Youtube comments of SkyRiver (@SkyRiver1).

  1. NO need for the click bait, it only make you seem like some low-class scammer: a missile is not a "nuke" missile unless it has a nuclear warhead. A hypersonic missile without a nuclear warhead is just a very expensive way to blow up a building. FYI: hypersonic missiles must decelerate when approaching the target proximity, or they are unable to track the target with radar, IR, GPS -- whatever. Some are able to do evasive maneuvers at this point, but are also vulnerable to interception by conventional means, as well as hypersonic anti-missiles-missiles. All ICBMs are hypersonic, but most, currently lack the ability to decelerate and maneuver. The USA abandoned its own hypersonic program decades ago, or so they say. The US robotic space vehicle the X-37B is also hypersonic. But in the end, if worse comes to worse, we may well find out that speed just doesn't matter to defensive laser and other beam type weapons, unless of course you are warping nukes to the target FTL.
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  2.  @lordkonzilla7890  Russia's demise is inevitable unless there is a major shift in demographics.
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  3. A mask is not a political statement -- it's an intelligence test.
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  4. Micro-expressions do not lie. All of the cable news reporters, that is ALL of them, looked like they had just lost their favorite sex toy, or someone had told them that Santa Clause doesn't exist when it became apparent that Bernie was going to win in Iowa. Then they proceeded to demonstrate their singular super power in which they actually lie faster than they talk. Some kind of lyin dog-faced pony-soldier swarm -- FUken Aaaamazzen.
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  5.  America First Highlights  No proof you are an asshole but the evidence strongly indicates you are.
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  6. The reason the police get away with abuse, violence against innocents, and murder, murder, murder, is simple. The power elite do not want the police to trouble over repercussions when the villagers show up with the pitch forks at one of their many houses. They just want them to shoot them without hesitation. That's why they like to hire crypto-fascists and latent psychopaths for the force. Police work is a magnet for the reptile-brained idiots who like to push other people around and not pay for it.
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  7.  @caniblmolstr4503  Natural resources.
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  8. In case you don't know: Peter does a video everyday, very early, at Zeihan on Geopolitics here on YouTube. They are often very stimulating and the discussions on his page are great. Oh, . . . and it's free.
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  9. The Amazon isn't the only place that Chevron destroyed the environment and the lives of local people.
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  10. People's ability to absorb nutrients from foods varies tremendously. In fact the same person eating the same food also varies tremendously depending on their age, what else they have eaten, what they have been eating, the time of day they eat, and so many variables that it is complex beyond the ability of anyone to quantify in any accurate manner. This being the case, and it is, one of the more significant factors is the make-up of an individuals microbiome. The microbiome varies so much depending upon another host of factors that scientists are continuously amazed by the degree of variation among people, peoples, and within an individual. For instance a person who is on a carnivore diet will be amazingly deficient in the ability to absorb nutrients from vegetables in comparison to someone who is omnivorous and even more in comparison to someone who has been vegetarian for years. It is tempting to make simplistic assumptions and they almost always end up being incorrect or at least seriously skewed regarding reality. But hey, that apparently is what YouTube and social media in general is all about.
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  11.  @andreasweber7828  An alligator that has been cut down to size by little drone boats near Ukraine. An alligator whose only functional tooth blows it's own head off if it ever attempts to use it.
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  12. Your videos explained a mystery to me. A woman visiting from China was next to me in a yoga class. I had an injury and could not follow along for every pose, but had to adapt to my injury. So I was improvising on some poses instead of doing what everyone else was. Every time I had to improvise I could swear it had an almost physical impact on the Chinese woman. It was as if she was experiencing some kind of physical aggression. Finally in the middle of the class she stomped out in an apparent rage, for no reason at all. Everyone was mystified and several people asked me what was up after the class. Your explanation of the collective mindset in China is in line with my hypothesis that this woman was so intolerant of any display of individuality that my adapted exercises made her throw a hissy-fit. So who would want to live somewhere were the spirit of creativity is crushed socially?
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  13. Whose responsible? Really? This is a question? Everyone knows who is responsible by the effects on the war, except of course for the Russian trolls, and even they know but are payed to pretend otherwise.
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  14.  @zhiro_3  Sing means to "sing a song" or "sing with joy". You meant to write "sign". But no matter, your view is naive and has nothing to do with the manner in which China, Australia, or the USA actually conducts it's international policies.
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  15. The most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 12 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell. The Americdan Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada. The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. A truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon western tech they no longer have access to.
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  16. The salaries of university administration and various positions (especially some coach salaries) is beyond reason and are vulgar by all reasonable ethical standards.
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  17. IMHO the most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 16 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell, but I kinda doubt it, according to Wikipedia it's range is 18 miles. The American Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it and now the Germans have too. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada, but they pale in comparison to the capabilities of the German Panzerhaubitzen 2000 that the Dutch and Germans are supplying (unfortunately in extremely limited numbers). See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_DS6UvZXPo&t=148s The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, -- baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. This would be a truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIPNElDkns&t=38s Estimates by Rand and other think tanks estimate that Russia has already used more than 70% of their advanced guided missiles in Ukraine and they will not be able to replace them in a timely fashion. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common towed artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon tech they may no longer have access to. In any event, even if Russia should win in Ukraine, and realistically there is very good chance of this, Russia is totally screwed in the long term. See here to find out why Peter Zeihan finds this to be the case in one of his many videos on the Geopop YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwPMtmuuVNw&t=176s As he said, "A hypersonic missile without a nuclear warhead is just a very expensive way to blow up a building." Let's hope they keep up the stupidity they have been exhibiting in this area, with their "terror weapons".
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  18. The key word being "arguably", because it certainly is not true. The Wagner Group first appeared in 2014 so just for a reality check, the Taliban (which at the time was also a non-state armed group) appeared around 1994. They now own a country. That is just one example of many, that would further prove that you point about being arguable was correct, the rest -- not so much. Or take The Islamic State ISIS -- 1999 and still in the same ongoing war against everyone -- that is some experience. Though Wagner certainly has more juice than Constellis Holdings.
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  19. The most insane response to blocking aid: sanctions that will harm the very people that the aid was meant for. Pres Bush blocked aid from Venezuela to the freezing and impoverished residents of the northeast USA when they offered to pay for heating oil for poor US citizens. REMEMBER? It was the second Bush and Obama that had problems with the aid. You remember Obama: the great pretender now fat on wall street money. You remember Bush, the idiot who disposed of our budget surplus by blowing it up along with Iraq. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scgsTsOUrBQ http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/342972
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  20. When you say we, you really don't mean it, unless you are one of the power-elite who actually determines that covert and overt action of government resources. I know I am not part of your we, and I doubt very much if you are either.
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  21. Woke is a parody of awakened, by people who are actually clueless.
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  22.  @OGPatriot03  Wow, . . . you equate a measure that is an attempt to deal with a pandemic with a terrorist attack. Is it just that you never learned how to logically reason or that you are just a wannabe demagogue? I had a cousin who sounded like you. He thought it was all a farce, to rob him of his freedom to chose paper or plastic. He refused to get vaccinated. He died last week of covid. He was smart like you. A veritable legend in his own mind. Like you. Was it Ambrose Bierce who during Civil War times defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel? All you have to do is look around and see who it is that does all the killing of other Americans to know that it's still true. The right wing-nut radicals in the USA are the most dangerous terrorist organizations for the average American. I suggest you resist them like you spout off about.
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  23. Do you remember how absolutely rabid the authorities were about getting all the steel out of the site and shipping it off to be melted? I found that very suspicious at the time and am still waiting on a satisfactory explanation.
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  24. The Mercers deserve a documentary similar to the one that they sponsored "Clinton Money" to look deep into every little aspect of the Rainman's idiotic genius. Idiot savant gone bad.
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  25. "cosmetic malfunction" gotta love the writing.
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  26. So how else do you think Trump got into Wharton? He transferred to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, largely due to his interview with an admissions officer who was a high-school classmate of his older brother Fred. Although some reports say the admissions officer was a classmate of Trumps father Fred.
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  27. Pennsylvania loves Bernie.
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  28. CNN and MSNBC report: In the race between Bernie and Buttegieg: Pete came in second over-all but Bernie only managed to place next to last.
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  29. The tweets from Donald Lame Duck should officially be renamed "quacks". He is like Donald Duck when he gets so bend out of shape that he just quacks his head off. Quack on lame Donald Duck.
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  30. Concerning the contamination of baby foods: All rice that is grown on land that was previously used to grow cotton have arsenic contamination. If you eat rice, use rice that is grown on land that was never used to produce cotton, because as a non-food crop, dangerous pesticides are legally used on cotton and the arsenic is left in the soil and then taken up and sequestered in rice that is grown on that land. To my knowledge California rice is safe.
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  31. The most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 12 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell. The Americdan Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada. The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. A truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon western tech they no longer have access to.
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  32. Trump can rearrange the deck chairs all he wants, the Titanic is still going down.
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  33. Prediction: We will figure out exactly how they cheated, then we will figure out the next way that they cheated, and the one after that, and so on: with a factual and rational narrative about the qualities of people who would do such things. We will even say, "They said it couldn't happen here.": out of ironic gallows humor. Maybe at times their cheating will be so outrageous that hundreds of thousand of people will march or occupy something, but amazingly, almost miraculously Mitch and Lindsey, and the rest of Caligula JR's little unholy Greek chorus will retain their offices, and they will go on cheating and bullying and claiming that the law is what ever they think it is at the moment. And we will figure it all out. We have known forever that it would be best to get all money out of politics if the most ethical and fair government is what you want. We have known forever that proportional representation is superior to winner-takes-all seesaws. We have known that the banks are incapable of regulating themselves and that the wealth of the nation is being sucked up by the military industrial professional political worker complex, that the drug war is a farce that has created the first billionaire criminal organizations. In our hollowed out lives, news has become entertainment. And the fantasyland they present to the public is a poor substitute for what should have been the golden destiny of mankind on earth and in regions beyond. Bernie understands that campaign funding is the lynch-pin for all the legalized corruption. That is why, I am willing to give up my AR15s, overlook my feelings about rewarding people for violating immigration regulations, and even bow out of opinions regarding abortion since I am not a woman and cannot put myself in the place of one considering such a decision. That is how fundamentally important campaign finance reform is to me and the future of the USA. It's not sexy but it is THE issue upon which the fair treatment of all other issues depend.
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  34. We have mob boss rules instead of government.
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  35. This is bull, there are hundreds if not thousands of ways to kill people while making them feel wonderful the entire time. These bastards just wanted to torture someone with more than their own ineptitude for a change.
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  36.  @Blackjack701AD  I personally do not like Biden, and Trump far less, but one thing I do know is that you have no facts to back up your opinion. Unless you consider lies to be facts.
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  37. I tend to agree with you, but know that I shouldn't. One thing that history and even current events and especially the market demonstrates with such blinding proficiency that most are actually blind to it, is that NOBODY knows what the future actually holds in any meaningfully actionable detail -- some AI directed logarithms seem to come close in their high frequency arbitrage of the market or game play, but even they miss all the time in specific trades or moves. In the media you have a hundred voices that make various predictions based on diverse yet extremely limited perceived variables and then only the one or two voices that guessed most correctly are reported and remembered to any noteworthy degree. That's in the case of the actual future: in the many possible imaginary futures: predictions are easy because what "would have happened" is a non-result with a faulty equation used as a rationalization for it's generation. Nobody knows what -- would-have-happened-- if. And there is absolutely no way to confirm it one way or another. That's why it's so easy for us to think we are right about such imaginings. As an example: how many of our great planners and strategic thinkers predicted in the sixties that of all the populations on earth the communist Vietnamese would hold Americans in highest regard? Or that the Chinese, whom were so backward that they were attempting to produce steel as cottage industry and experiencing such famine that the people had stripped the bark off of trees for food would be a technological powerhouse? Or that some dumb-ass from Texas would destroy the American economy by attacking a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11 based on manufactured "evidence", and trying to nation-build in the stupidest place to try to nation-build on earth (Afghanistan) so that his handler's former corporation could get those juicy cost-plus contracts?
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  38. I watch most of the good non bogus Tesla channels, but Munro Live is like the icing on the cake. Cheers
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  39. What nonsense: this was a gift to the Tesla fan boys like myself that bought the dip at 822. Life is good.
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  40. The real question is: Did you ever really need a cop for anything? In my seventy odds years I never once needed a cop and neither did anyone I know. The cops are not there for you, they are there to collect money for the tax system we call court. They are there to protect the riches of the owners. They are there to get free blow jobs from strippers and free meals anywhere. They are there to lord it up over you and display the petty authority and special above the law status that they have garnered over the years. They are there because they are dying to shoot someone and know they will get away with it. If you trust any of them you are a fool.
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  41. I have now watched the entire interview and: I have never seen a more evident case of "Can't see the forest for the trees" than in Lemon"s continual repetition of questions that attempt to redefine what Musk said in spite of the fact that he stated clearly exactly what he meant to say.
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  42. @Juan Carrero My heart is with the much abused people of the Philippines. It's about time they caught a break.
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  43. And the biggest problem for China is huge numbers of old people and very few youth to support them.
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  44. Looks great, but as always with the corporate media: too little too late. When this was actually needed, nobody was speaking up for fear of being ostracized and loosing everything.
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  45. Brother you ain't seen suffering like you would see in a post-American world.
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  46. I expect as much to happen by the release of the Pandora Papers as did by the release of the Panama Papers: basically nothing.
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  47. "Workers required to go to work" = slavery.
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  48. If you are going to blame someone: once again the British did it.
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  49. So good to see Tesla hiring young talent before the status quo gets to crush their dreams, spirit, and creativity.
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  50. Women of color will save this nation. Good start -- thank you. Kudos to the great state of Georgia. I knew you had it in you.
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  51. The power elite often likes to draw parallels between the USA and the Roman Republic. A major difference is that if one of the power elite in the Roman Republic lead the nation into some foreign military intrigue, they would pay for the entire campaign and lead it themselves, while scores of these same power elite would be personally involved in the fighting or at least be on the battlefield. If Bush had done what he caused in Iraq and Afghanistan in Rome, He would have been personally ruined instead of being invited to give 200k dinner talks to the fools who profited from his shenanigans. He also would have been disgraced and banished. Even the plebs in Rome were too in touch with a natural sense of justice to put up with the abuse that the American public eats on a routine basis.
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  52. Future Headline: Maxwell dies from Corona Virus while in custody. She will never testify.
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  53. A few days ago Munro asserted that hybred capacitor/battery power packs were the next big thing. Elon Musk has claimed that the future belongs to hyper-capacitors, and apparently this was his last field of academic research before he left school. It's something you don't hear about much, but Munro seemed enthusiastic and quite sure it was a thing: a major one.
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  54.  @joerogue231  Nope: The US withdrew from the Vietnam conflict because of political repercussion at home. In Korea, the USA refrained from using nukes which it could have done without international repercussions of any note.
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  55.  @RussCR5187  I firmly believe that the number one thing that can be done is real campaign finance reform that disallows all political contributions entirely. Many think this is an unachievable goal. It may be. The power-elite may never be able to be motivated to give up their method of control and corruption. But I feel exactly like you do. Democracy has become unworkable in the face of a 24/7 deluge of disinformation and spin. Ideally I would like to see a system were the officials became so by demonstrating superior abilities and idealism and judgement. Perhaps though scientifically designed series of tests and virtual real-time scenarios that are public and continually upgraded and vetted. But hey, as is, I despise both the republicans and democrats.
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  56. I had to copy and paste this comment for my thoughtful friends here on DN. I really don't know the original author so whoever you are -- bravo. The “billionaire” who hides his tax returns. The “genius” who hides his college grades. The “businessman” who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 years. The “playboy” who pays for sex. The “Christian” who doesn’t go to church. The “philanthropist” who defrauds charity. The “patriot” who dodged the draft. And attacks dead Veterans and their widows. The “innocent man” who refuses to testify. Trump Translations "Many People have told me" = Voices in my head and fictional people have complimented me "A lot of people don't know" = I just learned something most people already knew "Believe me" = I just lied "In Fact" = I'm about to lie "He's a great guy" = I will deny ever knowing this person after they begin to tell the truth about me "MAGA" = Making my pockets fatter off the American tax payers "Nobody knew" = Everyone knew except me "Huge" = moderate to below average in size "Loser" = someone who makes me feel inferior due to their talent or accomplishments "Policy Briefing" = Turning on Fox News "Liar" = Someone telling the truth about me "Fake News" = Real news
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  57. Better test drive this one, on rough roads and sharp turns. Competition and dirt bikes do not reduce every gram of unsprung weight for no reason. Motors in the wheels are a massive amount of unsprung weight.
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  58. Not just organic oats, but organic oat groats is the way to go. It's not the "run off" of arsenic that elevates the level in rice. It's the fact that rice is often grown on land that is or was used to grow cotton, which is a non food crop so toxic pesticides are able to be used, and the arsenic is left in the soil then sequestered by the rice grown on the same land. Basically just google the dirty dozen and the clean fifteen for a list of non-organic foods high and low in toxins.
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  59. McConnell dying from COVID 19 would be cosmic justice.
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  60. There is nothing stopping people from repairing or modding their own Teslas. They can even get the official shop manuals free from Tesla. I guess you haven't really checked the dealer prices for OEM ICE parts lately.
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  61. Invest in the development of medicinal psychotropics like psilocibin, and mescaline. Two substances that apparently Peter needs to use desperately in order to clear up his vision on illegal recreational molecules.
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  62.  @GlennTXstate10  If you think that anyone is making EVs on the same level of engineering as Tesla you really don't know much about EVs. No one has "caught up", in fact Tesla is continuously pulling further ahead of everyone. Other OEMs may offer superficial frills and style to decorate their EV platforms that are at the least, five years behind Tesla, and in many areas they will never even equal today's Tesla. Aside from BYD, who is far behind Tesla in every metric and about equal in price now, no one is able to produce an EV at a profit except Tesla. There is a reason why Tesla is the safest car in a collision, has the highest customer loyalty, and whose customers on average are the happiest with their autos. You can believe all the fake news put out by the various commercial media who are hungering for the billions of dollars that Tesla does not have to spend on ads, like GM over 2 billion on ads last year, but you are just being manipulated by people who have a pecuniary interest in making Tesla look bad, so it will be forced to pay the advertising vig like everyone else. But it doesn't have to play that game, just because their cars are superior in engineering and some people care more about that than having lots of body styles on already out-dated platforms.
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  63. Donald Lame Duck -- "Quack quack quack quack". . . ad nauseam.
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  64. I guess the bright side, if there is one, which there really isn't, would be the effect of social Darwinism on the right-wing nuts who will not wear masks as a political statement. A mask is not a political statement -- it's an intelligence test.
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  65.  @Tac_3D  You must have an irrepressible desire to demonstrate your idiocy in public.
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  66. Tesla's continual optimization of all components of their EVs makes it kind of ridiculous to try to time a purchase to include the latest improvements. No matter when you buy, in the next week there will be further improvements, so you may as well just buy when you want a car (in a few months) because if you are waiting for the ultimate model Y or whatever, you will be waiting forever.
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  67. The most despised woman in America says that nobody likes the candidate who has received more donations than any other in all of history. I would say that Clinton is in desperate need of an intervention -- but probably has no real friends.
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  68. Bad enough to be brutalized by routine by police, but to then have the same public pay the taxes that settle the claims of brutality, sounds like three card monty to me.
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  69.  @OnkelGetreide91  Losing via lack of political will is not the same as losing because of inability to prevail in an all out war. While the valor of the Vietnamese is laudatory, both China and the USA had and continue to have the ability to totally destroy any meaningful level of civilization in Vietnam, then take it as a territory, if that were their goal.
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  70. The most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 12 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell. The American Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada. The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. A truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon western tech they no longer have access to.
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  71. We would probably have to hire our police from Canada.
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  72. Well it seems simple to me. If all the Teslas that are produced are sold: and they are, and they are continually ramping up production: which they are, it is only obvious that their market share will be increasing.
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  73.  @paranoid1377  You are correct China doesn't want war, if they can get what they want by other means, as they did in Tibet.
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  74.  @didiprangsak1757  Yeah you should probably not come here.
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  75.  @michaeldavis3819  That is not true. The real evidence lies in the policy that Switzerland adopted. Certain areas of the USA have tried decriminalization and it has been a fiasco, that is because they thought that all you had to do was make the use of illegal drugs a non-offense to use. That was naive. You need the whole program that was successful in Switzerland. But strangely enough, though Calvinism and the more known attitudes of Puritanism originated in Switzerland, the population has evolved beyond such draconian ideals and viewed the problem objectively, unlike the knee-jerk reaction represented by your own comment. It works -- punishment does not work, it only corrupts the police and alienates people who are caught up in the system -- many of them being framed to advance the careers of bad cops. Also note that since MJ was decriminalized in Sweden the teenage use of it has fallen off a cliff.
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  76.  @free22  The cunning bullies become cops, the stupid ones become thugs.
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  77.  @abhishekprasad000  Wasn't there also something about the way the projects were financed being bled by corrupt officials and middlemen who really had no interest in them being viable?
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  78. You may have heard about Centralia PA. It is a town in the old anthracite coal region of the Appalachians, where the entire town was evacuated and given new homes because of the underground coal fires. I drive through there twice a week, and strip mining coal is still very active, enough to keep the highways a dirty mess with coal haulers dragging black culm onto the highways from their dirt roads continually, and the toxic black cloud you have to drive through to get past them. It is literally a black cloud that overhangs everything. BUT if you were to stop on the west side of Centralia (which is now about five or six houses who refused to leave, surrounded by empty lots where their former neighbors row houses were bulldozed (they never did get the underground fire put out) and you stopped right at the nearest strip mine operation and their filthy lots full of giant haulers that are too big to use on roads, and you looked back at where Centrailia used to be, you would notice that on the mountain ridge to the east , right above another mining operation, is the first of a series of wind turbines that generate electricity, that start there and follow that mountain ridge for a good twenty miles or so. Coal is death, and then people wonder why they are dying of all kinds of respiratory and metabolic diseases that are caused by coal and ICE vehicles.
