves conservatives but are really just butt sore tin horn radicals of the most ridiculous kind, are not capable of understanding what is really going on in the world or in their senseless heads.
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  35. That is exactly the reason I never became interested in Twitter.
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  36. All things green will not fail in Germany. EVs will do fine, as will battery recyclijng, and battery manufacturing.
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  37.  @daniellarson3068  Tesla released its repair manuals for free.
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  38. The last statement: "They fucked around. And now they are gonna find out. . . . . . . Just in case you care.
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  39. No tit for tat there, that's for sure. Not only can't Americans buy land in China, the Chinese can't buy land in China.
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  40. Guess which president's one move was to cut taxes for the richest Americans while diving the country into debt faster than any president in history had. Because that is the deal he cut with the real money behind MAGA -- Robert Mercer (founder of Renaissance hedge fund) who would rather have the USA fall into ruin than pay taxes on the fortune that his HFT programs siphoned off the stock market. He is the real money behind Trump, and Bannon, and the hundreds of fake news organizations that sprang up and called the real news fake. And three types of people fell for it, some of the rich (because of his tax cuts. Remember Trump said to them "I have just made all of you a lot richer") Those sociopathic sycophants who smelled the possibility of being part of a new power elite that replaced the old one. And his biggest group of supporters -- the small town rubes - It wasn't the first time a NYC conman pulled the wool over their eyes and it won't be the last -- they are mostly just unbelievably ill-informed and dumb. Take for instance that Trump cultists moved form Fox New to even more radical purveyors of lies like NewMax etc. Fox was bad enough, a study at the U of Maryland found that people who had relied on Fox News for information knew less about what was really happening than people who did not follow the news at all. This is only possible because they are being lied to continually, in just the way they want to be lied to.
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  41. "The ground" is in space.
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  42.  @gomertube  lol -- live under a rock do you?
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  43. Prohibition created the worlds first criminal millionaires. The current drug policy has created the world first criminal trillionaires, with enough silver to spread around everywhere there is any hint of a sane drug policy that would put an end to a profit level that the laws create. Now with bitcoin it is hard to see how our drug laws will not eventually lead to more and worse of the same.
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  44. The law is often not impartial of just.
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  45.  @huntermad5668  The best Chinese EV OEMs are those that have copied Tesla's manufacturing tech to the T : gigacasting, structural battery pack, out of the box assembly, their attempts at FSD, etc. And even then the only one making a profit on each unit, other than Tesla is BYD, and they just barely are. The best selling EV in China is the Tesla model Y. People seem to forget that little fact. The best selling car of any type in many countries such as Norway is the same. The best selling car in the world is also the same Tesla model Y. The more intelligent the population, the more Teslas per cap that are sold. Here we have the all pickup, and no cattle, coal rollers in their trucks that kill a dozen people because of their mass for every one person they save because of their size. We are basically idiots. Then came the Tesla bots and all Peter's theories are out the window.
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  46.  @SignalCorps1  Wrong! The lesson from WW1 is that GB and the USA should never have got involved. Then Germany would have won when the Russian Revolution broke out, and Europe would have ended up quite like the EU is today. No WW2, no concentration camps, no Hitler, and no iron curtain falling across eastern Europe for fifty odd years. But we couldn't have that because the British used mobilization as a an excuse to stop the Germans from building a railroad from central Europe into the Middle East oil fields. The public in the USA was manipulated from an antiwar stance to pro-war to the point of lynching Germans in the streets by the first use of subconscious motivation techniques by Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04&t=2751s
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  47.  @TogoshiTanuki  No, he's not, Poland, no he's not.
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  48. So hard for the exponentially challenged to see around the next corner.
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  49.  @frequentlycynical642  The mafia used Cuba to wash the proceeds from the US mainland as well. Gambling, both legal and not, drugs, loans, the whole bit, and pot and speed may have been coming along, but heroin was the money maker. No doubt the economy in Cuba, in general received more from sugar, but as to whether or not the total income from sugar production was even in the same order of magnitude as the take from organized crime on the mainland and Cuba is something that nobody outside of Lansky would know. And maybe not even Myer knew.
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  50. So, admit it or not, the market even rules the commies. Works out great for them until they get "creative".
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