Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Zeihan on Geopolitics"
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Tesla seems to be doing more than fine in their China giga. Sales are up domestically and internationally from there, they are about to release the Highland model from China, and they have been seeking approval for a major expansion of manufacturing facilities. CATL has built a new battery plant right next to Tesla giga Shanghai, (wonder why). Though to be fair Tesla has also been initiating new Tera plants like crazy, the one in Monterrey Mexico will be twice a big as the biggest factory in the USA (Tesla giga Austin) and there are ongoing negotiations with, Canada, Spain, India, Indonesia, and probably places I don't know about to build additional plants. Tesla is also the only American company operating in China that has been allowed total ownership of it's operations, at least until a few months ago when it seems other companies have been cut a similar deal.
Yep, guess that green tech will never work out. . . . But now it can't help but work out, Tesla cars are now less expensive to buy than comparable gas cars, and much much less expensive to own and operate. This despite the Musk haters and gobblers of the lies instigated by short sellers, OEM ICE investors and tier 1-3 suppliers, the oil shitheads, union shills, the mass media trying to shake T down for ad revenue and the general knuckle-dragging troglodytes that drive dualy diesel pickups and put something in the bed from Home Depot once or twice a year, while they pollute the air we breath with toxic carcinogenic fumes which are responsible for millions of repertory related deaths each year and drag a useless ton of iron around with them everywhere they go because they want to pretend to be cowboys or good old boys or some other stupid shit.
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Loki is not from India. Bengal originated in California as a hybrid between an Asian leopard cat, a small wild cat found throughout south east Asia and various domestic breeds.. Your Bengal probably has very little leopard cat in it, and you should be happy about that. I have owned various leopard cats in the past and bred bengals when they first appeared for sale. Bengals were initially breed as investigations into transferring the immunity to feline leukemia into domestic cats.
The thing that sets Bengals apart for other domestics is the coat pattern, as the other prime characteristics of the Leopard cat, such as small round delicate ears, lack shoulder striping, and a viscous demeanor have largely been lost.
If your Bengal glitters in sun light, you are fortunate, as this is one of the key anomalous factors that seemed to develop from this hybridization. They seem to think it came from the leopard cats, but I have never seen a leopard cat with glitter.
If you have never seen a bemgal with glitter, and the cat that momentarily appeared in this video does not appear to have the glitter gene though that could be because of the lighting, you really haven't seen a great Bengal. Here's a pic of a bengal kitten with some glitter. Though it really does not show up in photos. https://bengalcatdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/Lamba.jpg
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I think you made some valid and some interesting point. Except the one about Peter's age being the real reason for his attitude. Like Bill Maher espouses: ageism is the last hold-out of prejudice. With the amount that Peter walks and the funds I imagine he has the ability to allocate, he may be around for centuries if Kurzwell's predictions run true to form, and so far they seem to be.
I like Peter's input on geopolitics based on demographics and geography, but when it comes to innovation and technological progress and it's repercussions, I tend more toward Tony Seba's views. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJKTYc_v-I&t=387s
I personally never liked Twitter. Perhaps because like yourself I find it stifling to be limited to a small number of characters. I ditched facebook a few months after I got on it, when a friend in the IT tech explained the extent of their inference engines to me a decade or so ago. I still do use their local marketplace feature, but that's it, and I now have all their trackers and impossitions on my privacy defeated. I never use google search, only duck duck, and always use a VPN for everything, both on my PC and phone and have since they were first availible (Nord being the best I have come across) YouTube is my only indulgence and I have their off-site trackers and inference engines gelded. And of course I never see any ads on YouTube or I would not use it at all.
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Depends where you want to live. I am selling a house with hardwood floors throughout, cedar closet, four bedrooms, a detached garage, fairly new roof, all new insulated windows, a huge fenced yard, high cellings, the best heating system I have ever experienced, baseboard hot water, in an area where unskilled workers start at low to mid twenties, and I will be lucky to get eighty thousand dollars for it
. I have met people who moved here form California (small town east central PA with basically no crime) just so they could afford a home.
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No dude, the solution is to take the profit out of drugs, by decriminalizing them and making cocaine available to the fools who use it cheap. At one point when I was young I had a job doing fix-up and painting around the house of a retired general of the US armed forces. His wife had prescriptions for both cocaine and opium, legally as nose drops and paregoric. She had bottles of them in virtually every room of the house and she seemed to function quite normally. The whole illegal drugs thing is a scam, it is total bullshit, and the only solution that works is decriminalization and gov sponsored clinics where the drugs can be had and used safely like they have in Switzerland. Unless you want the drug barons and their banker launderers to continue to corrupt every facet of our Republic from Congress down to the beat cop level, and the incredibly ineffective enforcement apparatus which has proven that they can do nothing of significance regarding the problem except increase their own power and funding and shit on low level street level creeps.
When you make something like pot or opium illegal you make it so profitable that it will be smuggled and sold successfully no matter what enforcement techniques you use. It is natural to use and want to use drugs, cocaine is like coffee, only actually less toxic than pure caffeine. The worst drug by far as far as health and society is concerned is alcohol. You could use medically pure opioids most of your life without serious consequences, not so with alcohol. The reason drugs are illegal is power and money is derived from their prohibition, but the lies have the public in fear and no one has the courage to stand up because the bastards that profit from the prohibition have everything by the balls.
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That would help a great deal, but , the solution is to take the profit out of drugs, by decriminalizing them and making cocaine available to the fools who use it cheap. At one point when I was young I had a job doing fix-up and painting around the house of a retired general of the US armed forces. His wife had prescriptions for both cocaine and opium, legally as nose drops and paregoric. She had bottles of them in virtually every room of the house and she seemed to function quite normally. The whole illegal drugs thing is a scam, it is total bullshit, and the only solution that works is decriminalization and gov sponsored clinics where the drugs can be had and used safely like they have in Switzerland. Unless you want the drug barons and their banker launderers to continue to corrupt every facet of our Republic from Congress down to the beat cop level, and the incredibly ineffective enforcement apparatus which has proven that they can do nothing of significance regarding the problem except increase their own power and funding and shit on low level street level creeps.
When you make something like pot or opium illegal you make it so profitable that it will be smuggled and sold successfully no matter what enforcement techniques you use. It is natural to use and want to use drugs, cocaine is like coffee, only actually less toxic than pure caffeine. The worst drug by far as far as health and society is concerned is alcohol. You could use medically pure opioids most of your life without serious consequences, not so with alcohol. The reason drugs are illegal is power and money is derived from their prohibition, but the lies have the public in fear and no one has the courage to stand up because the bastards that profit from the prohibition have everything by the balls.
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