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  79. In the sixties we saw that "There is no problem until there is trouble." The power elite and their misanthropic syncopates are not only out of touch, they are objectively insane in their behavior and the policies they establish. We thirst for justice, and after the possibility of a golden future for mankind. But they have no thirst for justice -- because -- they write the legislation, and it has become a legislation of privilege and legalized crimes, that is ultimately enforced by low level sell-outs and authoritarian types who have a taste for using the petty authority granted to them to push people around, lie in court and get away with murder. Or at the very least, stand with the blue mob's code of omerta. Now people say, myself included, there are a lot of good cops. True that, but bad cops are just as common now, and the good cops ain't doin' shit about it. So functionally they are all pretty bad in total. I don't know about you, but I have never in my seventy years needed a cop for anything. I've reported thefts: nothing came of it. I have however gotten a few traffic tickets when I was young, for basically having a hot car and a pretty girl next to me. There was no need at all to break the law, they just were so full of hatred/envy -- Really. I was arrested for pot in college by an undercover scumbag that everyone knew was an undercover scumbag, who simply turned in drugs to a state narcotics officer and said I sold them to him. Like everyone else the scumbag did the same thing to, I was given the choice of pleading guilty and doing a few weeks in jail or facing over ten years in prison. I am not black, I was not poor, I didn't even have very long hair, which was a real reason for discrimination back then. When I was in high school I wore a black armband for the VietNam moratorium. I was told to leave school for the day. I went to a local dinner and a young off duty cop asked me why I wasn't in school. I told him and he threw me to the ground and started strangling me. Every cop I have ever seen testify in court, just out and out lied. They had it all written down, what didn't happen, with such impressive notes about times and what not I don't think that my experience is anomalous. I think it is pretty representative of most people. Now I just treat the police like they are all potentially violent insane people, who may or may not bite. Police in America is really, mostly an alternate venue of taxation. Almost all of us would be better off without them. Doesn't it cost more to imprison a man than to give him an ivy league education? Innocent men in prison is money in the bank for these reptilian brained psychotics, we call our leaders, the politician, and our real leaders, the politicians' owners. The banksters, and the hidden money, the insiders, the power elite. They are pretty much assholes. But they control the men with the guns. But not all of them, thanks to the second amendment.
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  80. One thing I like about Harris is that she use to prosecute parents for children that used to ditch school all the time.
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  81. The children are forced to suffer the dangerous results of their parent's ignorance. It's one thing to delete yourself from the gene pool due to stubborn ignorance, it is quite another to impose them on those in your care.
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  82. The paywall is making PZ largely irrelevant, despite his pleasant voice.
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  83. Micro-expressions do not lie. All of the cable news reporters, that is ALL of them, looked like they had just lost their favorite sex toy, or someone had told them that Santa Clause doesn't exist when it became apparent that Bernie was going to win in Iowa. Then they proceeded to demonstrate their singular super power in which they actually lie faster than they talk. Some kind of lyin dog-faced pony-soldier swarm -- FUken Aaaamazzen.
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  84. I've seen photos of M549 HERA rounds, seemingly in use in Ukraine. This is the rocket assisted HE round. Still needs a bit of guidance to be Excalibur. Good to see something anyhow. Now if they only had some M1156 kits to go with the rocket assist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1156_Precision_Guidance_Kit IMHO the most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 16 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell, but I kinda doubt it, according to Wikipedia it's range is 18 miles. The American Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it and now the Germans have too. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada, but they pale in comparison to the capabilities of the German Panzerhaubitzen 2000 that the Dutch and Germans are supplying (unfortunately in extremely limited numbers). See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_DS6UvZXPo&t=148s The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, -- baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. This would be a truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIPNElDkns&t=38s Rand and other think tanks estimate that Russia has already used more than 70% of their advanced guided missiles in Ukraine and they will not be able to replace them in a timely fashion. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common towed artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon tech they may no longer have access to. In any event, even if Russia should win in Ukraine, and realistically there is very good chance of this, Russia is totally screwed in the long term. See here to find out why Peter Zeihan finds this to be the case in one of his many videos on the Geopop YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwPMtmuuVNw&t=176s As he said, "A hypersonic missile without a nuclear warhead is just a very expensive way to blow up a building." Let's hope they keep up the stupidity they have been exhibiting in this area, with their "terror weapons".
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  85. "The funnier they dress: the less they know." -- Jan Cox
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  86. One test of stupidity is: if someone considers a symbol to be more significant than that which is symbolizes. Of course those who consider the flag more important than the freedoms that it symbolizes are not intelligent enough to understand this. And no amount of explanation or discussion will change this. It is an inherent inability to discriminate between shit and Shinola. (Shinola was a shoe polish back in the day when people actually shined their shoes.)
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  87. For "Cuban upper class" you should substitute the term "mafia connected" cause that is where all the real money came from in pre-revolutionary Cuba.
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  88.  @only1muppet  Neither the dems or repubs will deliver real reform for exactly the reason you give. The only thing a politician is interested in is maintaining or increasing their power, they will not vote against their own pecuniary interests, because in politicos money is necessary to gain and maintain power.
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  89. When this was actually needed, nobody was speaking up for fear of being ostracized by US culture and loosing everything they had worked for.
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  90. The people in Taiwan should be able to determine their own future.
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  91. So the people in my building don't pay their rent for six months: my landlord looses his mortgage and the bank decides to sell off the apartments as condos. Guess who gets screwed? Answer: everyone but the banks.
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  92. alcohol prohibition also created the first criminal millionaires., Drug prohibition has created the first criminal billionaires.
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  93. Those responsible for the "nation building" should be personally financially responsible (George W and company) The people do nothing but pay pay pay. Screw that.
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  94. And for all those sales persons who have had to deal with something like selling a car to a traditional Indian couple, I must say, you have my deepest sympathy.
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  95. Rittenhouse's bail was paid by the guy who owns "MY Pillow" -- boycott my pillow -- Mike Lindell. He is about to open My Store on line. Please boycott all Mike Lindell businesses. Boycott My Pillow and My Store.
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  96. Such excellent content: on an ongoing bases. Kudos and many thanks. Concerning the carnivore and keto movements: The whole keto diversion should have been settled when it was found out that Inuits worldwide developed a genetic mutation that prevents ketosis. If you don't think that that fact settles the question: think about it until you do -- because it does.
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  97. The whole point of any of the power elite, no matter of what flavor is to dupe the public into thinking that their whole point is something other than than increasing their own personal power.
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  98.  @ozzvilla9226  So what's the ratio? For every murder they prevent they commit two? I never needed a cop for seventy years and it's not because of the fear they have criminals in. Violent crime has been going down year by year but the number of innocent citizens murdered by police for nothing or for questioning their authority has been going up every year.
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  99.  @OGPatriot03  Terrorism is blowing up the Federal building in Oklahoma City. Terrorism is driving a car into protestors and killing them. Terrorism is attacking the Capital building and killing cops. Terrorism is doing drive bys on federal employees. Terrorism is pretending to be a medic and shooting people who are trying to disarm you. All done by "patriots"
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  100. I would go with Bernie and Tulsi, Then America might come back, otherwise it's onward into the darker regions of fantasyland.
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  101. This bull. We will be looking back in twenty years and seeing just where the hysteria that ended in causing desperate people, to turn to street drugs to control their pain. And why? Because the media fell once again for the war mongers. War on this, war on that, let's have a war on war and realize once and for all, that the only countries that have had any success dealing with the drug thing are those that decriminalized drugs entirely. All drugs should be available to any adult who wants them. Who are you to raise such fake fears in a public that is still under the sway of the last generation of bull that made all these drugs illegal to begin with? All this will do is increase the heroin use. It is only natural that a bulge in the aging population will use more pain killers than when they were young. Canada uses much more opioids per person than the USA. You can buy codeine over the counter without a script. If you don't realize that by far the greatest part of the harm caused by drugs is caused by their illegal status, then you are really blind. Who would turn to street drugs if they could walk into a store and buy some tablets that were more euphoric and effective then heroin? What if people who pursue pain meds had them, and they were pure and effective without all the prisons and beatings and heartbreak? What if people who were really just trying to kill themselves because of the present economic hammering that the one percent is giving the world, were allowed to kill themselves in peace, without the ridiculous drain of society that the present laws demand?
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  102. Trump is just reiterating the Putin policy of giving away the national assets to a small group of oligarchs, criminal bankers, and hedge fund managers. Who will then pay him off with billions hidden in the computers of Panamanian lawyers like they did with Putin. Two international criminals are now posing as the leaders of the worlds most powerful nations. Blame the stupid democrats who voted for Hillary in the primaries instead of the one good man who ran. The one good man who was way ahead of either of them in the polls and now is the most loved politician in the nation. Who will the insider cheating DNS come up with to run this time, instead of the guy who would have beaten Trump like the old rug he wears. Now they are crying and still don't see how they are responsible for the present kleptocracy, under the Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief. Look this isn't the first time a New York City conman conned a bunch of small town rubes from the rust belt, and it probably won't be the last as long as lies are allowed to be reported on news channels as facts without any repercussions. The sooner the old idiots: who watch Fox new all day, and believe it, die, the better off we all will be. Democracy can work, but only if actual facts about matters are presented to the public. This is proven scientifically in the field of emergent functions. Remember the urn of beans at the state fair, where you try to guess how many beans are in it. The average of all guesses is always more accurate than the most accurate individual guess. But the facts are apparent. If gum balls and psuedo beans were mixed in and nobody actually knew what was what, it wouldn't be like that. That is the situation we are in with alt.facts like presented by Fox and the many fake organizations bankrolled by the greedy idiot savant Robert Mercer, the Koch bros and others, like Britebart news. Democracy cannot work correctly as long as people believe the lies of the power elite.
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  103.  @willywonka4340  True that. I can't remember who said it but the quote is, "If progressives do nothing to control the situation at the border, people will elect fascists that will."
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  104. In Israel they would just run the defenders over with bulldozers. You probably would be hard pressed to find a dirtier source of energy than tar sands.
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  105. TSMC has just started to move again in the last month or so after a prolonged dip and sideways sleep. Could it be that when the world's supply chains are mucked up that Taiwan is effected no matter what the covid policy was? They are also building two huge fabs in Arizona . So they are going to both reap the rewards of manufacturing in the USA and being able to survive any Taiwanese situation that may arise.
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  106. Suffers from delusions, like everyone else who takes religous texts literally.
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  107. I always found peyote to be my fav, back in the day. I did all the famous hits of old: owsley, orange sunshine, all the famous sixties stuff, and none of them were as absolutely transforming and truly hallucinogenic as peyote no matter how intense they were, and STP was intense -- for days. Back then I used to buy buttons from a Indian dude in Tempe AZ. He had a basement full of burlap sacks full of dried peyote buttons. He charged seventy five cents a piece. This was rather unusual because he was the only person I knew in AZ that had a basement.
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  108. You're young and apparently unaware of the facts of life, one of which is that most people who become police do so, so that they can push people around and not pay the natural consequences of their behavior. Of course not true of all cops, but most. The training and testing given to local police for employment is a joke, and almost insures that they hire the wrong people for the job.
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  109. I agree, and people will realize the best use for extreme batteries is not a thousand mile range but a 300 mile range with a much liter car.
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  110. He distracts while Mercer, the Kochs, and Goldman Sachs and the banksters dismantle the US government, except for the military, so that they don't have to pay back any of the wealth and the prospect of future prosperity they surreptitiously stole from every citizen. And the present undemocratic electoral college and gerrymandered voting insures that the votes in the areas with the most intelligent populations count for little, while those of a few drunk distressed rust belt morons determine the elections. F*ck these bastards and the horse they rode in on. The horse they rode in on -- that would be the present campaign finance system. if you hadn't noticed, the systematized corruption that we now call government has evolved from a plutocracy to a kleptocracy.
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  111. The problem is the false perception that there two parties. Both parties are owned by the same real party, the power elite, who remain unseen by the public and of which no reports are aired by the media that they own.
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  112. What's with the 27/25 year age for the draft? The world armies are peopled by teens eighteen and up. My dad volunteered at 17 out of high school to fight in WW2, I was in the Vietnam draft at 18. Yet the Ukrainians use senior citizens and middle age men in their army. Just seems dumb.
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  113.  @warfarenotwarfair5655  That doesn't make any sense. The USA has a voluntary military now, so what's your point? Everyone who doesn't enlist is avoiding military service? Yet your fearless leader says that anyone who served and lost his life fighting tyranny was a "loser".
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  114. It's the same crisis: the USA refusing to admit the truth about opioids, continuing to demonize them and their users and forcing them to seek street drugs because of their bureaucratic stupidity.
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  115. GM actually spends more than two billion dollars in advertising each year.
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  116. You ever heard the expression "crabs in a barrel'? That's a way that the black community in the South used to criticize the others who would try to tear down any of their neighbors who would advance and begin to make their way in the world. Because you do not need to keep a lid on a barrel of crabs, every time one would climb close to the top, the other crabs would tear them down as they tried to climb out themselves over him.
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  117. The Carlisle Group, a private investment org that was populated by both the Bushs and the Bin Laudins at the time of the 9/11 attacks. Heavily invested in defense industries at the time.
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  118. Gee, I hope his bone spurs aren't hurting is golf game. Donald Lame Duck
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  119.  @didiprangsak1757  Sounds good to me.
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  120. People around the USA are often baffled by how crazy politics is in Florida. I submit that this is partly because of the former Cubans that profited from the sin economy of Cuba when it was virtually owned by American organized crime. They fled to Florida when the communist took over and became stanch republicans. The mafia never forgets and they lost a kingdom when Batista fell. Wonder how a minority party like the republicans can control so much of the government? Perhaps an answer to this apparent conflict can be found in the fact that Jimmy Carter downsized the CIA, many of whose operative then went to work for the RNC and proceeded to downsize him, and advance their adjenda through the Bushes at first camouflaged through Regan. Think about it George W. has been supported all of his adult life by Saudi investors. Funny how his ridiculous actions in Iraq and Afghanistan further Wahabbi goals. W: lest stupid and more evil than we think?
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  121. Pete has obviously bought too many pairs of sunglasses as is hurting financially, Anywho, The Economist has started making daily intelligence reports on YT, and in my opinion they are better than Pete's, and free.
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  122. Yep. . . hypocrisy makes the world go round. . . . and you thought it was love . . .tsk-tsk
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  123.  @2brealist430  Your reasoning is superficial. First of all they are not OUR anything. You may have helped pay for them, but they are not yours. Secondly: there are bad actors on both sides, and some of the bad actors are infiltrators that are attempting to stimulate a draconian reaction against the people they hate. I agree: if violence is to be used: and for the brain dead I will add that I am not advocating violence in the least, it would be much more effective for people to burn The Hamptons and other such enclaves. Or alternately to just assassinate Wall Street executives. Not much chance of that right now. It should be obvious to anyone that this is not an expression of class warfare, it is an expression of rage from being dehumanized by what is for many an inhumane system Actually your bombastic style of rhetoric sounds quite juvenile. And you did not disprove the fact that the power elite coddle uniformed criminals so that they will be willing to kill, if it comes down to it, without hesitation, in any way. . . . Despite your trying to deflect the statement with acts that have nothing to do with what has been going on in the USA. The number of violent crimes has been continually decreasing but the number of people murdered by the police has been continually increasing. I am simply offering an explanation of why this is, and it is in no way dependent upon the action of the people now in the streets as a gut reaction to an intolerable situation. OH, I see the problem now, you took the villagers with pitchforks image literally, you must be a republican, it was a metaphor einstein.
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  124.  @ozzvilla9226  There are two kinds of Trump supporters, multimillionaires and fools. Which are you? The people who call themselves conservatives are not conservatives at all, they are radical selfish right-wing militaristic fascists. For your information I used to be a republican, until I saw what Reagan and his mob of thieves did to the country. Ran up the deficit and showered money on the wealthy. Trump for your information had run up the deficit faster and further than any president, bar none. And I am talking about before the Covid came around. At the same time showering the richest people in the country with government money, and destroying all the support for the less fortunate. He claimed to drain the swamp but he is the swamp. He has routinely put persons who hate specific government agencies in charge of them in order to ruin them. He is a front man for Robert Mercer and the Koch brother and you don't even know who Mercer is. He has more Goldman Sacks bankers in his cabinet than even Obama, and Obama deported more undocumented aliens then him, but he makes a big deal out of it and imprisons infants. Fuck you and fuck him and the fuck the demented horses you rode in on. By the way don't attack the democrats in response. I abjure both parties because they are owned by the same misanthropic petulance. Trump is a conman and a fake populist, we need a real populist in office like Jessie V. Anyone who idolizes Trump is a moron. And by the way, Democracy Now's accuracy makes yours look like what it is, absolute nonsense. Try checking your facts, like you didn't when you claimed that cops had the most dangerous jobs. You were only off by fifteen places which is better than most of your bullshit psuedo-altenate-facts.
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  125.  @katarinahinsey3931  Unnecessary hostility is a confession of doofusism to anyone who isn't one.
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  126. To the extent that Israel meddles in the politics of the USA you still may not be far off in your belief.
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  127.  @paulkelly9250  Half of Europe's electricity is now produced by wind and solar.
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  128. Bernie $ VS Bloomburg $ Apologies to those who took arithmetic in elementary school. I know you already know this -- even so you may not be able to envision the difference in these fortunes and this explanation may help. Bernie has a stack of two million one dollar bills that he wants to give to Judy. Bernie is old and can only give her one dollar each second. If Bernie is wearing a catheter and doesn't need to go to the bathroom and can hand Judy dollar bills 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: how long will it take Bernie to give Judy his two million dollars? answer: There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hours and 24 hours in a day: Therefore Bernie can hand Judy 86,400 dollar bills every day. So he can give her $86,000 per day. So it would take Bernie just about 23 days and three and a half hours to give Judy two million dollars. (since $86,400 goes into $2,000,000 a little over 23.15 times) In twenty three days Bernie could hand Judy his two million dollars, one dollar at a time, if he can stay awake, and he can, cause he is a vastly woke dude. How long would it take little Mike to hand Judy his 60,2 billion dollars one dollar at a time? Mike is also old and wearing a catheter, is being fed intravenously and attended by his personal medical staff. Through the wonders of modern pharmacology and a neural implant he purchased, Mike can also stay awake. But due to age Mike can also only hand Judy one dollar bill per second. So Mike, like Bernie can give Judy $86,400 per day. There are 6,759.26 ($86,400) in 60.2 billion dollars so it would take Mike six hundred and ninety six thousand seven hundred and fifty nine days to hand Judy his 60.2 billion dollars. That's 696,759.26 days. That many days equals one thousand nine hundred and eight years and a few days short of eight months. So it would take Mike 1908.93 years to hand Judy all his money (that we know of). Bernie would be broke in 23 days. Mike would be broke in 1,909 years. Who is the oligarch? Addendum: Please note that since Mike is a capitalist who profits, not from his labor or producing goods but by investment, his wealth will actually be increasing by more than $86,400 per day because of profits on his fortune. So in reality, no matter how many thousands of years he spends handing Judy his money, he would never be able to do it and would always have more to hand her each day than he did the day before. Addendum PS: Old Jewish wisdom: "Every time somebody makes something for nothing, somebody else makes nothing for something." In Bloomburg's and the other billionares cases this "somebody else" is you and everyone else. If you don't understand this you are truly blind and will never understand why wealth is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and you are being robbed in ways you neither understand nor can do anything about without a fundamental paradigm shift in our laws, government, and cultural world-view.
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  129. Thank Nixon and the War on Drugs. It started with the police being able to search you car trunk in the seventies and has gone on from there. The fascists never let a good crisis go to waste.
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  130.  @didiprangsak1757  A culture of freedom. It probably seems like a vacuum to those who don't know what to do when free.
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  131. The Pardon-Nazi says, "No pardon for you! NEXT!"
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  132.  @mnomadvfx  That's not what the science says Elroy.
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  133. He would make a good clown. He looks just like Mickey Mouse. If we could get him to put on ears and some huge white gloves he could work at Disney World.
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  134. Really: ignore the extremists on both the left and the right, they have way too much bandwidth and far to little signal of any real importance.
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  135. Main plus for the Hyundai IMHO -- lifetime battery warranty. Main plus for the Tesla. It is of another generation than the Hyundai. It's like comparing an F14 which was a really cool fighter, to an F22, which is the next generation and vastly superior in engineering and alien tech.
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  136. If a police officer is aware of another cop's criminal activities, such as planting a knife or gun on someone they shot, stealing drugs from a bust, taking bribes in any form (free meals, free blowjobs, etc.) or stepping outside the law in anyway, and does not report it, they should be charged along with the cop-perp for the same crime that they knew was being committed.
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  137. Formerly known in his home state of Delaware as "Lyin' Biden". Bernie or Bust. . .
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  138. Obviously you are not a student of history. The USA is infested with corruption on many levels, but it is not even close to the most corrupt country in history or even the present. I totally understand your hormonal response though and hope you actually do something about your complaint.
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  139. In depth psychological testing before hiring, situational simulation testing, body cams that cannot be turned off, severe prosecution of crimes committed on the job, intelligence standards, increased pay, curtailing of "more than equal rights", and end of investigations by their own force when charged with misconduct.
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  140. Carlin is always first class.
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  141.  @jamesparker1071  We are still the biggest oil exporter on the planet. We were not energy independent before Joe. So in one sentence you managed to be wrong twice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production
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  142. Interesting that you relate it to the appearance of Gingrich. Citizens United is like the tip of the iceberg. All holier than thou wing-nuts whose personal lives are a cesspool of deceit and conceit. Not to mention a psychological shambles. And in classic form, they project their own decrepit souls onto "the other" and get followers and donations form other crypto-sociopaths because of it.
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  143. Which will survive? None of the cars in your title. Some of them may become collectors items though.
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  144. The objective of commercial media is not to inform you, it is to sell ad space or time. That's it. . . . Tesla does not advertise. It's competition has to. You do the math.
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  145. The simple truth about power: Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it. We knew this all the way back in the golden age of the Athenian hegemony. This includes everyone: both the golden boy of the right-wing nuts, and the wanna-be populists who take a mike at a protest. Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it: for any reason. Power should only be given to a person who doesn't want it and has been found to be the best person for the job. This is why we should turn from our psuedo-republic, which is really a plutocratic kleptocracy to a neoconfusian meritocracy where all positions of power are temporarily held by those found most adequate by means of testing and virtual scenarios devised by scientists and voted on by the populace. The populace would not vote for people but for the various tests devised to select the office holders. I am aware of the objections some would have to this but they are nothing that cannot be resolved by technical means, such as the top scorers being tested further in secure conditions. These tests would be mandatory for every citizen at regular intervals, and whoever scores highest would assume the position they tested for during the next regular government upgrade. This would be superior in every respect to the plutocratic kleptocracy we are now enslaved by. And all forms of cheating could be easily overcome by technical means.
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  146. Or perhaps we need a new governmental system that has an entirely new relationship to the dynamics of capitalism. The foremost concern of such a new system should be how to proof it against the inevitable infestation by persons with strong psychopathic or sociopathic impulses. Because they will inevitably find support in the ignorant, the stupid, and the belief rather than evidence based portions of the populace, not to mention those lower level scoundrels who wish to gain power through an association with such a psychopath who has risen to power: the sycophants, toadies, and yes-men.
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  147.  @icourant  Not to mention that the entire rationalization for annexation is EXACTLY the same. Ethnic Germans living in Poland or wherever wanted to be part of Germany. Ethnic Russians (who moved into these areas a generation or two ago) want to be part of Russia.
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  148. I would say they are equal. Equally deceived and equally duped once again by Goldman Sachs, Koch Industries, and Robert Mercer.
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  149. Well he did say his supporters would get sick of wining. So. . .
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  150. Allow me to suggest an alternate scenario. China launches an air assault that is never heard of again, and no one knows why or how.
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  151. You are correct sir, and it is the same dynamic here, there, and almost everywhere.
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  152. The person responsible for this was George Bush -- directly responsible. He ignored the facts, ignored the reality on the ground and decided to make his buddies in the defense industry and gov. contractors rich. Also note that George Bush has been supported monetarily his entire adult life by Saudi proxies
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  153. Usually TYT sees through red herrings that are set up by the power elite to restrict our freedoms and impower those whose career advancement depends on stirring up hysteria then offering a solution that is exponentially more harmful than the problem. In this case TYT fell for the same old dirty trick like some county bumpkin at the county fair. When they were first soliciting public opinions on a more restrictive pain medication legislation, everybody with any real knowledge on the dynamics at play here knew this would only result in a major increase in the use of heroin and a corresponding increase in the cash flow of a number of international criminal and terrorist networks. Are you so blind as to not have a clue that the intention of the super restrictive regulations regarding the prescription of pain meds for chronic conditions set up barriers to both the sufferers of such pain and the doctors who wish they could help them. When this new restrictive legislation which makes it impossible for people with chronic pain to have a regular recurring prescription, without continual visits to their doctor, one for each prescription, and enrollment in pain clinics, which will offer a number of alternative therapies, the vast majority of which will not help the vast majority of sufferers. Use you head, this is just the next, "War On" and the only ones who are going to benefit from this criminal scam, are the bankers who wash the illegal profits of the rapidly expanding heroin market, the criminal, terrorist, and the NGOs that use it for an alternative source of funds for black ops so dirty that even black ops command can't tolerate the illegalities involved, like Reagan did in Iran/Contra. Let's not forget the directors of programs that will see a renewed influx of funding despite the restriction on marijuana being shown for it was (pure lies and folly that alienated at least three generations from the American mainstream),this really doesn't equal the folly of the present situation, or the total suffering, death, and vast corruption that the billions of dollars in additional profits for international organized crime will have on our society at large. They already have enough power to rouse up all this hysteria over what is just a bulge in population entering an age were it is just natural to seek a little analgesia. In Canada you can buy codeine over the counter without a prescription, and they have a huge appetite per capita for codeine preparations, and you can just see how decadent their society is compared to ours. Instead of acting like a bunch of ignorant dupes in this matter why don't you do some real investigative journalism and uncover the payoffs to legislators by the interests who want to restrict the sale of strong analgesics thus driving millions into the heroin market, which will cost them much less than a legal prescription, but of course has many more risks, all most all of which stem from its legal status.  My own doctor predicted a wave of suicides as the new legislation when into effect. In this he was correct. The people who, despite all of the evidence to the contrary, still believe that the government is looking out for them in this matter. It isn't, this is a program that from the very start, seemed designed to produce crime and death by overdose, and of course the suicides of people who will not take responsibility for their own pain management, and get out on the street or under the net, and buy some heroin when the new system throws insurmountable obstacles in the face of the pain sufferer. Society is once again the victim of the power elite pulling off the same old tricks in this same old matter. Like marijuana the initial restriction of the sale and use of opium in Western Civilization was in Great Britain, when it was restricted at the bequest of behind the scenes manipulation of the legislature by the distillers interests. The distillers who traditionally served the needs of the miners and factory workers so that they could remain somewhat oblivious of their pain and hopelessness of their situation. Opium was more effective, far less harmful physically so far less harmful that it is usually unbelievable to people whose thoughts on the subject have been subjected to the propaganda currently in circulation regarding this matter. Really, how can you be so irresponsible and stupid?  You did not even look into this matter at all, you just read and then commented on a press release by some official or official sounding organization. Are you gonna be part of the solution or continue to be the unknowing dupe of forces that profit from victimizing people who are desperate to just not be hurting so much that they would in many cases rather be dead than face another day of agony. . . . No only an unsympathetic, psychopath who was incapable of any degree of empathy, or who possessed not a nanoparticle of intelligence, would be the ignorant supporter of such a regressive and draconian policy as the one we now have, and which you don't even seem to know about. Fu*k all the people responsible for the new wave of criminals they have helped create, not to mention the incalculable suffering by the innocent victims of your idiot legislation, the stupidity, and failure of which was proven and predicted by every useful and successful drug policy ever enacted (see Portugal, Switzerland, and the new freedoms being passed in South America. In every case decriminalization worked, largely eliminated the street crime associated with heroin addiction and the cost to maintain a habit. This cost is actually pennies but for the illegal nature and resulting inflated prices that the various criminal and banking organizations profit so greatly from. So thanks for making what is already a colossal and devastating problem just a little bit worse.
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  154.  @ozzvilla9226  As long as the protestors are seen as right-wing or Trump supporters they can carry ARs, but try that at a left leaning protest and it will be beatings imprisonment and possibly murder. And if you didn't already know that you are not paying attention.
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  155. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  156. "Mental competency to face execution. . ." What kind of insane asylum do we live in?
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  157.  @PNH-sf4jz  Yeah, unfortunately the Russian public does believe that Ukraine attacked them. Not only does the Russian public have no idea that they are losing the war, Putin doesn't know it either.
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  158. Funny: I thought that Porsche came up with that idea with the 911.
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  159. Consider this. Tesla just purchased a wireless charging company that has segment leading tech. Elon Musk's last academic endeavor was graduate level development in super-capacitors. Randy Munroe recently hinted that he was presently involved with tech he could not disclose for NDA reasons, but did say it had to do with capacitor/battery hybrid power units. Are you able to connect the dots? Capacitors can take up a large electric charge almost instantaneously, but it must discharge quickly too. A super-capacitor hybrid power unit would in theory, be able to charge in seconds but transfer the charge to the batteries which could run a vehicle. A car with such a power unit will make charging an EV a non event. It would happen as you drove out of your garage, or possibly over certain segments of a roadway at speed, and bill you automatically, and you would be on autopay, so the whole charging thing would just disappear.
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  160. Bernie and Tulsi 2020
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  161. This will continue in the USA until there is real total campaign finance reform. Totally unsexy issue but also the lynch pin that enables the nomalization of acts that were crimes just a few decades ago. If you care about these things this is the paramount issue, the only issue, the prime issue without which every other advancement will be subsumed and undermined by the power elite.
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  162.  @veronicamaine3813  As a percentage of Teslas net subsidies are hardly relevant anymore. Far from China ending their subsidies on EVs they have just passed new ones. Tesla will only qualify for this if they lower the price or release a special edition low cost EV in China. Despite this they remain number one in China, Europe, and America by so far that it isn't even a contest unless you skew the data, like including hybrids in BYDs totals to make it seem like they are on a par with Tesla, while without subsidies BYD would not make a profit on their EVs, in fact none of the Chinese EV OEMS make a profit on any of their cars EXCEPT Tesla and Tesla makes a profit on each unit second only to Mercedes. The media is thirsting for Tesla to start paying them ad revenues, so much that they distort and amplify everything about Tesla, while it has in fact in reality out-preformed by every metric constantly for years. EVentually the truth will win out over the Wall Street short players and the coercive and distorted media thrusting for the billions like they get from all the other OEMS.
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  163. More like one Belgium per month -- for a while anyway.
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  164.  @tinydave17  Exactly correct. One of the amusing results of which is that several studies have concluded that Fox News viewers know less about what is really happening in the world than people who have no interest in news and do not read newspapers or watch news shows? How can this be? Simple -- they are continuously disinformed about current events.
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  165.  @carlosandleon  Yes really, the Greeks established cities all along the Black Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_colonisation
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  166. Glad they finally approved the the Moderna booster. I have had mine for over a month, with no ill effects in the least, also a friend of mine who is quite unhealthy and in her mid nineties got her's at the same time with no ill effects. So there ya go: an N of 2.
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  167.  @carynmartin6053  All humans have continual narratives unless they are enlightened in the moment. That being said, and true, and it is: the University of Maryland did a study years ago to find the most accurate source of news that the average person has access to. This study found that those who relied on PBS for their information held the most accurate ideas about what was actually happening in the world. As opposed to those whom relied on Fox cable news (which is one of the, if not the, most watched of all channels): those who relied on Fox as the primary source of their understanding of current events, knew less about what was actually going on than the people who had no interest in current events and did not follow the news. This seems unlikely until one understands that Fox and CNN, and their ilk, are not like the old broadcast news networks that held their news divisions as sacred and entirely isolated from, not only the entertainment divisions of the network, but more importantly from the sales department at the network. While seeming to have the prime directive similar to what the networks use to have, Fox and company are not there to inform you, like most viewers assume, their sole raison d'etre is to sell commercial advertising time. The more viewers they have the more they can sell their commercial time for. So they basically present the narrative that they assume most people want to hear. Even when some of the actual facts are correct on Fox, which is not all as common as you would think, they are embedded, in an entirely false narrative, whose only guide is the effect on the relative value of advertising time sales.
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  168. My main interest at this point is the effect of Russia's demented actions, and the manner in which anti-Tesla politicians in Germany may be able to take advantage of shortages in petrol gas to limit or block production. I imagine that Elon has a plan B for this also? Perhaps giga solar development in Spain and conversion of the Giga presses to electrical induction?
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  169. Welcome to Bizarro World.
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  170. Please sir, if everyone ate a plant-based nutritionally dense diet, how would the drug companies be able to survive? After all they have a fiduciary responsibility to their stock holders to keep us fat and sick.
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  171. US drug policy is all a scam. They have no intention of stopping drugs. The only way to do that is to decriminalize all drugs and treat addicts as medical patients, and give them as much drugs as they want for free, in a clinical setting, while offering therapeutic help. It worked in Switzerland and it will work here. But if they are kept illegal it makes dealing in them so profitable that it cannot be stopped and all it does is create more criminal billionaires. That is the real objective of US drug policy, to keep it a big big money enterprise with law enforcement, and the courts, and prisons, and all the dirty bankers who clean up the money that the criminals make. Without our stupid stupid approach of trying the same thing that does not work over and over drug plants would be the price of soy beans and not one more person would be abusing them than is now.
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  172. Trump was a tragedy, but Biden is a joke. The joke is on us and the corporations will be laughing all the way to their banks.
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  173.  @elephantman2112  "Shore up", not "sure up".
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  174. I'd say that's an understatement.
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  175. Is it possible that some interest wanted the capital to be vandalized? It sure looks like that, only token resistance from the police. Then the cover story from everyone downplaying the tactical boneheadedness. Somehow I doubt the first story. What is really going on, who benefits? I am not buying it. This was a planned event, and not necessarily by those who caused it.
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  176. Yeah here's the thing, you have to pull down the tyrants not the statues of the tyrants a hundred years after they're dead. Our wonderful leaders, all over the world continue their high level fuckery unimpeded.
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  177. Are you even aware of the AGM-88G now being manufactured in the USA? What would your assessment be if all the radar of Chinese medium range missile systems that threaten US carriers violently disassembled because of missiles launched by stealth aircraft outside of the range of SAM systems? Air dominance over the Chinese mainland, not just over Taiwan is my guess.
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  178. Trump's tweets have now been renamed quacks. Donald Lame Duck, quack, quack quack -- ad nausea
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  179. fHe's also wrong about China disappearing in seven more years. And lots of other stuff. But he does know geography.
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  180. I tried to verify your statement and couldn't. I found statistics that stated that half of all German doctors joined the Nazi party. That is the closest I could get to your incredible claim. If your statement has any reality outside of your imagination please provide the source.
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  181. Merger of Corporate Interests and Political Power is the definition of fascism.
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  182. Flip side? You mean the flip side to the lie that was spread to further enrich the criminal billionares that our drug laws created and the banksters that make a fortune cleaning up their dirty money? This whole subject is the babble of the insane puritanical conditioning of the populace by the psychopaths that are in control. These laws create a climate in which people turn to street drugs and the hell our laws hand to them. It is insane to think that prohibition works. Opioids are one of the most benign drugs you can use long term. Less harmful than common over the counter drugs that the fools who believe these laws take regularly. Switzerland solved their heroin problem by making it freely available to addicts. What happened? They self titrated and went back to work instead of being out on the street trying to come up with the money for dealers. This whole problem is self-created. Perhaps we should return to the ultra insane times when doctors and loved ones would withhold pain meds from those in their care who were dying in agony, because they did not want them to become addicted in the final months of their lives. This used to happen all the time, not so long ago. I witnessed it happen to a beloved great aunt when I was a teenager. Anyone who supports this policy is an idiot and thinks that doing the same thing that doesn't work over and over again is a good idea.
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  183.  @sinkec  So then you comment to me is your own way of reinforcing your own illusion? Did you type it without fingers that moved through space? Your comment reminds me of a friend of mine back in the sixties who dropped acid and spent the whole night pointing at a chair and laughing and repeating, "There is no chair." Until finally some smart ass said, "Dude you saying that there is no chair is proof positivist that there is, or else you would have nothing to say." Which everyone but one person found kind of funny. Delight in the minds two dimensional apprehension trying to deal with a nonlinear reality takes all kinds of novel starts and turns. Some of them useful or at least revealing, some of them . . . not much more than an illustration of a thoughts inadequacy in such regions. When the automatic thought-centric associative mind is turned upon concepts that have no primary reality, that is, that disappear when no one is thinking about them, the only thing that can result is endless confusion and paradoxical conclusions that also have no primary reality.
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  184.  @ozzvilla9226  Get real and stop spewing nonsense. Police and deputy patrolmen rank 16th in the dangerous professions, and if you consider all police work as one thing they don't even make the list. Here are the 25 most dangerous jobs in America: from most dangers on down. Logging workers Fishers and related fishing workers Aircraft pilots and flight engineers Roofers Refuse and recyclable material collectors Driver/sales workers and truck drivers Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural managers Structural iron and steel workers First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service and groundskeeping workers Electrical power-line installers and repairers Grounds maintenance workers Miscellaneous agricultural workers Helpers, construction trades First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers and repairers Police and sheriff’s patrol officers Construction laborers Maintenance and repair workers, general Mining machine operators Operation engineers and other construction equipment operators Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists Electricians Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers Athletes, coaches, umpires and related workers Industrial truck and tractor operators The grounds keepers at a golf course has a more dangerous job than a patrol cop einstein. Get you head out of the fiction fog you think in.
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  185. Comment part 2 However here are some of my thoughts on democracy and how it can work. In observing certain social animals, like ant colonies and bee hives, it is apparent that certain capacities are actualized of which the individual animals themselves are incapable. These are sometimes referred to as emergent functions, some of which are assumed to come about because of the activation of certain epigenetic potentials in the genome given the proper protein to initiate them. This is debatable, however the functions themselves are easily observable. Humans are also capable of emergent functioning -- in a political sense. Here is an example of this in action: We are all familiar with a type of game of chance that one sometimes comes across at a charity event or perhaps a county fair. There will be a large urn or similar vessel and it will contain tens of thousands of jelly beans or marbles or gumballs or something. And typically you make a donation or buy a "chance" and then you make a guess as to how may jelly beans are in the urn. Of course it is impossible to count the jelly beans and it is also very difficult to even make any kind of accurate estimation. So usually thousands of people will make a guess and put it in a box and then the most accurate guess wins a prize, like a car or something. Well as it turns out: the average of all of the guesses is almost always (actually "always", but I am hedging) more accurate than the best guess. . . . Now it is true there is no one obscuring parts of the urn or extolling the virtues of certain sets of numbers or otherwise lying to the guessers with false narratives about the jelly beans or the process of guessing. Of course there is no Donald Trump, or FOx news, or CNN spinning false narratives about the jelly beans or telling you that there is a large grapefruit unseen in the middle of the urn that is displacing patriotic American jelly beans, so it is not exactly the same thing as a democratic vote on legislation or some other political decision. Yet I do believe that this human potential could be brought to bear in a political scenario: if, for instance, something like fines and imprisonment or perhaps huge fines and banishment where the consequence for presenting anything but verifiable facts as evidence in arguing for or against any particular collective democratic decision. And perhaps, just maybe this collective talent could also be mobilized on a level of finer granularity by calling into question the false narratives and other deceptions of the power-elite and their legions of sycophantic wannabes to themselves be objects of observation and study as is now happening via the decentraization of political commentary and criticism made possible by the internet. So, potentially, democracy may still have some very significant tricks up it's venerable sleeve, only this time, tricks for the good instead of the in the service of evil. And perhaps some day we could be supplemented in these quandaries by the kind of advanced AI and machine learning that can beat the champions at GO. A game that seems to me, to be very like our political process. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. We have known forever that it would be best to get all money out of politics if the most ethical and fair government is what you want. We have known forever that proportional representation is superior to winner-takes-all seesaws. We have known that the banks are incapable of regulating themselves and that the wealth of the nation is being sucked up by the military industrial professional political worker complex, that the drug war is a farce that has created the first billionaire criminal organizations. In our hollowed out lives, news has become entertainment. And the fantasyland they present to the public is a poor substitute for what should have been the golden destiny of mankind on earth and in regions beyond.
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  186. @Davemike27 What part do you need? Check a salvage yard. My guess is that you do not own a Tesla, you do not need a part, you have never driven a Tesla, and you actually are just regurgitating things you read. There are aftermarket parts for Teslas now and will be more in the future.
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  187. If people are actually more intelligent than corporate news assumes they are, then all the insipid attacks against Bernie will only help him.
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  188. The best case for bitcoin they made was for people living in countries with hyperinflation. I don't know why I commented here, my portfolio does far better when I don't watch Bloomberg and totally ignore CNBC. I bet yours will too.
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  189.  @amacca2085  Since the scenario presented would not exist without nuclear weapons, I would say it has everything to do with them.
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  190. Good luck Julian.
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  191. If somebody kicks Trumps butt -- I'll pay their attorney fees.
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  192. I would love to see Askrin make a fool out of Kabib
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  193. It is a sad sad thing, but the difference in gov reactions between the BLM protests and the the January Insurrection go far to support your view.
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  194. Not so, all the robots will be networked with industrial level machine learning and AI which will be running thousands of simulated iterations of specific procedures per second, then based on this modeling introducing tentative modifications in a sand-boxed production cell and duly evaluated.
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  195.  @kmancrx  The planet will be fine, humanity perhaps not so much.
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  196. Come on Georgia I have lived there, I know what great people live in the metro ATL and university towns. Show them what the real heart of Georgia is. Get rid of the scum.
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  197. More people are killed with hammers each year than rifles. Far more people are killed with fists each year than rifles. World wide more people die from tobacco use than war. tens of thousands of people die from automobiles each year. Hundreds of thousands of people die each year from medical treatment or error. Millions of Americans are killed by their own inability to eat a healthy diet or because they are a sedentary slob. For every crime committed with a firearm three crimes (that are reported -- most aren't) are prevented by the brandishing or use of a firearm. Most people who die by firearms commit suicide and would find a different way to do it if they didn't have access to a firearm. In Switzerland the population has more firearms per capita than in the USA many of which are full automatic weapons, unlike the semi look alike rifles that shit head media personalities wrongly refer to as "assault rifles". Yet there are no mass shootings. The firearm is neither the cause nor the symptom of the alienation and polarization in our country, the media spin, corporate owned for profit fake news, and the death of the American Dream due to concentration of wealth and the legalized corruption of the Congress that serves their plutocratic masters are the infection that runs beneath. Not to mention the brainwashing of females in progressive communities to treat white males as the enemy. There has never been a crime committed in the USA with a legally owned machine gun or fully automatic weapon even though there are tens of thousands of them in civilian hands. This could actually go on and on, but firearm incidents get the headlines unlike automobile deaths which cause as much pain and suffering for the families as any other form of horrible death. Personally I would rather be shot to death by some disaffected probably mentally ill person than cut in half by a piece of jagged sheet metal to bleed out on the side of a highway by some drunk driver or some nitwit on their cell phone. But I know you feel with all your heart that firearms are the problem.
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  198. And their high performance machE is limited to five seconds of full power. Not so impressive.
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  199.  @sardoniclaugh9646  Congratulations you have won the Stupid Comment of the Day Award.
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  200. Look at his microexpression. He is another conman like trump and hillary.
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  201. In 1969 my girlfriend and I were returning to our apt from dining out. The route we were taking went through a black section of a small city in PA. I first noticed that many of the windows on the street were smashed. It all happened very quickly. Next I notice that there were cars overturned up ahead on fire. It is a one lane one way street without room to turn around. Next I hear someone scream "whitey!" and a brick hits my windshield right in front of my girlfriend and showers her face with glass. A mob of people started to converge on my car. If it wasn't for a small alleyway that just happened to be right at the left of my car I would have had no way out. I took off down the alley and a mob of people literally collided with each other where I had been a moment before. I drove directly to the police station before I stopped because I didn't know how extensive the riots were. The car I had seen burning in the next block had held an elderly white couple that were pulled out of their car and beaten to death. My girlfriends face was covered in blood but only superficial lacerations. If not for the luck of that alley we would have been dead just because we were white. So I know exactly how it feels to be targeted for no reason but your race. The next year, my freshman year a university, I went with a close black friend to a black power rally. I was the only white person there. I was so abused both by the audience and from the stage that I got up and left, despite being there to support their cause. I guess I told you that so that you could rest assured it is a pan human trait to be brutal. Given the opportunity the oppressed will step right up an oppress others.
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  202. Hint: the same foreign Bush supporters who benefited most from the fiasco Bush created.
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  203. When the boomers were teenagers and in their early twenties, if someone expressed an opinion on TV, the station had to provide free equal time for those with opposing or divergent opinions. That is how far our society has devolved, and nobody even noticed. It used to be illegal for a cop to search your car, or enter you house without a warrant. Now it's ok to kill you if they get scared. This has become a shit country since the shit-heads have taken over. Of course they made it very comfy for the shitheads, and very profitable too. The entire conservative movement is merely a regressive reaction to the positive conscious societal evolution that was taking place in the sixties and early seventies. It started with Reagan and disco, and that was enough for people who never really were hip except to fit in, to no longer be ashamed of being regressive or superficial assholes. Now finally perhaps this transient delay in human evolution can be transcended like the degenerate speed bump it is, in the long term view of the golden destiny of mankind, which the shitheads have diverted into stupid shit like yachts with trees on them, trillions of dollars worth of weapons, or empty houses and apartments all over the world. Time for some reeducation for these shit-heads.
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  204. This last election is the only time I ever voted for a lesser of two evils and I now regret not throwing my vote away on a third party progressive.
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  205. Republicans are the masters of hypocrisy (democrats not far behind). During the Clinton administration the gov actually had a surplus. Not that the sell-out Clinton was responsible, but consider this, disregarding expenditures caused by the pandemic, Trump ran up the deficit faster and farther than any other president. All the while the typical Trump cultist believed he was draining the swamp and not doing the same thing as the spend-thrift democrats. The difference was were the money went. With Trump it went to the people who least needed it -- of course.
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  206. Why run the most popular politician in the country when you can run the most hated woman? DNC logic turns Orwell inside out. That's why the obvious is so damn obscure if you play their game. Or could our lovely bloody neolibs really that out of touch? One way or another: you know it's true. And it really doesn't matter. Either way, if you play their game,  you lose.
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  207. Trump is a conman, a front man for a cadre of billionares who would rather have the USA destroy itself internally, that is, give up the hope that our founders, as fallible and human as they were, had in their most ideal vision. These people, like Robert Mercer the idiot savant hedge-fund rainman, and the Kochs and other prime suspects that would rather have the nation ruined of any higher purpose than pay the taxes on their ill-gotten, planet destroying gains. Fortunately for them, they own the media, at the same time that they are telling you that the media is against them and liberal. They have millions of people thinking that real news is fake and fake news is real. They have such sophisticated means of persuasion, functionally brain washing, that they have totally transformed the nation in the last forty years no matter who was in office: Goldman Sach and the other corrupting and ruinous influences owned them, and Trump is the worst of them. He has more Goldman Sach minions in charge of agencies that they hate, than any other prez ever did. And the 80,000 rust belt white male voters that made the electoral difference still think that he is there for them, against the establishment. It's a huge farce. These people who voted for him are the kind of people who only watch Fox News -- some are functional, maybe successful and hard-working, but they are rubes. It ain't the first time that some NYC conman, pulled one over on a bunch of rust belt rubes and it won't be the last. If you see what he is actually doing, and you are yourself not at least a multimillionaire, and you are still in favor of Trump: you need to broaden your scope of information outside of things you like to hear. He is going to make your life poorer, and the rich richer, without any doubt. That is why he is there.
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  208. Jeff Sessions is obviously an idiot that no amount of factual information will dissuade from an approach that is a failure from the get go. The only ones that will benefit from his approach are the gangsters that profit from a price that is determined by their products status as contraband, and the bankers who wash the billions in criminal profits that are only possible because of idiots like Sessions. Unlike Portugal, Switzerland and any number of sane countries that have taken a sane approach to recreational molecules and who has the right to say what you put in your own body this idiot wants to drag us back to the Harry Anslinger days of hysterical stupidity.
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  209. I think he looks like Mickey Mouse. Just imagine him with two huge white gloves on.
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  210.  @ThePorkchop1787  Taxed top incomes at over ninety percent during Ike's administration for one thing.
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  211. The average American voter either votes straight party or just votes for the names he recognizes -- thus abominations like McConell. "Even God has no defense against stupidity" -- G I Gurdjieff
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  212. I hope and pray that your FUD on Tesla will drive the price down to 625 or less just one more time before the moon.
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  213. I'm sure dozens of comments have mentioned to you that kinzhal is not a hypersonic missle as they are defined by the US. It is a ballistic missle like many midium range surface to surface missles. But even real hypersonic missles, have to slow down so that their targeting systems work in the final stage of flight.
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  214. You are insulting the intelligence of the Jack Russell.
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  215. You know there are huge EV TREX type mining trucks that don't need to charge at all due to regen and the difference in weight of the truck coming downhill loaded and going back up empty. At least one in Europe has been operating with no charging, and CAT is now making some too.
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  216. BIDEN CAN'T BEAT TRUMP.
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  217. Whenever a tyrant, of whatever form takes control, the intellectuals are the first to go to the gallows, because they are the only group that is capable of seeing through the bullshit that is presented as the "norm".
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  218. Apparently with intelligence, talent, coercion, violence, superior firepower, and a heritage of abuse. And great influence in American politics. IMHO they should have established a Jewish homeland In Brazil where they could have purchased land for almost nothing in the early 20century. It's one thing to build a country, especially with the belief in fairy-tales of one's heritage. It's another to make it a forgone conclusion. Value as a strategic ally of the USA is imperative for Israel's ultimate security.
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  219. This is funny, a professional writer and he is such a nitwit that he writes the opposite of his intended meaning. . . . "his prospect against Donald Trump in November would be far from hopeless." Which actually means his chances would be good. What a moron. Why does he have employment and why is anyone concerned with what he wrote? He also mentions Goldwater. Did you know that H. Clinton campaigned for Goldwater? She used to be a starry eyed rabid conservative. That is a fact.
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  220.  @FlowerGirl.MN50  Where obviously people do not care if a company with all the morals of the Mafia is their car company.
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  221. Pete has a good speaking voice for an empty suit.
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  222.  @nwj486  That is hard to believe since we produced almost 13,000,000 barrels in July. Over 1/4 more than second place (Russia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production
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  223.  @nikky4757  The reality is that if you think other EVs are on the same level as Tesla you know nothing about EV engineering I suggest you refer to Munro Tech. https://www.youtube.com/@MunroLive/videos Any child can see that the reason that used Tesla's have dropped in price is because of government subs, and the fact that Tesla has lowered it's price. Which is good for everyone, especially those in the market for a less expensive EV that is not some laughable BMW attempt or GM trying to convince people that their EVs are somehow on par.
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  224. HL Muench No that is merely an ancillary result of the real problem 1: Campaign Finance. It needs to be banned entirely and candidates with enough following given free public air time during scheduled events for a few weeks and that is it. No contributions at all.
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  225. 9:32 Obama was a standard bearer for remote murder of noncombatants.
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  226. What a lying slimebag. Trump is worse than any other president when it comes to socialism for the elite and to hell with everyone else. He has more Goldman Sachs millionaires in his cabinet than any other pres. And all the other facts fly in the face of his nonsense about Trump being a populist. If you look in the dictionary under incompetent elitist you will find Trump's picture. This clown is a foil for Robert Mercer, who only wants the dissolution of the US government so he doesn't have to pay taxes on his computer scammed market thievery. If you haven't figured it out yet, both the republicans and the democrats are OWNED by the same people. They keep this liberal vs conservative scam going because it serves their interests to keep the public divided. Trump has been the master at polarizing and stratifying the populous. Bannon is an agent for the ultra nut-job elitist -- Robert Mercer
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  227. Failed to mention that half of the Kent State students murdered by the idiots in the national guard were not involved in the protest but were just walking past. Of course, the hate filled cowards who murdered unarmed students met no justice for their heinous crime but merely stated that they were in fear of their lives from the unarmed students all of whom that were shot were more than a football field length distant from the murderers. No justice for Americans unless you are a millionaire or in the police. The assault on the average person by the forces of political and economic repression continues to this day. How many people brutalized or murdered by police for not submitting to their authoritative ego-driven behavior will it take? How many police lying in court to convict innocent people will it take?
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  228. That was indeed excellent work. Glad you picked up on it.
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  229. Consumer Reports gets major funding from the Ford Foundation. Are you people really so full of hate for the most benign and moral major corporation on the planet? Tesla also just got several awards for being vehicle of the year. It is also the safest car of any type in a collision. It also has the highest owner satisfaction by a mile. I could go on and on, and you have to pick though slanted reports by biased media (a all media that depends on advertising revenue hates Tesla because they do not need to advertise -- fool) And in Consumer Reports, they are highly influenced by the Ford money.
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  230. Well there is some truth to that, but only some. Payment can take many forms.
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  231.  @chesslover8829  Lockdowns were worth a try pre vaccines. We really don't know, and can't know to what degree they impeded the inevitable spread of SARS. I actually feel quite relieved that most of my family, though extremely conservative, did get the full course of vaccinations. Actually David was in his fifties, which to me is young, a completely unnecessary death, caused by his belief in nonsense made up by the stoners living in their mom's basement who come up with all these Qanon fantasies. I am a centralist, who longs for the days that IKE was in the white house and am totally sick of both the idiots on the far right and far left. Who are ruining the USA. Of course these days the numb skulls on the right who fancy themselves conservatives but are actually radicals would think Eisenhower is a socialist.
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  232. "Two thousand children RIPPED FROM THEIR FAMILIES" 1:02 -- Pretty hard to "rip them from their families" when they arrive alone without their families and mostly ripped themselves from their families voluntarily. Typical spin of a chronically biased narrative.
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  233. @Dance4JC No matter, this is not some true history that is just now being revealed, this is just a narrow subjective interpretation of isolated events without regard for the tenor of the times, what other cultures were doing, or the facts about the conquered cultures and their own violent history.
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  234. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  235. Sacredness does not reside in places or objects. Sacredness has only ever resided in the possibility of a quantum leap in the functioning of the nervous and limbic systems of man. This is reflected in such phrases as "The enlightened see the Buddha in a piece of dung." Human progress and the scientific advancement of humanity has been the hostage of ignorance and superstition for far too long. I am sure that many of the protestors feel to the depths of their hearts that there is something sacred about this mountain in particular. This is a delusion. If they were really concerned with the "sacred" they would only be concerned with the possibility of bringing about the evolution of their own conscious awareness. This confrontation has nothing to do with the sacred. It is really just a pissing contest. The difference between this and most other protests is that this is based on lies and delusions, no matter how traditional the lies have become. The sooner humanity rids itself of all the flying spaghetti monsters, the better. If you cannot feel the sacred equally whereever you are, you are just an unenlightened imbecile who has never really pursued the matter to any significant depth.
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  236. Lucid makes a kool EVs, even though it is only for the well-off. Unfortunately It kinda seems like the company is doomed. However they do have Saudi backing. I wonder just how much the Saudis are willing to lose pursuing manufacturing that will make their primary industry less valuable. I wonder how Saudi "royalty" (and I use that adjective disparagingly) makes such a decision. Perhaps a good subject for some future show.
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  237. Think about this: If the Gigafactory is Tesla's real product, what type of product is Tesla itself? I am not talking about what type of a "financial product" Tesla stock is. I am asking about the real total process and production of the physical and information transformations of Tesla as a whole, as a core of the physical plant and IP of Tesla, and compute as process . . . . All products, services, and the physical plants along with potentials of management, employees, capital allocation power and everything directly controlled and highly effected by it. The bot coming on line, AI and DoJO firing up, the revolutions in manufacturing tech now being initiated and the future tech in development -- EVERYTHING. Everything looked at as a whole. Elon is forging an analogue of a universal quantum constructor in the real world. Which is supposed to just be a physical theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40CB12cj_aM&t=1232s It's a good thing that SpaceX is gearing so swiftly, because Tesla will not be able to be bound to the earth. And when the need arises the ride will be at the curb. Twenty years to the first off-world gigafactory.
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  238. You are absolutely correct. Every administration since Reagan, no matter the party, has been a front for the banksters and the billionaire kleptocrats. They have been at war with the rest of humanity and their only goal is to protect and increase their power and wealth. Nothing else, no other consideration enters into their world-view. They are masters of the "Hey lets you and him fight" strategy of divide and conquer. They have almost half of the populace believing they are on the same side as themselves, because they own the mass media. They live in a different world than you and I do, a world whose wealth and possibilities can truly not be imagined by the average Joe. They lead lives that would be the envy of the Egyptian pharaohs or Roman emperors. And it is all hidden. Strictly speaking they belong to a subspecies of humans.
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  239. My experience tells me that America is incapable of electing the best man/woman/whatever for the job. No matter what the election results are, Goldman Sacks will always win until they and their ilk see the light (at the end of the tunnel).
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  240. Oh it has a justice system, unforunately there is little justice involved, one system for the rich and famous, another for the police, and a tax system posing as justice for everyone else, oh, and the "plead guilty and take this deal or we will crucify you" deal that the average person gets.
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  241.  @MrDXRamirez  No. Not unless I saw some evidence that it was true for a particular product. I know it sound cool to roundly condemn everything about America here on DN, however the truth is more important to me than some inane political narrative. In fact I have come to detest the radicals on both the left and the right for their willingness to sacrifice truth in order to spin a narrative for political ends.
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  242. Sadly the power-elite scumbags have now created a legislative environment wherein what was formerly criminal acts is now business as usual.
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  243.  @Taskarnin  Yeh, well the missiles used to shoot down supersonic missles don't have to be as fast, they just have to intercept them.
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  244. So AI will use quantum computers to contol all of humanity, each individual preforming a coordinated task with superhuman intelligence and knowledge, and perfect exicution, while our apperceptive identities play in a cyberspace paradise.
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  245. @Yoda Bernie is gonna crush Trump.
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  246. Coca Cola is already a drug due to its sugar content.
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  247. Nothing has changed concerning the financial inequality between the power-elite and the average person, but much has changed for the power-elite themselves -- they have much more power than they did during occupy, and are far richer than they were just a decade ago.
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  248. "Third party software" says it all. Obviously over the heads of the haters that commented. Another Bloomberg shot at no advertisement policy of Tesla. Tesla starts wasting millions on ads and all the FUD goes away.
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  249. I know this generally does not play in the decision of what car a person would purchase, but on a purely moral level -- despite the copious media FUD to the contrary (which we all know is motivated purely because of pecuniary interest on the part of the media companies true agenda which is to sell ad space/time and cover the short positions of the holding companies that really own them {so grow up}) AS I was saying: on a purely moral level VW deserves to fail, and fail miserably, as does Mercedies, Porsche, GM, and probably others. Other than Tesla if there is a OEM that has operated in anything other than a truly criminal manner, at times, I am not aware of it -- perhaps some minor players that don't really move any metrics have, I don't know. Maybe you do. But all these companies would end up in hell if we were judging them from a Medieval perspective, or in jail if we used a criminal metric. And the poetic irony of it is, that they continually have various shills and interested parties spreading disinformation at light speed on a daily basis, accusing Tesla of doing what they have been found to have been doing all along. Too bad people don't consider the moral behavior or intentions of a company in their purchasing decision, because the major OEMs that would hold up to scrutiny are very few.
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  250. New depth to the meaning of the term "puddin' heads".
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  251. The Nazis were definitely socialists that's why right-wing extremists wear hammers and sickles instead of swastikas.
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  252. She looks like a member of a Star Trek away team that doesn't come back.
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  253. 8:49 Laura Trump is wearing a dress with a marijuana leaf pattern. What are the odds that she has investments in the pot industry?
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  254. And all the social democracies in northern Europe have higher social mobility despite taking care of their population in a humane way.
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  255. "People become psychologists to help other people: because they can't help themselves." - Jan Cox
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  256. The Stanford Prisoner Experiment should tell us everything we need to know about giving people authority and uniforms and weapons and telling them to enforce order. Even when they know it's an act they become extremely abusive.
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  257. I kinda hate to admit it, but I would love to see Elon pull a successful walrus on Prince Sauron. But there is something that I would love to see much more than the upcoming cage match between them, and that is . . . wait for it. . . A battlebots prelim between them. Come on boys, a cage fight while fun for us and maybe charity, really isn't the thing is it; doesn't prove a thing except maybe that geniuses are at time more stupid than a fifth grader. But a no holds, bare knuckle battlebots war between two teams of bots would produce a champion that meant something. Whose total tech is the badass of the planet. Whose? Whose AI could predict the soft-spots of their opponent and have the technique and the tech to rip them apart? Now that is a bout that I would fee no shame about cheering for.
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  258. Or maybe Saudi Arabia, who was responsible for housing and brainwashing the refuge children that became the Taliban in their anti-life madrassas, should.
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  259. If the democrats what to lose the presidency again, all they have to do is insist on policies on open boarders that alienate the same 100,000 fools in the rust-belt that voted for Trump, but that would have voted for Bernie if the Democrats hadn't robbed him. Down with the Republocrats and the horse they road in on (big money horse)
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  260.  @ozzvilla9226  Your comments are incredibly stupid. I feel no rage and here is exactly what you wrote -- verbatim -- cut and pasted no less. . . . "I think these people perform very valuable services for our society but what are the statistics for on the job death in each of these occupations. I would bet cops is at the top of the list." Well obviously you failed to take into account reality -- once again -- you are lost in a right-wing bubble of lies and deception. You made a lot of replies and every one of them is idiotic. And now you don't even know what you wrote. What a waste of time you are.
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  261.  @nntflow7058  "Tesla's owner" -- you mean the hundreds of thousands of retail investors along with the investment banks and hedge funds? Or are you just repeating FUD you learned from the commercial media companies that love to trash Tesla in the hopes of someday getting it to buy ad time and space? Because the real facts are that Tesla owners are the most loyal and most pleased of all car owners, not just EVs. Most people with your attitude do a 180 upon driving a Tesla for the first time. Nothing else comes close, well not for less than three times the price and even then not really when all factors are considered. Recently a Tesla was driven off a 250' cliff in the drivers attempt to do a murder suicide of himself and family. Unfortunately for him, everyone survived without major injuries. This does not happen in any other vehicle.
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  262. Desertification of grasslands is one matter: cutting down forests to turn it into pastureland is another matter entirely. If all the forests that were present in 1800 were to magically reappear or were regrown, it would reduce greenhouse gases by 87%. So while intense herding that mimics defensive posturing before rapacious predation, may indeed help grasslands revitalize, the elimination of livestock grazing on lands that would return to forests may be even more helpful.
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  263.  @mattayele1906  It may work somewhat to impede illegal migration, but it will not decrease drug smuggling one bit, not one ounce. There is too much profit in illegal substances, too much corruption of enforcement, to much money and sophistication on the criminal side of the equation. There are literally hundreds of was to smuggle drugs that are not, cannot and will not ever be stopped by such rudimentary simple minded ideas. And the southern border is not the only route into the USA.
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  264. So happy that DN picked up on this. This is one of the most significant public statements by a sitting Congressman this century. So very unfortunate that the good Christian church ladies that are funding this subversion, along with Koch and other elitist misanthropes who are the real architects and funders, will not see this or be aware of it, and would not understand it or be interested in it even if they did see it. And if they can construe the narrative of "right to life" in (what is to them a melange of meaningless verbiage) it would win their nod of approval. That is the world we live in. Rule of the evil through the manipulation and deception of the stupid. And as Gurdjieff said, "Even God has no defense against stupidity." Of course the left has their own version of deceiving and manipulating the stupid, but it is not nearly as effective, because it is not stupid enough, but with the rabid pursuit of meaningless gestures against symbols that nobody pays attention to anyway, and the censure of anybody not hysterical with a kind of reactionary pseudo-egalitarian woke fervor: that ignores near all of history and most of reality -- they come darn close. Isn't it time to give up this endlessly repeating cycle of futility we are kept enmired in so the power-elite can continue to consolidate their positions: which are even now all but unassailable by any means or from any psuedo-direction, such as the established left or right. It is time to evolve beyond government that is designed to be directed through manipulation by the power-elite and into a form of government that stimulates and elevates those with intelligence and talent without them needing to be the hand-maidens to the corrupt insular power-elite. We need to transform our political system into a NeoConfusian-technomeritocracy to serve the advancement of all citizens, without need for birth advantage, or privilege.
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  265. If somebody kicks Trumps butt -- I'll pay their attorney fees.
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  266. This is laughable: Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians.
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  267. Another breakthrough you can't invest in.
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  268.  @mossing234  Also somewhat positive on Argentina, although I don't see anything in Argentina's future that I don't see in Chile's horrible past under the influence of the Chicago school of economic misery.
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  269.  @notabene7381  The people who voted Hitler into power are very similar to the people who voted Trump into power. They were mostly from small towns. Almost none of them actually knew anything about Hitler or his policies. They backed him out of a sense of frustration at the eternal bickering in the democratic government and they ached for a authoritarian Hero/daddy figure to take control, turn back the socialist tide, and make Germany great again. Make Germany Great Again was actually Hitlers campaign slogan. I know it's hard to believe we live in the midst of such ignorance, but there it is. The same shit, and the same dirty tricks over and over and over, and almost nobody ever catches on. By the way, if some tyrant gets complete control, one of the first things they will do is get rid of the intellectuals, because their id driven base hates intellectuals, and the intellectuals are the only people smart enough to figure out what is going on.
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  270. There is no real history that your children will ever see. All history outside of primay sources of trade and accounting is a story and a narrative that is presented as fact. Including this documentary.
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  271.  Коп Kirsch  The Nike was an ABM and there were no Nikes in service in 1945. And none of them had fir.
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  272. Then you understand nothing about vaccines or the protection they provide. Good luck.
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  273. What reality do you live in? Tesla supplies free shop manuals for repair -- einstein.
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  274. IMHO the most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 16 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell, but I kinda doubt it, according to Wikipedia it's range is 18 miles. The American Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it and now the Germans have too. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada, but they pale in comparison to the capabilities of the German Panzerhaubitzen 2000 that the Dutch and Germans are supplying (unfortunately in extremely limited numbers). See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_DS6UvZXPo&t=148s The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, -- baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. This would be a truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vIPNElDkns&t=38s Estimates by Rand and other think tanks estimate that Russia has already used more than 70% of their advanced guided missiles in Ukraine and they will not be able to replace them in a timely fashion. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common towed artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon tech they may no longer have access to. In any event, even if Russia should win in Ukraine, and realistically there is very good chance of this, Russia is totally screwed in the long term. See here to find out why Peter Zeihan finds this to be the case in one of his many videos on the Geopop YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwPMtmuuVNw&t=176s As he said, "A hypersonic missile without a nuclear warhead is just a very expensive way to blow up a building." Let's hope they keep up the stupidity they have been exhibiting in this area, with their "terror weapons".
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  275. This is laughable: Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians.
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  276.  @1NavyLT  Apt and brilliant contrast.
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  277.  @incognitotorpedo42  No. . . but a lot of them are employed by media companies that are in the ad business. Or interviewed by them. So when a director for a media company has the choice of putting on an analyst who is negative on a company that they view as holding out on the advertising vig, it is only natural that they will tend to choose commentary from the analysts whose analysis supports those companies who pay for ad time/space and is negative about those that don't in the hope that this unstated policy may coerce non advertisers into paying up to protect their product from negative spin. In other words your are right about analytical practice, but you fail to consider the effect of the editorial decisions in media companies whose objective is to sell ads, not as is commonly supposed: to inform the public. Yes the tail does wag the dog, but in Tesla's case it only effects the stock price and not the stellar manufacturing and engineering performance.
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  278. With any luck this FUD will cause another dip in Tesla. So strange to want the stock you own to lose value. Just so you can buy more at a discount of course.
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  279. It would really be a shame if Iran assassinated Trump for revenge. Oh what would we do then?
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  280. I suspect that most who read this realize that this is absolute disinformation and has already been debunked. From Snopes: In late April 2015, the fake news outlet World News Daily Report published an article reporting that two Central Intelligence Agency agents were arrested by “minutemen” at the Mexican border while in possession of massive amounts of cocaine. Now the real question is, not whether or not this happened (it didn't) buy whether John Al Niel is so stupid that he cannot distinguish shit from toothpaste, or is he part of an active measure to further divide Americans, probably paid to do it, or just an asshole?
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  281.  @danhudson4369  Exactly, he distracts while Mercer, the Kochs, and Goldman Sachs and the banksters dismantle the US government, except for the military, so that they don't have to pay back any of the wealth and the prospect of future prosperity they surreptitiously stole from every citizen.
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  282. It's all a scam. They have no intention of stopping any drugs. The only way to do that is to decriminalize all drugs and treat addicts as medical patients, and give them as much drugs as they want for free, in a clinical setting, while offering therapeutic help. It worked in Switzerland and it will work here. But if they are kept illegal it makes dealing in them so profitable that it cannot be stopped and all it does is create more criminal billionaires. That is the real objective of US drug policy, to keep it a big big money enterprise with law enforcement, and the courts, and prisons, and all the dirty bankers who clean up the money that the criminals make. Without our stupid stupid approach of trying the same thing that does not work over and over drug plants would be the price of soy beans and not one more person would be abusing them than is now.
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  283. Please refer me to a statement Musk has made, that is not out of context, or made sarcastically or ironically that attempted to "normalize hate towards vulnerable people". If you can venture into the open internet from your safe-space to find the reference (sarcasm warning for the reading comprehension impaired).
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  284. Peter's interviews everywhere else: free.
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  285. Didn't Elon already say that 4680 would not be iron base?
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  286. I suggest you watch the latest test drives of Tesla's FSD -- the newest version uses only nets and no prior programming.
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  287. You think that people who disagree with this propaganda are sick, but they may just be more knowledgeable than you. This narrative can be refuted almost line for line, if not for the actual incidents it presents, for the isolated manner in which it seperates them from everthing else that was happening in the world at the same time, and the narrow view is takes in its judgements of them.The people who really need to learn some unbiased history as can be found in primary sources and integrated into a holistic view will not bother to do it, they would rather believe this incredibly biased and narrow narrative, as you apparently have, because it fits in with the tropes they already have conformation bias toward.
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  288.  @tiaturnbullchampionscoachi9587  The ancestors of the people who, as you claim, own everything, did not give themselves permission to act more brutally than anyone else, they merely had the means for their brutallity to triumph over less advanced forms of brutality. This documentary gives the false impression that all the various American Indian tribes were united in peaceful communion and trade. What an absolute crock. One of the very first thing the Natives tried to do to the colonist was to recruit them into their ongoing wars against other tribes. All human cultures contain brutes and saints and that is the whole truth despite the nonsense presented here.
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  289.  @125ZJK  My history doesn't make me uncomfortable at all. My family never owned slaves, in fact we harbored runaways on a PA farm as part of the underground railroad. I realize the human condition is universal, at least on earth, and all cultures have both saints and brutes. Not this nonsense that is now being spewed about European evil. All governments are evil and the most dangerous thing, outside of driving an auto and eating SAD that an American is exposed to, no matter their color.
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  290. Tesla is not in the fashion industry -- nitwit. Of all the major automakers Tesla is the most obsessed with engineering and forms follows function, unlike the fashion statements of Mercedes and its ilk. The German EVs are a decade behind and falling further behind each month.
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  291. The USA refused to sell f-35s to Turkey because of it's procurement of Russian SAMs. That would be one example of the USA refusing to sell arms to allies. It has also refused to sell F22 to anyone, even the counties willing to bankroll the redevelopment of the assembly lines. There are actually scores of weapons systems that the USA hold for exclusive use.
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  292. You have to crash into every oncoming car or you lose your warranty.
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  293. The purpose of nukes (until recent breakthroughs in limited military actions in undeclared wars) the purpose of nukes was. . . wait for it. . . to prevent nuclear war.
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  294.  @johnconner4695  Have they lost any "battles" since Korea? Skirmishes yes, especially in Vietnam, but battles? I I am not a military historian but a quick Google seems to indicate that the last time the USA lost a "battle" was at Chosen Reservoir.
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  295. Bro you have previously claimed that one in every four Russians suffers from a form of TB that is antibiotic resistant. Is this really true and if so what does this portend for the people that are inviting them into their communities? By the way, I am happy to have finally found your real YouTube channel.
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  296. Considering that the average driver drives about thirty five miles per day this will not be an issue. People will charge at home with an ordinary 220 connection, and it will be plenty for the average person. Also there is nothing at all keeping independent service centers from working on Teslas. And other than collision repairs, just what service do you imagine an EV actually needs?
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  297.  @kronosaurelius  While Tesla makes more per vehicle than any other OEM other than Mercedes, Ford cannot produce an EV without losing money. The entire EV space is not equal in any metric. Just because a few other OEMs have wait times does not mean what you think it does. There is no equality between the traditional ICE OEMs that would rather not be producing EVs at all and Tesla. There is a big difference between a wait time for an OEM that produces 20k or so EVs and one that is on track to producing 1.5 million this year. Your reasoning is simplistic and the result of erroneous FUD.
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  298.  TequilaOrWhiskey  Yep, if they were smart like the banksters that have you so brainwashed that you vote against your own best interest, they would just print their own money like the geniuses at the Federal Reserve. Dumb shit.
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  299. No hypersonic missile have yet been fired in anger anywhere on earth.
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  300. Model 3: Number one selling car model in Germany. That says it all.
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  301.  @xianshep  Yep he was just doing his earthling duty by ramming into the invader. Unfortunately for him, alien tech prevailed.
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  302.  @johndoekobe5619  Well, after all, the effects of some drugs, unlike alcohol, coffee, and cocaine, are quite glorious.
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  303. 3911 TOTAL tanks in storage, at present, according to the same source.
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  304.  @deanjones2525  They own most of everything now, and control pretty much everything either directly, or via the influence of their continual 24hr a day omnipresent media mindfuck. Like an example would be, you could think that some isolated primitive humans, or some independent rancher etc is not owned or controlled, but is oil or some other valuable resource is discovered on their land, well you know the end of that story.
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  305. The audience was filled with well paid Bloomburg shills. And the corporate media remains shameless and continually insults the intelligence of the public with it's partisan spin.
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  306. Doesn't matter, he won't live long. Unless he is in max or solitary. Even then -- probably not.
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  307. Disclaimer: I will not listen to this pod cast, basically because I have no interest in your opinion. But it came up on my YouTube auto feed and I am responding to your entire approach, which is signaled in your video title. You are lost in a world of concepts, and like all who are, have gone awry. If a child is abused the chances of it growing up to be an abuser are heightened. Same with groups of people. It's really that simple.
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  308. The most despised woman in America says that nobody likes the candidate who has received more donations than any other in all of history. I would say that Clinton is in desperate need of an intervention -- but probably has no real friends.
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  309. The person responsible for this was George Bush -- directly responsible. He ignored the facts, ignored the reality on the ground and decided to make his buddies in the defense industry and gov. contractors rich. Also note that George Bush has been supported monetarily his entire adult life by Saudi proxies
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  310. DNC -- House of Lies
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  311. You got it backward Kelli, Sanders let us down.
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  312.  @jorgealvarado3512  You can legally buy the seeds. You can legally grow the flowers. You cannot legally harvest the straw or pods. They are legal only as ornamental plants. If you grew enough poppies to take care of chronic pain on your property you would receive an abrupt visit from the police or DEA and be charged with a number of serious crimes. The seeds are legal to eat. I guess tea from the seeds is legal, but you would have to grow a lot of plants to get enough seeds to do you any good for chronic pain or take care of any addiction to inject-able street drugs. The DEA has already curtailed the sale of pods for ornaments. Used to be a big market on ebay. But quietly it went away. You used to be able to easily get seeds that were not washed with chemicals or water. Now not so easily. Eventually that will all go quietly away too. The AMA does not want to give up it monopoly on medicine. In many countries like Canada pain meds like hydrocodone are OTC meds that anyone can get without a prescription.
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  313.  @MBarberfan4life  Denying the facts that is all you TSLA shorters have.
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  314. The first part is unlikely the second impossible.
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  315.  @powershift2025  With good reason, processed foods alone supports our medical and pharmaceutical industries, which are counting on Americans eating carcinogens (like hotdogs) and becoming chronically ill at an early age, and wondering Y.
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  316.  @DK-ev9dg  Well I don't believe China will cease to exist in seven years either, but it is certainly not the happiest, healthiest, richest , or cleanest , actually it really isn't any of the things you claim, and the evidence is readily apparent if you actually have access to the facts. Denmark or Norway are the happiest depending on the year. USA is the richest and most innovative and most powerful by far, and obviously the most influential. Japan is the healthiest. Norway may be the best managed but that is a parameter that is difficult to determine. Just because you have been lied to and believe your claims doesn't make them true. Do some research with some actual facts, if you really have access to them.
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  317.  @RafaelBenedicto  It is totally a coincidence. The stock moved because of the effect of it being shorted in front of his published plan to sell off 10% of his Tesla stock, and the rebound effect of those shorts. This has happened every time he sold a tranche of his Tesla stock. To seriously, and I am not assuming that your comment was not humor because it is funny, to seriously think that the people who are aware of this interview could move the market because of it, on the same day that it happened, or that anything discussed had some import regarding the value of Tesla, evices a serious lack of understanding of the magnitude of the market in Tesla stock. Here is some glimpse of that magnitude. Tesla is a Trillion dollar company. If you could count one digit every second if you counted twenty four seven with no breaks, you could count to a million in about 12 days. Using the same conditions it would take you about 31 years to count to a billion. To count to a trillion it would take you 31,000 years, and you would really need a bathroom break at that point.
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  318. The less I pay attention to Bloomberg and it's ilk the better my portfolio does. More meaningless FUD about Tesla. Remember this, Bloomberg's business is not informing you, Bloomberg's business is selling advertising slots. Tesla does not advertise, Bloomberg takes every opportunity to deliver FUD on Tesla because they refuse to pay the ad vig.
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  319. Being a white male I have to wonder what bizarro universe you live in. Perhaps the imaginary one found on Fox news or the brain cells in the urinal at your local Bund meeting hall.
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  320. No, I don't think there is much chance of Cruz rejoining the human race. Just look at him, you can tell by the semi successful attempt at human facial proportions, and the curiously oily skinlike coating that he wears over his insectiod Varicore (R) subdermal mesoskeleton.
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  321.  @JayJay5244  See Dana's comment above. Also: "Sense" especially to governments, is often, not what is apparent to casual observation. If the main current of prognostication by the usual geopolitical darlings is even approximately true, we may well see an era where China has to make concessions, allow the sale of key state owned industries among which is steel production (which in china is vastly underwritten economically by the CCP) and allow the foreign ownership of domestic industries outside of Tesla which for some reason it allows to remain entirely owned by private investors, the vast majority of whom are Americans.
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  322. It's not Satan we have to worry about - or Spiderman -- It's the acts people do in the name of their favorite fiction. I agree that war isn't the answer, and lots of questions aren't the question.
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  323. When you live in the right wing-nut fantasyland, it all makes sense.
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  324.  @karlmiller5009  There is a monumental difference between being consciously aware and consciousness. They are not synonymous or interchangeable.
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  325.  @sinkec  The "now" is merely the bodies analogue of the cache of a computer. Very fast memory right on the CPU. For the human quite automatic thought-centric associative mind there is no present or now. All perceptions of "now" take place in the past, even one's immediate apperceptive experience.
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  326. I think that Tesla moving sideways right now is the result of the day traders of all magnitudes causing a compressed homeostasis. Seems quite likely to me that when they abandon day-trading Tesla, because of the lack of day to day volatility, that it will increase in value rapidly until the traders intervene again.
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  327.  @davidvosspoor4694  Many years ago I lived in Tucson. One day the chief of police of some nearby suburb (I don't remember which) decided that the officers would stop carrying firearms, since there was virtually no violent crime there at the time, and start carrying briefcases and info on smoke alarms and other things of that nature to help the community in a positive way. If I remember correctly a third of the force quite immediately.
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  328.  @niccolea2086  You got it. It was decades ago that researchers at the University of Maryland proved that people who relied on Fox New for their information on current events, knew less about what was going on than people who had no interest in the news at all and did not follow current events. There is only one explanation for this, they are lied to continually and don't realize it or don't care. Fox news cannot be sued in court for lying because they claim that their programming is for entertainment only. True.
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  329. HOw can the fact that VW has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the very "environmental" groups that have been holding up Tesla Berlin go unreported in Germany and basically everywhere?
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  330. I suspect that at this point, expecting the republicans to act in the spirit of fair government is a pipe dream. They will do everything they can to carry out the directives of their masters: Koch Industries, Robert Mercer and other billionaire nuts and Goldman Sachs and their ilk. Why would you even think for a second that anything but partisan cheating and lying will take place? Mitch couldn't care less about the protests and outrage, and the people of Kentucky are too dumb to vote him out.
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  331. If you know of any house set on fire because a Tesla was parked in the garage please let me know.
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  332. So you had the chance to make a fortune investing in Tesla and blew it. Congratulations.
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  333. I have occasion to drive through the most economically repressed area in the USA every week, that being the hard coal region of PA such as Shamokin and Shenadoah, and even there I occasionally see a Tesla. Which I find impressive.
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  334. OK, eveyone now know that you are not the brightest little firefly in the forest. Are you happy now? One thing the dear leader has accomplished is he has made people proud to be stupid.
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  335.  @abrielrobertsson4160  stevia: Sloan Kettering: Laboratory studies indicate weak mutagenic activity with large doses
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  336.  @YDdraigGoch43  Every comment that is expressed by anyone is a tell. Actually every thought is a tell including this one. What you chose to go through the trouble of commenting on is a tell. You can deny this if if pleases you to do so. That is also a tell.
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  337. Not so. Facts mean nothing to people who are convinced by lies. "It is easier to deceive a person than to convince them that they have been deceived." If you really think that facts matter to these pinheads you haven't been paying attention for the last fifty years.
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  338. You do realize that all the Teslas in the UK are sold -- right? That the waiting time is currently increasing? It is not a sales problem. If Tesla delivered less EVs in the UK last month it is because there were less Teslas shipped to the UK.
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  339. Americans don't pronounce any names correctly if they are not English. Because they use English phonics on names whose language of origin do not use English phonics. Nor should they. But we still don't call Vogner Wagner.
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  340. I would say it is far more likely that the internet exposed the lack of empathy that was always present.
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  341. What should law enforcement be doing? Investigating investment bankers, hedge fund managers, and scumbags like Robert Mercer.
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  342.  @andrewpolito9244 Unfortunately: probably more true than we wish.
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  343. Tulsi For VP or sec of state.
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  344.  @benweiss4956  It basically came into existence to a significant degree because of the professionals that the GI bill generated after WW2.
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  345. Alfred needs to keep up with the military balance of power. In recent wargames in Thailand, scores of China's most advanced jets were quickly destroyed by the Thia air force using Swedish jets that are in no way close to as capable as those of the USA. Chinese military power is mostly hype.
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  346. This election is firmly in the hands of the Millennials and younger people. If they vote for Bernie in the democratic primary, he will win the election. But will they get their heads out of their phones and facebook long enough to find out where and when to vote? And will they give up the video games and social media for the hour it will take to vote in the primary. And do they even know when their primary is? If they manage to overcome their almost total lack of activism Bernie will win. But remember the OK boomers shut down the war in Vietnam. The Millenials have done practically nothing that demands actual participation and doesn't involve a rage and molly. The Vietnam war would still be going on if it had been up to them. OK Millennials -- put up, or forever, shut the fuck up.
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  347. Does that "gaining" metric really matter in a segment that is expanding? What would seem more relevant to me is how many VW ICE sales are Tesla's increasing sales deprecating? How many would-be VW ICE buyers are buying Teslas instead?
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  348. To live in "interesting times" is of course a Chinese curse. So I am supposing that your comment is ironic, even though that does not come through in it.
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  349. Comparisons between corona and the flue is called a false equivalency. The flu has already spread throughout the US population. The corona is just starting -- with a four day doubling rate. You figure it out. It is ten times more fatal than the flu. Remember the chess player who took a grain of rice on the first square of a chess board and double it every square, and by the end of the sixty four squares you own the world. This will not be over in a few weeks, it will go on for months and almost everyone will get it. Hand washing etc is bullshit. You breath the air that someone who is infected has breathed out and you have it. And they may not even be symptomatic. Males in good health in their forties seem to have a high fatality rate. This is gonna suck big time and go on until everyone is exhausted, plus we get all our drugs from China and India and have no stockpiles of necessary medical devices. Fucked.
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  350. Both the creme and the scum rise to the top. Unfortunately at the top the natural course is that over time even creme turns to scum.
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  351. Clearly. . . but not all the wealthy, though one may consider wealth beyond a certain level as complicit, but more important than wealth is the power to manipulate the economy and all else through the banking system, and financial sectors.
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  352. Actually it is not amazing at all. And they are not the only ones with such problems.
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  353.  @connormcgregor4578  If you think that different people will own the government under Biden than own it under Trump -- you have just not been paying attention.
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  354.  @smileygladhands  Or actually find out what they believe and you will find they are more crazy than the pedestrian kindness of their public face portents.
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  355. CNN and MSNBC report: In the race between Bernie and Buttegieg: Pete came in second over-all but Bernie only managed to place next to last.
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  356. I will not only get excited, I will finally build my electric powered WIG hovercraft and not have to deal with a poison belching turbocharged boxer engine. If any craft could fly electric it's a WIG machine, once your on the bubble nothing is more efficient, not wheels, not tracks, not conventional wings, nothing.
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  357.  @richd3480  I agree, and stop the nonsense about people arrested for pot when a teen being banned for life. Actually this is the prime reason that Switzerland is what it is, extreme training and testing before you get to own or operate a firearm. My cousin had to turn in her concealed carry permit when she got approval for medical pot in PA. What absolute nonsense. What about alcohol -- hey no problem, you can drink and still carry concealed even in a bar. Incredible stupidity and failure to intersect with reality -- our leaders are corrupt morons.
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  358. Bernie $ VS Bloomburg $ Apologies to those who took arithmetic in elementary school. I know you already know this -- even so you may not be able to envision the difference in these fortunes and this explanation may help. Bernie has a stack of two million one dollar bills that he wants to give to Judy. Bernie is old and can only give her one dollar each second. If Bernie is wearing a catheter and doesn't need to go to the bathroom and can hand Judy dollar bills 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: how long will it take Bernie to give Judy his two million dollars? answer: There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hours and 24 hours in a day: Therefore Bernie can hand Judy 86,400 dollar bills every day. So he can give her $86,000 per day. So it would take Bernie just about 23 days and three and a half hours to give Judy two million dollars. (since $86,400 goes into $2,000,000 a little over 23.15 times) In twenty three days Bernie could hand Judy his two million dollars, one dollar at a time, if he can stay awake, and he can, cause he is a vastly woke dude. How long would it take little Mike to hand Judy his 60,2 billion dollars one dollar at a time? Mike is also old and wearing a catheter, is being fed intravenously and attended by his personal medical staff. Through the wonders of modern pharmacology and a neural implant he purchased, Mike can also stay awake. But due to age Mike can also only hand Judy one dollar bill per second. So Mike, like Bernie can give Judy $86,400 per day. There are 6,759.26 ($86,400) in 60.2 billion dollars so it would take Mike six hundred and ninety six thousand seven hundred and fifty nine days to hand Judy his 60.2 billion dollars. That's 696,759.26 days. That many days equals one thousand nine hundred and eight years and a few days short of eight months. So it would take Mike 1908.93 years to hand Judy all his money (that we know of). Bernie would be broke in 23 days. Mike would be broke in 1,909 years. Who is the oligarch? Addendum: Please note that since Mike is a capitalist who profits, not from his labor or producing goods but by investment, his wealth will actually be increasing by more than $86,400 per day because of profits on his fortune. So in reality, no matter how many thousands of years he spends handing Judy his money, he would never be able to do it and would always have more to hand her each day than he did the day before. Addendum PS: Old Jewish wisdom: "Every time somebody makes something for nothing, somebody else makes nothing for something." In Bloomburg's and the other billionares cases this "somebody else" is you and everyone else. If you don't understand this you are truly blind and will never understand why wealth is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and you are being robbed in ways you neither understand nor can do anything about without a fundamental paradigm shift in our laws, government, and cultural world-view.
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  359. More like: any 155 gun and American Excalibur shells are the real Orc armor slayer.
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  360.  @cmyasse8603  And if your really oblivious to facts and just repeat idiotic fictional talking points you say. "Yeh well Bernie has three houses and is a millionaire". . . Thinking you made some kind of point. You did. The point you made is that you're really stupid and don't know that one in every two hundred Americans is a millionaire, and that having a total worth of two million just about make a family middle class.
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  361.  @freelance_commie  Forgive me but I do not believe that anyone knows what will happen in the future. But you are quite correct in that this fountainhead of corruption will not go quietly without a struggle. The sole objective of the power-elite is to maintain and increase their power. Any of them that seems to act counter to this axiom is truly an anomaly. Nevertheless, no one, including you and me, knows what the future will bring in specifics. Sure you can be almost guaranteed to be correct if you say something like, "The lesson of history is that people will not learn from the lessons of history." But if you contend to know what will happen in specifics such as campaign finance reform, you are just kidding yourself.
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  362. So smart that Elon should consider it.
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  363. That's a preposterous assumption on your part since no one who had been executed has ever returned to let us know.
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  364. AI stared in BCE 20,000 when stories, now called religions, were put forth to control behavior, in the place of more instinctive direction. Later came reason -- for some, for others 23k years and still slow stepping.
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  365. The Dutch had these in storage, but how many did they actually send? I have heard between four and eight, but no one who is talking seems to know. Italy could also send them if it cared to. The most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 12 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell. The American Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada. The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. A truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon western tech they no longer have access to.
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  366. Seriously? . . . If you had been paying attention, Snowden spilled the beans years ago that everything we do on our phones, computers, and other networked devices is recorded and stored. That includes everywhere you take them, and everyone you interact with.
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  367. Because they are caught up in the omnipresent media mindfuck.
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  368. A "fact" that Hyman just throws out there is that after the Civil War that former slaves constituted the majority of agricultural workers in the USA. I have not been able to find any stats on this "fact", but I find the prospect unlikely in the extreme: being that the total black population at the end of the civil war was 6.5 million, and the population of the USA was over 35.5 million. And at the time, agricultural work involved the vast majority of the total population. So obviously his "fact" that he just spewed, which went unquestioned by Dr. R and probably not scrutinized by the majority of views and just accepted is an outright fabrication, otherwise known as a lie. What utter nonsense, just opinion and meat partisan views hidden in a cloud of yesterdays nutritional news, by a salesman, and an advocate of the unsustainable notion that people should consume pasture raised animals. My opinion of the content on this channel has nose-dived.
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  369. Maybe, but I doubt if. More likely a matter of too much fake news consumed by an psychologically unstable individual.
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  370. Get a brain.
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  371. Fat chance, even the people who buy them don't know in advance about the five second limitation on full power. What a joke.
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  372.  @AndiDuck  Bernie is the real deal and has been since he was twenty. Bernie is not only the most popular politician in the USA he is the most popular politician in the world. Trump was broke when he bragged about his billions and he kept being able to borrow money from Deutsche Bank because Russian oligarchs cosigned his loans. If Bernie gets the nomination he will crush Trump.
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  373. You are talking centuries if not millennia that we have been waiting for that. Russia will be gone before it will be ready to transition from the most magnificent kleptocracy of all history, to a land that understands anything other than alcohol addled paranoia.
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  374. China has way more nukes than you seem to think. Some of them were just discovered last week, more of them are not counted because they are unknown. China has never signed any nuclear treaty.
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  375. Maybe they figured out that they and the CCP did not have similar interests or priorities and that buying a car like that fake MG brand which is actually made by a company owned by the Chinese state is literally working against their own best interests, as far as their future and the future of those they care about is concerned.
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  376.  @LUK77ACH  Russia truly has a lot to answer for in the eyes of the peoples it abused in it's drive for territory and ports. What surprises me is the number of those who are willing to forgive forget for a little power and money. Most people think that the biggest genocide in all of history was what the Nazis did to the Jews, but it was really what the Soviets did to the Ukrainians that tops the list. But they did it through intentional starvation instead of gas chambers, so it seems less horrid, but it really was not less horrid.
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  377. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  378.  @johnpatrickgarvin2092  Not only that, animal agriculture is the main source of greenhouse gases, far more than all the cars and trucks combined.
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  379. @Jenny Jen The animals in factory farms are LIVE if you call being tortured all your life living. Jesus , do some research and get educated. Main reason antibiotics are failing -- animal agriculture. Main reason people develop heart disease -- eating meat. Main source of green house gas world wide -- animal agriculture. Main reason that water and food is wasted -- animal agriculture. Main cause of human disease, whose death toll dwarfs the COVID 19, eating meat and especially preserved meats like sausages and hotdogs, cold cuts etc which the World Health Organization has classified as a class one carcinogens years ago. It is as healthy to eat meat as to smoke or expose yourself to plutonium which are also class one carcinogens. Jesus, do some research and get educated.
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  380. @Jenny Jen I don't believe that this has been proven. HIV is thought to have passed to humans from eating chimpanzees. As far as I know, no study has been done to demonstrate that someone eating meat handled by an infected worker cannot contract the virus. This virus has been found to be viable on surfaces inside cruse ships after 17 days, so why not meat that has to be refrigerated and consumed in days? Let me put it this way: If an infected worker sneezed on a slice of baloney do you think it would be safe to eat it?
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  381.  @issyjas3309  I think that many "math teachers" at the high school level and especially below that, really have no understanding of what they are teaching outside of having memorized the maths. If you ask them what practical use some equation may have, a lot of them will have no idea even though they know how to solve it. Many people have trouble being interested in, and/or learning, something that is just memorization of rules without any info on how and why it was developed and is used for.
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  382. Are you aware that huge new intercontinental missile bases have just been discovered in China. These most recent discoveries give evidence that China is now the equal of the USA in intercontinental nuclear capability. China has never signed any nuclear nonproliferation treaty or any treaty limiting its nuclear capabilities. It has invaded and taken Tibet and is continually making incursions into Indian territory that frequently result in armed conflict. Who is the warmonger?
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  383. This is such bull, stating that rare earth minerals are crucial. People, rare earth minerals are not rare at all, they are literally everywhere, but their processing is highly toxic, which is why China holds most of them, because we care somewhat about how much toxic poison a company dumps and China doesn't.
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  384. That's why he is dead. I don't believe for one second that he killed himself. The other elite perverts had him killed. Money rules.
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  385. Food insecurity and starvation in a world that produces more food than it can use, and feeds most of it to animals it keeps in shameful torturous conditions and eats them, even though it makes them sick. What is wrong with this picture?
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  386. Wow, almost all the disinformation about Musk in one place. I always love to see this kind of crap presented as factual, it sometimes results in a discount on Tesla stock. I always support the TEsla short narrative that you are spreading: good job girls. I would truly love to see Tesla valuation tank: I love the opportunity to buy cheap. Less than a year ago Tesla was down to $124 a share now it is around $175. Smart people bought at the bottom, while the experts continued to short. FYI more money has been lost betting against Tesla than any other stock in the history of the US market. To date Tesla short sellers have lost over 65 billion dollars betting the company would fail ( the actual figure is closer to 80 billion if you count the 15 billion they lost recently. On the other hand TSLA stock went public in July 2010 and has since returned 13,000% to shareholders. All this despite the continual media blitz to discredit everything about it, almost all of it spun disinformation and outright lies. I don't give a shit about Elon's personal life or whether some VW group sponsored fake environmentalists hate him or if you do -- get a life.
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  387. I personally would like "most of all" to see Tesla fold in McMurty motors, perhaps enter formula E for free ads, and offer an electric fancar convertible at slightly above the miata price point. Really, who would even consider a Porsche or BMW if that were the case, . . . much less a Mustang or Camero, or vette? Come on, a fancar roadster with plaid motors -- you would basically need AI to actually drive it, if you wanted to approach the limits of the performance envelope. You might have to wear a g-suit.
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  388. This one is wrong: Strong Advocacy For The "Traditional" Family.
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  389. Here is the most important thing the Tesla investors, traders, and potential investors need to know, and I cannot figure out a way to find out the data, but perhaps someone else does know how to find it. Which media companies (especially financial media companies) are owned or associated with parent companies that have or are shorting Tesla stock? I have recently come across a post that claimed that Yahoo's parent company shots Tesla stock, and thus the incredible amount of negative disinformation about Tesla. Yes it is not as sexy a subject as the amount of space in the CT frunk, but it is the most important question about Tesla over all.
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  390.  @Destorrrrr  Way dude, Tesla is sold out. and it's orders have doubled in parts of the USA. If you buy a model3 LR it doesn't even take two years of driving to be less expensive than an ICE car that sells for 10k less, and from then on you are saving loads of money that you would have been giving to big oil. Many people are selling their Teslas for more than they paid for them and buying another Tesla, thinking they can drive it for two years and sell it for more than they paid for it. Maybe, maybe not. I guess you want a Tesla but can't afford it. Be patient. They will always retain value better than any other EV, but eventually you will see used Teslas for less than they are presently selling for. The average eight year old model S is still supposed to have 90% battery, so that may be a segment that will be undervalued in the future.
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  391. Religion, or as I call it -- insanity.
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  392.  @Kayzef2003  Nothing is more of a fantasy than the images that the Chinese government struggles to maintain in the eyes of their much abused but nonetheless compliant and homogenious population.
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  393.  @tantzer6113  And just what is the authority to which this imagined "green light" is given? What are your sources? Do you imagine that Saudi Arabia or Indonesian policies are dictated by the USA? Nice fail.
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  394. Won't matter, doesn't matter: Tesla model Y is the best selling car in Euope of any kind including gas cars. The reason for this is it offers the most value for the money. If I were a Tesla worker I would not want a union, I would want the employee stock program that they have instead. This program has resulted in more millionaires working at Tesla than any union would ever. This whole thing stated because of a few workers. The vast number of Tesla employees in Sweden, Denmark, and Germany do not want a union. These are the facts: People will continue to buy Teslas in Europe as long as they continue to offer more value than any other vehicles. Don't like the facts? Too bad. The Germany unions have decided not to support this strike, because it would be illegal for them to do so. It is much better to own part of the company that you work for than to set up another bureaucracy of questionable management.
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  395. The great democratic socialist country of Canada, supports the dirtiest most polluting industry on the planet. Everything is corrupt.
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  396.  @mydogsbutler  Musk couldn't care less. The only one you will be hurting is small retail investors and idealistic employees.
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  397.  @piked261  Lol, the fascists come from the east this time bobo.
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  398. Along with everything else Elon is endlessly amusing.
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  399. A modest suggestion: All police whenever on duty must wear body cams that have no off switch. If they infringe on someone's rights or life and the body cam is off -- for any reason including malfunctions -- they are charged with a criminal offense and fired. Too simple? Too real? I say it would end a lot of the abuse the police now subject us to.
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  400. A real microcosm of the relationship of the financial industry, especially that part of it involved with mass media and ad revenue, and Tesla: Financial media basically live in a naive fantasy-world where not only is it not an anomaly when the tail wages the dog: it is expected. To them a story is not of higher value the more true it is, like in science and manufacturing, it is of higher value the more attention-getting that it is. Oh if they could only persuade Tesla to pay the advertising vig: perhaps with continual FUD and not recognizing the titanic positive effects it has had on specific economies, and the world in general.
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  401. How anyone could have lived through the biggest concentration of wealth in human history, that moved worker financial power into the hands of banker and market elites in a manner that makes the gilded age look tarnished and say what you are claiming beggars my credulity.
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  402.  @kingofthecatnap5422  The healthiest people on the planet eat a plant based highly nutritious diet. There is no way around that fact.
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  403. I am what most would call a progressive, but when I see a comment like this it really makes me question the political company I keep. The problem is that the right is even more divorced from reality and living in illusory concepts that have supplanted any possibility of intelligence than the so-called liberals, but comments like yours and most that appear on venues like this are not really that different from the polarized waste of time that MAGA thrives on.
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  404. Crypto mining is one of the stupidest ideas ever. Spending real resources to produce a fictional product. Crypto is going back where it came from -- 0.
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  405.  @RandleBeckford  USA you can drive practically anywhere. Russia most of Russia has no roads a few trains and dog sleds. Look at a map of Russia outside of the cities, some RR and one or two highways, look ma no roads.
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  406. The people should push them out.
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  407. My dad had the patent on the ground fault interrupter circuit that keeps you from being electrocuted in your bathroom, and welders from the same. Same thing happened. Never got a penny from it and it's in every new bathroom for decades.
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  408. No -- the USA is a kleptocracy posing as a plutocracy.
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  409. You make the common mistake of equating being stoned on pot with being drunk on booze. Does drinking coffee make you a worse driver? -- No it doesn't -- it is a drug, it has psychological and physiological effects (for those of you who still think there is a distinction there) yet only an idiot would think that drinking coffee causes traffic accidents. All recreational molecules are not equal. All of their effects are not equal. Some drugs will actually make you able to drive better in some situations. The entire Nazi blitz of WW2 was an intoxicated action with the troops on a amphetamines handed out by their COs. Why do you think that athletes preform better under the influence of certain drugs? Everything is a drug. My words are drugs that are now bringing about an emotional and intellectual effect in you, anger is a drug. It is much more dangerous to drive angry than stoned on pot. But leave it to the simple minded to reduce everything to the simplistic modes of thinking that they use out of laziness and habit. Then drugs are drugs (except for the coffee, chocolate, sugar, natural flavorings, environmental contaminants, news reports, books, thoughts, environmental toxins and having to deal with imbeciles on a regular basis.) Didn't you catch on yet. Almost everything that politicians say is a lie to increase or maintain their power. It goes no further than that. Also the worst people to put in charge of things in the role of a leader are the people who really want to be the leader. They will lead you straight into their own bespoke form of insanity. Wait and see. . . .
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  410. Yeah you realize both the parties are corrupt but you are focusing on the wrong aspect of the problem. You can't destroy this hydra of corruption by attacking one of the heads, you have to destroy the root of the corruption. Figure out how to make Campaign Finance Reform sexy, and save the nation from the criminal scumbags that are now stealing our nation. If you have two brain cells to rub together you can figure out that the funding of politics is nothing but a system of corruption that was put in place to steal as much as possible for as long as possible. A populist movement cannot win as long as the worst among us: the Mercers, Kochs, and Goldman Sachs minions, control everything through a system of corruption that they themselves have devised. Sure it seems like there are a thousand issues: Trump giving away national assets like Putin did to a bunch of rich unevolved assholes who are proud of their predation upon the populace, and their endless red herrings that get all the single issue voters at one anothers' throats: climate change, fundamentalist morons who think that the world is six thousand years old and will end tomorrow, wars in support of private business interests, wholesale surveillance of the citizens, a ridiculous number of psychopaths with badges who believe they are licensed to kill, etc. etc. etc. But I am telling you that Robert Mercer understands that the lynch pin of control is campaign finance, that’s why he funds Citizens United, and Britbart, and put Trump in office by giving him key words found by Cambridge Anaylitica to repeat over and over, in near meaningless lies, that the mindless fools that watch and believe Fox News and similar founts of lies were responding to on a limbic level. He knows that campaign finance is the key to power – do you? Until this is done, the present plutocratic kleptocracy will swiftly recover from any temporary setbacks, including bids by third parties which they will absorb. Sorry if it boars you. It’s not up to your opinion, this is the game theory, this is the facts. Robert Mercer is using the power of Artificial Intelligence against the population and government of the USA to make your voice and vote more meaningless than it already is. Campaign finance reform must be done, not because it is somebodies interest or pet interest, but because it is the only thing that CAN be done to stop this avalanche of shit the one percent is burying us under. Goldman Sachs gave the American public a choice in the last election and that choice was, “Would you rather live in shit or piss.” And thanks to 80,000 rust belt fools who were conned by a New York City conman, America chose shit. And until campaign finance is addressed and totally deprivatized you will only have a choice between shit and piss in all the coming elections. Unless a real populist like Bernie is nominated (don’t hold your breath) as he should have been, and reforms this madness. The shit we are in now is because of the neoliberal idiots who supported and cheated for Hillary and voted for her in the primary even though all the polls showed Bernie as way more likely to beat Trump than her. Trump knew it, he even said it, Cambridge Anaylitica probably told him, and still the Hillary supporters deny it. As Gurdjieff wrote, “Even God has no defense against stupidity.” Blessings to those of evolving conscience.
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  411. I suggest that instead of referring to Trump supporters and other groups who as Mcluhan said, attempt to drive into the future by the view in their rear view mirror, as conservatives, because in reality they are conserving nothing, but rather destroying much of value without understanding it's value or function. So instead of loaded names like "right wing" etc. lets call them what they are: regressives.
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  412. If you can't do it without a drug, you really don't know what the hell you are talking about, which puts you firmly in the middle of the bell curve of wanna-be-mystics. Real mysticism is a physical alteration of your metabolism that leads to real higher states that you enter because of real insights. The reason these external substances work is because you body is set-up to utilize similar substances that it can produce itself. Unfortunately this is not available in some McDonalds of enlightemnent even if it does have all the trappings of ceremony and such. It's probably a good thing that many westerners are at least experiencing a pale and distorted reflection of real enlightenment from these substances, but ultimately if they do not lead you to the real way to expand consciousness, they are just a ride at the funhouse. If you have never experienced a natural expansion of consciousness that is even more intense than any hallucinogen then it is easy to see why you would think that such drug experiences are similar to real enlightenment. They are not. I have experienced both, many times, and only people who have never experience the real thing could look upon this and the topics of discussion here as impressive. But given the choice of the consensus consciousness of modern humans and that of those who have taken some intense psychadelic I would say do the acid, or mescaline or DMT or whatever, it will give you a hint, but just that.
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  413. Fine reporting. The time is almost here, when it will be impossible to hide acts of unjustifiable violence, against people, other animals, and our environment. The Corona has taken more people in one day than 9/11, and burning coal to generate electricity causes exponentially more deaths than that -- exponentially. And in reality ice cream posses more of a threat to your life than Islamic terrorism. . . . But what is news"?
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  414. Depends entirely on where you live. Houses are still at bargain basement levels if you can live anywhere.
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  415. A criminal wrapped in a flag. That's the trope: display the flag, wear the flag (probably illegal) and disrespect the flag by associating it with the antithesis of everything it symbolizes.
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  416.  @darylfoster7944  This seems like a silly comment to me. People will still be able to drive manually Elroy -- so no snow-days thanks to FSD -- sorry.
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  417. Things are not worse than they used to be, they are very much better in almost every regard. But social media and political AHs have many bears of little brain believing things are getting worse.
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  418. I forgot: who was it who ran against Trump and lost?
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  419. At the time of the American Revolution approximately ten percent of the US population was German. That is the reason English was not established as the official language. During the American Revolution more Continental Soldiers died in British prison ships harbored in the Hudson Bay than on the battlefield. Probably due to the love and kindness of the Empire for it's "kid". Today the largest ethnic group in the USA is German. For you to think that the USA is a scion of Great Britain as opposed to a radial rebuttal of everything it represented is a ludicrous example of megalomania. The USA had more to do with the shaping of the UK than the opposite. What is hard to understand about an undeserving people having their asses saved twice by a former colony that they abused? The biggest mistake the USA ever made was entering WW1. If the Americans had allowed the Germans to win after Russia collapsed: no Hitler, no WW2, no extermination of Jews and probably Ukranians, and an end result quite like the EU today anyway. Stupid, Stupid decision. But it did prove Edward Bernays theories about the processes of influencing the masses on an unconscious level when his Council on Foreign Relations turned America from firmly antiwar to prowar in a matter of months.
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  420.  J B  In case you haven't noticed ALL governments are corrupt. Governments are the number one killer of people throughout the world. And I am not talking about wars with other governments. I am talking about killing their own citizens. That is the reality.
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  421.  @carmichaelmoritz8662  Of course they are. Most people given the opportunity for a big score, relative to their wealth are corrupt. All countries are corrupt because they concentrate power into the hands of a few, and as my mama told me: power corrupts.
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  422.  @carmichaelmoritz8662  Or, if you believe that old fart Plato: nobody who seeks power should be given power.
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  423. Apoplectic: better look it up again Elroy.
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  424. Trump tactic is to scare industry with the threat of expensive government regulations. We don't need a huge gov to do the right thing, only a bounty on polluters. Huge fines that are shared with private individuals or companies that uncover polluters.
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  425. My question to you is: Should just the descendants of slaves from the Atlantic slave trade to the USA be compensated or the descendants of all slaves? Cuba received three times the number of African slaves as the USA, and Brazil received five times that amount. And the number of black African slaves that were exported to the middle east and north Africa equaled the number exported to the Americas. Why stop there: almost everybody has slaves or serfs in their family history. Most of Europe was used as a resource for slaves by Rome. The Islamic Caliphate raided the coasts of Italy, and all of Europe as far as Iceland for slaves for more than two centuries, yet I do not hear the descendants of these slaves (those that survived to have descendants: which were few) crying for reparations. Perhaps Aramco and Saudi Arabia should reparate all white Europeans for their ancestor's barbarism? Discrimination is a separate issue than reparations. Why should a family (such as my own) who never owned slaves, who in fact were active in the underground railroad and harbored runaways on their farm in PA be penalized for something they had nothing to do with? And in reality who was it who took the black African slaves into captivity in the first place? It was mostly other black Africans and Moslem slave traders. Should their descendants pay? If not, why not? Why not trace the money that the companies who profited from slave labor made, and if any of it still exists in the form of personal or corporate wealth, then confiscate it and disperse it to the descendants of those who were enslaved by these concerns, instead of expecting a handout from those who had absolutely nothing to do with it and are more than likely the descendants of slaves themselves, who got over it and moved on.
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  426.  @likewatermusik  Weak FUD pud. It has been confirmed with data from the National Transport Safety Board, compiled by AutoinsuranceEZ, which says that hybrid vehicles have the highest fire risk. Fully electric vehicles, on the other hand, were deemed far safer than both hybirds and gas cars; they are far less likely to catch fire, with just 25.1 fires per 100,000 sales. That’s compared to 3,474 hybrid fires and 1,529 ICE fires per 100,000 sales respectively.
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  427. Two guys caffeinated up to their eyebrows wondering what a mild legal amphetamine could be. lol
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  428. Performance is similar -- only if you are willing to pay 30k more for a car with similar stats. Don't know what planet you are living on, but it obviously doesn't get much news. Next year Tesla will be casting the entire underbody of their cars in one piece and the battery tray will be a structual component of the chassis. Also they will be selling a pickup with an exoskeleton instead of a chassis. Advances that the other companies never even dreamed of.
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  429.  @philpatterson7085  Stupid comment of the day award. Stalin was a priest before he became a tyrant. Atheism is not a religion -- fool. Atheists are less violent than any religious group with the possible exception of the Janes, have the lowest percentage of prision population and are more highly educated than any religious group, yet fools like you equate them to the heinous acts of one or two men. You prejudicial spin is a example of supidity on the hoof. Their is neither time nor space to list the leaders who were religious who killed and murdered their way through life, but they are vast compared to the few who claimed to be atheists.
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  430.  @lika9043  lol, It's so cute when a russian who is working for the state or else they would not have free access to the internet, tells someone from a free society that they are brainwashed. I mean it is actually hilarious.
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  431. If you only count real recalls, Tesla has the least with 12.
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  432.  @humboldthammer  I got news for you, Men believed in god, and gods, many thousands of years before Abraham was a glint in his father's eye, if he is more than a mythic figure on which their is much debate, and before the tribes of Israel existed at all. Though I do support your statement about the progressive improvement of Mankind, which is happening, and a major part of it is to debunk nonsense and superstition for what it is -- usually well intentioned teaching stories composed of metaphors which no longer make the same kind of sense that their quite human and fallible authors first intended.
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  433. Well Chad, you do realize that the USA would support Australia with treasure and blood to the point of total ruin if it came down to it.
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  434. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again you woke puddin' heads. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  435. If I were in business and someone refused an order they had made when there was incredible demand for the item, I would either put them at the back of the line or cancel them entirely. To think that fairness demands otherwise is to be entirely delusional about one's own significance, and to not consider what thousands of people doing the same thing would mean to a business. You can always cancel and buy an EV that is five years behind in tech.
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  436. Some generalized guesses and stories made up by impressions gleaned from dubious sources to say the least. No mention of the working tyranny in Brazil, or the destruction of the rain forests . Representation of the IMF as something other than the force for evil that they are. Complete misunderstanding of the state of the USA as opposed to the fantasy land presented by corporate controlled news sources, and no recognition of the coming landslide victory for Sanders. Actually a pretty elementary summation rife with silly and stupid generalizations. Had some respect for your reports (read stories) until now.
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  437. Don't remember where I heard this, but I think the cybertruck may have a motor in each wheel. If this is the case I doubt if it will have 4 plaid motors. Even the plaid does not have 3 plaid motors. It only has the plaid motors in the rear.
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  438. Donald Lame Duck
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  439. It is obvious to almost everyone that it is you who has been left behind -- in the iron age. Did you know that the gospels were not written by Christ's disciples but by Greeks: more than half a century after the events reported?
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  440. "chic" does not mean what you think it does: chic /shēk/ adjective Conforming to the current fashion; stylish. "chic clothes; a chic boutique." Adopting or setting current fashions and styles; sophisticated: synonym: fashionable. "chic, well-dressed young executives." Similar: fashionable Original and in good taste or form; stylish; in current fashion, fashionable. Similar: stylish. You mean "chick" which is short for chicken, not chic which is pronounced sheik.
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  441. Most of the health care dollar goes to the business side of healthcare and middle men. Though it is true that when I was a teen, the average income for an MD was 25k, now they all expect to be millionaires. France did it right and increased the number of docs by allowing more into med schools. We did it wrong by keeping the docs in short supply and importing them form third world countries.
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  442. Huge numbers of people will not want self-driving cars and others will not be willing to pay for it, and all old cars will not be a part of the network. Cars networked together to control traffic will not work, but cars networked to the traffic control signals will. And it will be much safer, will not rely on FSD, and will be a vastly less expensive upgrade to incorporate any old vehicles into such a traffic control network with cheap transponders, or cellular phones. And in areas that do not have it, traffic will still work as it does now.
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  443. That's why the most advanced Chinese EVs are those that copied Tesla's manufacturing tech. Get a brain.
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  444. Totally incorrect.
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  445. It's how far the armor from a Russian tank will fly when it is blown apart by a javelin missile.
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  446. How can Putin seriously believe he can outlive all the people that now will not rest until he is dead?
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  447. So now you have proven to everyone that you know nothing about what is happening and what is going to happen.
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  448. You got it. Same as in the sixties when every second SDS and Weather Underground member was an FBI agent looking to advance their career by inciting an incident and then arresting the people he incited. Same old dirty tricks over and over. In politics and law enforcement.
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  449. People do not understand the magnitude of the difference between what they themselves have, and what the top one percent has. They do not even understand that if they were to count one number each second: in about twelve days they could count to a million. But it would take about thirty one years to count to one billion. These people who are billionares have a level of wealth and power undreamed of by the pharaohs of Egypt or any other big pig of history. They literally have the power of the imaginary gods and superheros of the ages. You do not know them. You will never meet one of them. You have no chance of being associated with any of them unless they can use you in some manner. If you think they are at all like you and have any of the humble human concerns as you do, or that you can possibly someday be one of them, you are a fool. If you think their psyches have not been poisoned by all the sycophants and yes-men that surround them seeking a crumb from their tables -- think again. We are ruled by the worst of us, by a bunch of psychopaths and superficial assholes.
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  450.  @lapinchechismosa  In other words you are in favor of violently forcing free people to become part of a totalitarian authoritarian regime that has total surveillance of every act of their population, even when these free people will oppose it to the death. Very heroic of you.
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  451.  @jackchiu7560  I said the people of Taiwan should be able to determine their own fate and government. Despite your irrelevant rant, that is still what I believe.
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  452. Hybrid vehicles will be around but not because they are an advancement. They are more complicated and subject to mechanical problems than either ICE or EV. They take the Rube Goldberg whirligig that is the ICE engine and make it even more complicated and subject to problems, while the obvious direction is the simplicity of EV with three moving parts per engine as opposed to ICE 1500 moving parts or hybrid 1500 plus, and hybrid owners almost always only use the gas engine. The most meaningful major advancement in the developing world would be in the cities and the best thing in the cities would be for the millions of scooter drivers to switch to EV scooters with batter swap tech.
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  453. Actually: that is: in reality, you would fall asleep faster and deeper if you removed your socks at bedtime. The human body needs to decrease it's temperature in order to fall asleep. This all was covered in excruciating scientific detail in Huberman's videos on sleep.
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  454. The power elite, no matter where they arise or infest the populace, have only one motivation: to maintain and increase their power. It doesn't matter if they are a democrat or a communist they are all the same under the skin. In general there is something fundamentally askew with anyone who desires to have political power over others. And remember this, political power, ultimately means the control of the monopoly on violence.
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  455. Would love to hear a BLITZ on the area between the Black and Caspian seas, from ancient to modern times.
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  456.  @WJdad  Good to hear. I am so sick of tribal groups declaring some mountain "sacred" or some such nonsense. Either everything is "sacred" or nothing is. The enlightened man sees the Buddha in a piece of dung -- or so I have heard. Time for beliefs based on nonsense and sentimental emotional blinders to disappear from the face of earth. They have enslaved the minds of the dullards who in tern shackle the actions that are necessary to aspire to our golden destiny among the stars.
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  457. Like abused children who go on to abuse their own children: abused peoples fall into the same syndrome. There is a little girl from New England who is now a spot on rubble left by the Israeli bulldozer that after seeing her, ran her over to continue destroying stolen Palestinian houses. Sounds very Nazi-like to me.
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  458.  @cowymtber  Really. . . What is the best selling EV in China? It ain't BYD or Neo. If you want to lose your money invest in Neo. BYD cooks it's books and actually makes nothing on EVs. They also count their hybrids as EVs. Tesla model Y is by far the best selling EV in China, despite the competition because it is the best car by far.
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  459.  @jolness1  The rest of the market is only catching up to where Tesla used to be. Tesla is pulling further ahead each day, according to engineering experts.
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  460.  acephalicatv  "Real democracy" is something usually only found in a direct democracy. Representational Democracy, Republics, Constitutional Republic, etc, are a device used to lead the capite censi to believe that they live in a participatory democracy while allowing the plutocrats to stay in control of the things that matter to them. Switzerland has a direct democracy, or if you allow, a REAL democracy, but as far as I am aware, they are the only such democracy in the world today and in all of history.
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  461.  @mfawls9624  LOL, Things often seem paradoxical if you believe the MAGA FUD, and are then given a peek at reality. Cali is mecca for the homeless and street people, they come from all over the country. But Cali is rich rich rich, and huge huge huge, far bigger and richer than a few minute places where the news media likes to focus.
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  462. Until now, Apple, like Telsa, wrote software for specific systems, the architecture and sometimes even the components of which, they designed themselves, typically this cost the consumer a thirty percent premium over the same components or performance of systems from other OEMs or that they built themselves, unlike MIcrosoft, Apple does not have experience writing software that needs to be compatible for a huge number of random systems of different components and different generations of hardware, yet that is what they will have to do to be compatible with the hundreds of different components in various EV configurations from different EV OEMs. So really Tesla software, written for the specific systems that Tesla designs and builds is more like Apple software for iphones and computers, than Apple software for cars will be. Tesla software for their own cars will have all the advantages that Apple software for their own computer and phone systems had, and Apple software for EVs will not. But Apple marketing is near diabolical in its effectiveness, so millions will bend over and love doing it. It would be nice if Tesla offered it as an option, then people could decide if it's worth it for themselves.
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  463. Once the data is out, insurance companies will be giving discounts if you use FSD most of the time. What Tesla needs is gov. protection from predatory law suits. This could be with a pool from which funds are drawn or straight legislation limiting the types of lawsuits that can be applied to FSD. Of course any of these changes will only happen when the ratio of crashes caused by human error vs Tesla FSD is understood by regulators and politicians, because the public in their ignorance would rather see a hundred people die from human error than one from machine error.
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  464. Everybody knows the solution, even the people responsible for maintaining the status quo -- actually especially them.
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  465. But really shouldn't these people be going to the UK since it is a UK territory?
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  466. Tesla outsells German EVs in Germany by a mile, and until recently they were Chinese manufactured. That should tell you everything you need to know about the relative strengths of the respective products. The most advanced cars in all the world are now made in Germany (and Texas, and China) And they are just getting started. The implementation of FSD will have an impact greater than did the invention of the steam engine.
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  467. Spoken like someone whose mind has totally been co-opted by the military-industrial ghouls.
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  468. Yep it mostly is. Our court systems, especially on the level that most people come in contact with them (traffic violations etc) is really another separate tax system.
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  469.  @donreinke5863  That makes a lot of sense if you are poor. So if you are poor it is indeed foolish. Not so much for anyone with a middle class or higher income. And at a certain income level, buying a cheap car becomes foolish if you can easily afford the car you really want.
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  470. Your seemingly random use of videos from incidents other than what you are reporting on has hit a new low now. You just showed a bunch of Trump supporters protesting the vote count while you reported on protests of tar sands.
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  471. If there was some way to bomb covid we would have done better.
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  472. Don't worry about the opioid thing, Jared is taking care of it. That's that fat guy who lost his job at Subway right?
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  473. Same thing that ruins the Aptera. Performance enthusiasts have been reducing unsprung weight for a reason. There is reason that people pay huge amounts to have carbon fiber wheels and lite unsprung components. You would think that Monroe would mention this factor in Aptera and this bike. Can you imagine dragging an unsprung motor in a dirt bike were the handling is paramount?
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  474.  @gridjac  I guess you know that before Elon dropped out of school he was doing advanced studies in super-capacitors. I would love to see super capacitors integrated into the electronics of EVs, but I have a feeling that if Tesla isn't working on it, it probably doesn't really make sense.
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  475. The lowest price Model 3 when they first came out in 2017 was 35k and the lowest price 3 that you can order today on Tesla web site is $40,390. In inflation adjusted dollars the present price is 5.16% less expensive than it was five years ago.
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  476. Bloomberg's business is not informing you, Bloomberg's business is selling advertising slots. Tesla does not advertise, Bloomberg takes every opportunity to deliver FUD on Tesla because they refuse to pay the ad vig.
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  477. If ever there was a set-up for a third party success, it's what we have now. Unfortunately Kennedy is not really good enough -- too weird. Maybe Jon Stewart or Bill Maher would be pretty good. I think Zelinski was a good thing for Ukraine despite the situation, and he was a commedian, and Stewart could be a good thing for the USA.
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  478. More precisely: VW loves the CCP. Birds of a feather cheat together. Especially when they are outperformed in every metric by a company with a real desire to benefit humanity as a whole.
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  479. Don't worry the planet and life will go on, though civilization on a broad scale may not.
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  480. In your mind it may be, but in reality it is not even close to the worse kind of human suffering.
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  481. Just goes to show that you should always buy your drugs in NYC instead of Philly. . . . Right? Or maybe that the FDA should never have changed the drug policy and caused hundreds of thousand of people to seek meds on the street because they could no longer get good pain med by prescription. Every one of these drug problems would be solved by a decriminalization of all drugs, giving junkies free pure drugs along with a place to use them safely and egress to treatment if they want it. Wait a minute, instead of something that works, let's just keep doing the same shit that hasn't worked for the last fifty years.
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  482. I tried to find out if Democracy Now uses green energy and was unable to come up with any answer. I bet that most of the people who are simpatico with the motives of Democracy Now have not even taken the most simple step of changing their electricity supplier over from coal burning producers to Green producers. It is a painless and totally free thing to do, in fact when I switched to green electricity my bill went down considerably. If you haven't done this primary action, you should basically shut up about the entire issue. I know it's just too much to ask most people to give up their rapacious use of animals as food, which would greatly help quell climate change, but switching to green energy is really asking them to give up nothing. Just do it -- today.
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  483. Why don't the proper authorities hunt down and kill the people smugglers on the borders? Could it be the money involved? Do something useful for once instead of cleaning your weapons.
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  484. That's how you read the market: by your brother-in-laws anecdotal experience (or outright fantasy) -- not too bright r' ya'.
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  485. Just don't let any bankers into the autonomous zone or it will go the way of the first American Revolution and be stolen by sniveling neurotics out to please their mommies by gathering gold.
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  486. Where is the fact checking? More corporate biased lies by omission. Biden lied and lied and lied again in this debate and anyone with an internet connection can prove it for themselves. He has been in favor of freezing and getting rid of social security and medicare for forty years and it is there for all to see -- EXCEPT in the fantasy world spun by corporate owned news. Your news is not "the fourth estate" but it is a fifth column for the kleptocrats that sign these millionaire fake reporters paychecks.
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  487. Sir how is it exactly that one megawatt is not equal to another megawatt? I think you may want to check your facts and revise you statement. Especially the one about a megabyte of coal which makes no sense at all.
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  488.  @tsubadaikhan6332 Which "they" are you referring in your second to last sentence? I wish the macro situation would trickle down to our local Home Depot parking lot. Maybe then you could get some decent semi-skilled and casual labor for less then $35/hr. Unfortunately such is not the case where I live, and there is no shortage of Help Wanted signs outside of local industry, advertising starting wages for compete nubes in the low to mid twenties per hour. In short, if the robots don't show up, grandma's roof is probably gonna leak unless she is wealthy.
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  489. I remember when my 69 Z28 was rated at 290hp by Chevy for insurance purposes. At 6500 it had well over 400hp.
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  490. @Charles Bronson Sure practically all cultures in history had slaves in one form or another. Whether they were called serfs, or slaves, or tennent farmers, or as was the case with many of the Europeans that immigrated in the 1700's indentured workers. Actually the word slave does come from the word Slav, because many of the eastern Europeans were captured and enslaved during the middle ages, but the word Slavic did not originally mean slave it meant "the people" as many tribes describe themselves as the real people or the chosen people etc. Of course slavery itself outdated this by many thousands of years. Almost everyone, despite believing that they descended from royalty, have slaves in their family tree. I personally am still waiting for compensation from the French for the bastard Pippin the Fat having invited all the Alamani nobles to a feast and slaughtering them then parceling out their kingdoms to his bros and his son Charlemagne. I heard the check is in the mail. And if I don't hear from them soon I will have to try to get my reperation check from the Catholic church as the true heirs of the Roman Empire which also enslaved some of my ancestors. If we trace it back far enough, no doubt Adam will owe us all trillions, or Lucy as the case may be. :)
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  491. @Dance4JC Quite understanable, my own predilection would be to find the companies, corporations, and families whose present wealth was founded in the slave trade or use of slave labor and basically take everything they have, both as compensation and a symbol that such behavoir will not be tolerated retroactively. Apparently there are quite a few present ongoing concerns that fit this profile. Maybe set up a trust or just disperse it, but it would probably be more useful in the long run to set up something that would go on benefiting proven descendants of American slaves. I know nobody I know or am related to benefited one bit from slavery, in fact it probably hurt them because it devalued their own labor. I have these old photographs of the boys and men who worked the family farm. Every once in a while there would be a black person or two dressed in overalls like everyone else, standing with the rest of them in front of the barn. This baffled me for a while because to this day there are no persons of African descent anywhere near that valley, just a bunch Mennonites. Then I found out they were active in the underground railroad, and it all made sense.
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  492.  @cavalier5727  You don't like what we actually know about the Euopean invasion of the Americas, so there can be no truth in it -- so childish. The Truth is easy to see. No stone age group has survived intact when it came in contact with a technologically superior culture, with the exception of Sentinal island off the coast of India that has been declared off-limits by the gov of India. You would not want to live there. Nobody has resisted the truth being brought into light as you say, more than the people who believe a revisionist romantic fantasy of Native American culture and know nothing of the near constant war between various groups, the lack of any meaningful progress in most any area, the brutal torture (usually to death, which is why Native Americans did not surrender in battle) as the rule not the exception for captives and enemies, the delight by women and children in taking part in the torture of captives, the helplessness in the face of pathogens, the self hobbling superstitions taken as fact, which lead to things like the ritual sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people on an industrial scale, cannabalism, and murderous raiding of civilians as a business model. Or even the fact that most of the Africans taken into captivity were taken by other subsaharan Africans or Muslim slavers. Their real history like that of all peoples includes the brutal and the humane. Instead of the truth the woke puddin'-heads believe in a golden age of noble savage environmentalists that never existed except in their heads and Hollywood. The real history of the European conquest of the Americas is the history of several vastly imperfect and violent cultures in conflict. Just like it happened everywhere else in the world when a technologically or organizationally superior culture came in contact with a primitive one.
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  493.  @Redactedlllllllllllll  If you know how to read then you would know that I didn't make excuses for anybody. I merely pointed out that the narrative of this documentary does exactly what it claimed it would not do, it presented partial facts and only those facts that he found fit his viewpoint.
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  494.  @littlegravitas9898  Really: instead of meaningless and vague ad hominem statements which only reflect on youself, why not point out the mistakes I have made in my criticism of this blatantly biased documentary.
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  495. Not really. Politically campaign finance reform is without a doubt the most important issue. The fact that it does not strike an emotional cord in most is just a matter of a distorted view of what is going on in the gov. All campaign contributions must end, this is the only thing that will address the legalized corruption that the career politicians have established as normal. As long as the government is controlled through contributions to campaign funds there is nothing and can be nothing but corruption by a power elite that buys politicians. It's so simple.
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  496. Imagine
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  497. Call me old fashion, butI love a pundit that "breaks it down" instead of "unpacking" raw data.
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  498. If the rest of this video is anything to go by, you didn't miss anything but a totally biased and inaccurate presentation. Canada has enough of that already.
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  499. It doesn't matter how many times you say the USA is an empire -- it isn't and never was. It just means you don't know what an empire is or have a skewed view of history.
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  500. @G M I suggest that you short Tesla with your entire net worth and see how that turns out for you.
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  501.  @garybest In India at Jamnagar (the world's largest oil refinery) the Russian crude is blended with other foreign crude and refined into gasoline, diesel, and other products that can be legally bought by American companies.
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  502. I thought this was Dersohwitz's idea of a comedy routine. The statement is so obviously false and so insanely stupid that he cannot be serious sans brain cancer or a stroke.
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  503. "Those who have most power in the world (white people)." Talk about incredibly stupid generalizations. Go ask the powerful white people living in the coal regions of PA and elsewhere how it's going for them. How can anybody take this man seriously after making such an inaccurate initial statement? It's not white people who have the most power it is the power elites of all races and countries. In China for instance an Asian person has been elected prime minister for life, in Saudi Arabia thousands of Semites are born into unimaginable riches, etc, etc. Get real, its a class struggle not a race struggle that is the real source of the racial manipulation that is rife. Including your own. And do yourself a favor an get a new haircut.
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  504. Then I suggest that you short Tesla stock. If you are correct you will be rich. Just don't think about more money being lost shorting Tesla than any other stock in the entire history of the market. You, unlike everyone else that bet against Tesla have a chance of being correct. Put your money where your mouth is.
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  505. 15:13 . . . "The general indifference by the American political and intellectual elites, to the relationship of the-war-on-terror, and the erosion of democracy, is also a very deep thread and very historically rooted (not just in the-war-on-terror, but before) and certainly, seeing that those connections HAVE to be made, in order to have any form of real democracy in this country, and safety and dignity for so many people.
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  506. Why not just sell votes for a dollar each. You pay five dollars you get five votes. I mean isn't that what we really have now?
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  507.  @incognitotorpedo42  Funny how Tesla can produce the best EVs in the world in the USA, with the most American content and labor, and make the most profit of any OEM, and Ford can barely do a decent one in Mexico and make a profit. Something not right there.
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  508. I own about 15x tesla over BYD, but would be willing to change that ratio if BYD dips to 55.55 USD in the next week.
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  509. You made my Sunday morning a bit more fun. I hear that Tesla reneged on it's no flip for a year policy? Any news on that? It sure would cut down on the number of people that bow out on their reservation if they could just flip them.
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  510. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases, Fact: the biiggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one action you are capable of that will help, because you have a flesh addiction that you cannot overcome: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death.
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  511. Psychedelic experiences and actual liberation are not even close to the same thing. If you ever actually have an experience of awakening, you should not talk about it or try to associated it with any system or philosophy or even think about it unless you want to destroy its reality in your life, and be diverted away from the next more permanent ignition, by the same old prison of conceptualization.
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  512.  @definitiveentertainment1658  You do understand that I am saying that there is nothing wrong with advocacy for the traditional family? Although the term traditional is also misleading because what is now considered traditional is the "nuclear family" (Mom, Dad, and two kids). Which has only really been around since the fifties. The real traditional family is linear and consists of many more offspring. Basically as many children as the mother could bear to bear. Usually six or more children.
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  513. This is all about China wanting TSMC as part of a national strategy to control the wold through controlling chip technology. No other company is capable of producing the chips necessary for the most advanced tech. TSMC is in Tiawan. Can you imagine the control China would have over the entire wold if they controlled this technology? Their own attempt to produce advanced chips have been a disaster. In fact until the west started investing in China, their entire economy was one step from famine. I think it is DN that has historical amnesia. China has its present strength because the west transferred much of it's industry to China. The present situation in China is proving that economic decisions made in an authoritarian state are usually a framework for failure, uninhabited cities, highways and bridges that go no where, a silk road scheme that was used to create inroads in other nations that is backfiring on them. This is just a way for the CCP to distract their own people, and it will work because the Chinese people are extremely nationalistic on a level that is never seen in the west, because they are all the same genetically and if you aren't Hann you are openly discriminated against. And they are brainwashed in school to a level never seen outside of Islamic fundamentalism. Why do you think that CCP censorship is so total? The leadership cannot tolerate any truth or descent at all. A house of cards.
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  514. Didn't we already cover this regarding depleted uranium sabot rounds?
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  515.  @darrenw2890  Come on, you know why. Because Ukranie gave up their nukes when the USSR collapsed. Or alternately if you prefer, because Russia holds the nuclear blackmail card in its hand.
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  516. I predict that this video will age badly.
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  517. Nvidia
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  518.  @TheArrowedKnee  They are not essentially ballistic missiles, they ARE ballistic missiles.
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  519.  @lanzer22  So that's the stupid comment you made when I told mnomadvfx that his idea that the CT was the worst aero was not based on the science. What are you drunk or what. Pay attention dude.
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  520. biggest mic I've ever seen.
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  521.  @johanmetreus1268 OK make it at least four genocides by Russia but, I suppose the final score isn't in yet.
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  522.  @danpham333  That's a false equivalency. There is no other company like Tesla. How many times do they have to turn down unionization to get the scumbags to let it go? Only 2 of the employees in Sweden want a union. That's not what this is about. It's about a union that acts like the mafia to get it's way.
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  523.  @danpham333  GM will not be around in ten years without another government bailout, which they won't pay back. You want personal anecdotes? I used to know men in the Allentown PA area that were in the union at Bethlehem Steel (remember them) They were proud of the fact that they went to work each day and did absolutely nothing, because their jobs had been eliminated due to advances in tech, yet because of their union contract they could not be fired or moved to a useful position. There are dozens of small and midsized business in my area that were forced out of business by unionization.
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  524.  @sk0pe  Yeah that's the BS narrative. It's not an either or situation as you falsely attempt to present. First of all Elon Musk does not own Tesla. He barely owns 14% of it Elroy. You guys are like the hairballs attempting to prevent a future that is inevitable. Employee ownership is what works. Unions have put so many companies out of business it's absurd. Run at times by actual gangsters, and questionable persons most of the time. You Elon haters are a sad lot, nobody has done more to allocate significant assets for the ultimate benefit of humanity. And you just can't stand it because he has Assburgers and is not great at modeling other people's emotional reactions to his meaningless BS. Tesla is far more than Musk, and will be the most valuable industry on earth in the near future. And the workers at Tesla and Space X do not want a union. What can't you understand about that? Tesla stock is going to the moon in the next five years and every worker will profit -- einstein.
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  525.  @SkylerKing  But in WW2 Russia was richly supported by shipments of arms and materials from the USA. A major point of Russian amnesia. Without this support they would have lost.
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  526.  @Richard-dm4it  My understanding is that eighty percent of mined gold is used for jewlery. So it's not like it is without value. Bitcoin is the real bullshit, it is only backed by what the next guy or gal will pay for it, and nothing else. Silver is better because it has many industrial uses and probably will until we start using nanotubes to conduct electricity. An EV uses about 50g of silver per vehicle. But, and I hate to say it in the light of todays headlines, If you would have bought bulk ammo for an AR15 last summer you would have tripled your money at the very least and the gun dealers are about to ride another windfall powerd by the fear of future anti-gun legislation.
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  527. GM may very well not be around in ten years. Hard to believer but their are major indicators. But many will feel loyal to a company that had to be forced to implement the most basic safety features on their cars and typically would rather go to court for deaths than spend a few dollars more per unit. This is almost the opposite of Tesla's modus operendi, and thus Tesla are the safest cars sold in America, with the most American parts and labor, and the highest customer loyalty. Also the best selling car in the world including ICE.
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  528. First Dr. R video that I could not finish for the want of integrity on the part of the advocate.
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  529. I am curious about your final verdict regarding putting a supercharger in your Miata? Would you do it again? What would you do different? I think the best mod is sticky summer tires but am really considering a SC for my 97'.
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  530.  @elinope4745  You can easily start -- unskilled, and make mid twenties in east central PA, if you are willing to live in the hard coal region, you can buy a near mansion for the price of a mobile home. If you have to live in the farm country or outside the region, it's still only about triple that. I do not live there but if you are an off road enthusiast the coal region is like a 24 hour enduro. And you can drive your ATV unlicensed on the streets in places like Shamokin PA.
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  531. What we need is a Techno Meritocracy where all candidates are extensively vetted and tested and only those who test the best out of all applicants win the office until someone tests better than them at the the next government upgrade. We have the tech to provide simulations and tests so sophisticated that someone like Trump would never win a seat even as dog catcher. Actually in such a neo-confusian techno-meritocracy, probably none of the present political leaders with very few exceptions would maintain their positions. The problem with such a system is that it would work, and Wall Street can't allow that.
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  532. Finally someone here gets it right.
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  533. Unless the AI has been developed in a way that simulates such desires.
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  534.  @dieterdietert7232  Only their were not zero casualties. Take Galwan Valley: while soldiers carried firearms, due to decades of tradition designed to reduce the possibility of an escalation, agreements disallowed usage of firearms, but the Chinese side was reported to possess iron rods, clubs and batons wrapped in barbed wire and clubs embedded with nails. Hand-to-hand combat broke out, and the Indian soldiers called for reinforcements from a post about 3.2 kilometres (2 mi) away. Eventually, up to 600 men were engaged in combat using stones, batons, iron rods, and other makeshift weapons. The fighting, which took place in near-total darkness, lasted for up to six hours. Resulting in about twenty deaths on each side and many injuries and later deaths from injuries. I would think it would have been near the same if they held back and shot at each other with small arms across the valley. Later they reinstated the use of firearms.
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  535.  @danieldoyle7337  Nice theory, nice narrative, but in the USA the number one news channel, and the number one network overall is Fox News. So all the freedom of choice and information results in the majority of the population choosing the absolute worst source of news that is generally available. A network that lies not just in particular facts, but in the general narrative they present and the matrix of deception that the occasional fact is embedded in. It's not a matter of, "Their system sucks and ours is great." Both systems suck, and the average American's view of what is going on is at least as distorted as the average Chinese view, probably more, because instead of one great edifice of lies, we have a multitude of lying venues, calling each other lairs when in fact, people in America are not interested in the facts if the fact don't support what they like.
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  536. Now would be a good time to get over petty political bull. People are getting fed up with the expressions of stupid partisan posturing no matter of what flavor of stupid, liberal or conservative.
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  537. To myself and quite a few others: luxury is a carbon fiber wrapped 20,000 rpm motor.
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  538. I think that all Trump cultists and sycophants should refuse to vote in every election and they should all get together at as many Christmas parties as they can.
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  539. Sure is a good thing that gas is a safe fuel. Not like batteries which burn down bridges every day. /s Cars most likely to catch fire in descending order: 1 hybrids -- 2 gasoline engine cars -- 3 (way behind the others) EVs. Except in the media spin that gets the views.
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  540. To me what is disgustingly DISRESPECTFUL it that whenever someone even mentions the real history of the Native Americans it is immediately deleted by some shit for brains knee-jerk censor who is in complete denial about what happened. There is no reason any longer to respect Democracy Now as an unbiased source of news, it's as bad as FOX but in a different direction.
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  541. The idea that there are two parties in opposition is a ruse used to keep the peons like us divided and powerless. Democrats are a major part of the problem, and would have to morph drastically to be part of the solution. It's all slight of hand. The same people own both parties, and we hardly ever hear anything about them, because they want it that way.
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  542. Sure: just like has never happened before.
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  543. The rich do not need to cheat on their taxes to not have to pay any. Rich people mainly do not owe taxes because they do not sell their assets and investments, but hold them, they then take out low interest loans to support their lavish lifestyles. No taxes are due on investments until they are sold. Why sell stocks when they are going up 17% per year and they can get sweetheart low interest loans for 4% or less?
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  544. The common error is to compare what Waymo is doing with what TEsla is doing re FSD. There is no comparison, Tesla FSD can and will be perfected to be able to drive anywhere, even dirt roads, even off road. Waymo can only drive in geofenced areas on surface streets that need continual remapping all the time because of changes in traffic logistics and physical changes to the infrastructure, and construction.
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  545.  @ronaldharding3927  Ah money: the number one cause of the hypocrisy that makes the world go round. And at a distant 2nd we have sex, which interestingly enough is the number one cause of the number two cause of the hypocrisy that make the world go round. Actually tied with power which is itself the number two cause of the number two cause (sex) of the hypocrisy that makes the world go round. So you see my friend if only the petite strawberry blond in 8th grade had been free of cultural expectations and given it it up to Bill Gates/General Betrayus/GWBush/Atilla/ConnerMcGreger/Putin/Caesar we wouldn't be in this insane charade.
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  546.  @positiveornegative2807  Scary thing is that people think that they have oprions or that the one percent will ever give them anything but the choice of the lesser of two evils.
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  547. Congratulations -- you've won the stupid comment of the day award!
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  548. @O I Slavery was in the Americas long before there was a USA. The Native Americans had slaves that they treated brutally, three times as many slaves were taken to Cuba as the USA, and five times as many to Brazil. The Islamic Caphilate took as many white European slaves as they did Africans, and exported as many to their own territories as were sent to the Americas. I could go on but it will not prevent you from making dubious connections. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that there is a nation outside of the people that constitute it's population. The Americans of today are not the Americans of centuries ago. So all you are really saying is "other people suck". Maybe, maybe not, depends on the individuals, but certainly the verbal contortions you present here as reasoning do. Oh, but I noticed that your comment got 4 thumbs up and one from yourself, so you must be right, because on DN the truest comments always get the most thumbs up. Oh wait I got it backward. On DN the most knee-jerk anti-American puddin' headed comments always get the most thumbs up.
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  549. No I think it is mostly because they use metrics that are ill-suited to measuring the value potential that Tesla really represents, and the magnificent domination it has in reality over the companies they are continually comparing it to, all of whom have yet to make a profit on an EV and are collectively perpetually a day late and a dollar short on the tech.
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  550. DN proves that it is still capable of excellent coverage with stories like this. When all the facts fall into line with their narrative and no spin is necessary, they can be so good. What is somewhat amusing is the number of luminaries of one strip or another who claim to have known the outcome of the military action in Afghanistan ten years ago. I would be willing to bet that half the people reading this comment could truthfully say they knew the inevitable outcome twenty years ago.
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  551. Yep, once again the kleptocrats have given Americans the choice between living up to their necks in shit with Trump or living up to their necks in piss with Biden.
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  552. I don't think that Tesla or anyone else has to prove anything to you. Just don't buy it.
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  553. I, like several others here, believe you are incorrect about the winding. To have one directional winding under tension would give much more strength to the rotational force, with is the only force at work here.
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  554. The guy told you he didn't know right up front, but you insisted on him guessing.
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  555.  @tmnt10000  Antifa could burn a hundred building and it would never equal the cold blooded murder carried out by right wing-nuts. Plus you are naive if you think that all kinds of agent provocateurs and right wing extremests were not instigating such events to start a race war. Boogaloo boys ever got caught murdering and trying to get BLM blamed for it. Starting with the bombing of the fed building in Oklahoma city. Nothing the left has done in the USA even comes close and never will. Children blown up in their nursery. Right wing nuts walking into church and murdering people at prayer. Or murdering Jews at temple, or just killing eighty people because they love bump stocks and are fucken nuts because they believe the cascade of lies coming out of right with conspiracy land fantasy factories -- people like you. Dupes.
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  556. Not only that, but most black families have been in America far longer than most white families.
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  557. I don't suppose you are aware that almost all of the burning down you mention was caused not by protestors but by right-wing nuts tryiing to instigate a race war. Who burned down the police station -- right wing agent provocatures, who killed the federal cop and tried to blame it on protestors and BLM -- Booga loo boys. Who blew up the fed building in OKlaoma city -- right-wing nuts inspired by a work of fiction. Who ran their cars into crowds of people -- several right wing nuts. Who killed people at prayer in their church and outside their siynogoge? -- right wing nuts. Who is responsible for the vast majority of violent terrorist attacks in the USA -- idiots like you.
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  558. I did vote Green, in fact I have voted third party for at least thirty years. It would be much much better if Bernie ran either as a democrat or even a republican. The result of a really popular third party for progressives would play into the hands of a Trump second term. Booting the bastards out of the democratic party is a much much better path.
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  559.  @Stevehtegreatgr  And emergent properties mix with ignited epigenetic functions to form complex interactions both with external environments and the internal modeling of external environments, and the manipulation of abstract symbols many of which even stimulate hormonal responses which in tern condition the timbre and dimension of conscious neural activity in a magnetic fractal like avalanche of cascading trip points among jiggling Brownian motivated ions which among other things generate dynamic torroidal fields of associated charged patterns. And so on like that -- simple.
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  560. The present increase in opioid overdoses is a direct result of the governments change in policy for the prescription of pain management medication. I predicted this two years ago. Unable to obtain pain medication from their doctors, or unable to jump through the ridiculous hoops to get ongoing meds they turned to heroin and company. This was obvious, they were warned about it. They actually want people to move to heroin because it means more money for the banks who wash the funds of the criminal billionares that our drug laws created in the first place. And now apparently we have a retrograde homunculus in primi Sessions and I assure you things will only get worse under him. Much worse.
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  561. Pot should be treated legally like coffee. Or coffee like pot, and no more bull about it. All you see now is businessmen that had nothing to do with marijuana and politicians who persecuted users now finding every angle they can to make money off of it.
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  562. Personally I have nothing against the psychedelic family of recreational molecules. However for Graham to believe that having an "experience" that is brought about by the ingestion of one or another plant alkaloid, or other external substance, is having a "direct experience" is laughable. It's obvious from all his hedging about the relative value of drug induced, versus actual experience, that he is deeply confused.  Probably because he has never had an actual experience of awakening.   That is the only way that someone could equate a psychedelic experience with higher consciousness brought on through the ignition of natural but latent neural/hormonal systems.   That is the only way that real growth is brought about.  If your higher states of consciousness are not accessible to you without a drug, or even the need for another person, then the truth is that you know nothing real or useful about the higher experiences that you are pursuing.  So you have to look in all the places that you have been conditioned to look: like ancient civilizations, religions, and drugs and what not.  In other words all the wrong places. Your experiences with DMT though shattering and extremely charged are subjective and meaningless.  The comparison of the natural ignition of these higher human potentials and an experience that is the result of the ingestion of a recreational molecule is tenuous at best.  The reality of an actual physical, metabolic awakening, has about the same relationship to drug use as it does to religion or some other spiritual practice.  Not quite none, it is true, but the vast majority of comparisons between the two are of no real value and only serve to muddy the situation still further. Though it is an actual physical substance that is needed to activate an expanded awareness, or if you prefer the imagrery, that is the key to the kingdom: you can only grow that plant in the interface between the repurposing of ancient genetic potenials and the desire to look directly at things, and the love of euphoria, bliss, consciousness, and intelligence.  That is why it is necessary to grow in a balanced manner that incorporates both mental, and physical, as well as the so-called emotions and higher emotions. As Joe mentioned, yoga wouldn't hurt, it would be far more efficacious to find someone who actually can, activate these higher systems within themselves, and interact with them.  That may be kind of hard to do.  For instance though I have met dozens of highly respected and sometimes worshiped yoga masters and instructors I have never met one that was awake, or that even knew what direction real awakening lies in.  Good luck with that.  I can only tell you that waking up naturally is a lot more fun than the advocates of psychedelics like Terence McKenna would have you believe. While most everything that presents itself as a means to awaken is worse than bullshit, it is actually a waste of time: the inner means of doing so are as fresh as the day they were layed down, in fact in most everyone that remain virginal right onto death.  
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  563. Why run the most popular politician in the country when you can run the most hated woman? DNC logic turns Orwell inside out. That's why the obvious is so damn obscure if you play their game. Or could our lovely bloody neolibs really be that out of touch? One way or another: you know it's true. And it really doesn't matter. Either way, if you play their game,  you lose.
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  564. You are correct. These deaths are the direct result of the new government policy that makes it near impossible for chronic pain sufferers to get continuing prescriptions for their conditions. But the reason it was done is because it is so much more profitable for the power elite to have you buy heroin from criminal orgs that need money laundering. Then they make money when they enforce their bullshit laws, they make money when they imprison someone at a cost that could send them to an ivy league school, they make money when the police upgrade to military hardware, they make loads of money when the criminal billionare class that they created with these laws what to invest and hide their money, and on and on. They thrive on your demise.
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  565. No you don't.  There never was a prescription that is written "as needed", you dumba**, that's just the instructions on how to take your meds that the drugstore prints on the bottle. If you take that bottle and try to get it refilled without a visit to your doctor, or your doctor lying about a visit and they will tell you it cannot be refilled.  You will have to either have a housecall, be active in a pain management program and visit there before it is refilled, or go to your doctor's office or an emergency room -- every time you need it refilled. That is the new Federal law, and apparently between yourself and TYT you know nothing about it. Nevertheless, you managed to make an ass of yourself, by such narcissistic pride of your ignorance. I actually thought such instant karma was reserved for the far far right, who shoot themselves in the foot almost every time they shoot off their mouths. Just like you did. Though they seldom have the perception to be able to realize it without some assistance. Then they get all touchy because another one of their mistakes is to equate ignorance with stupidity. While it is certainly not true that all conservatives are stupid. Far, far, from it. All of them are ignorant of just how untrue the facts they base their opinions on are.  For instance, some males on the subcontinent are very conservative regarding the practice of sati, and many of these same conservatives are capable of extreme mental vigor and problem solving abilities, a man can be highly competent in abstract metaphysical cognition, or higher mathematics, and still think that it is a nice tradition for a wife to throw herself, or be thrown by relatives onto the funeral pyre of her husband. Sort of like the people who can honestly lay claim to an IQ higher than a moron, and still support Donald Trump's bid. Haven't these people ever seen a conman before. Bernie = statesman Trump = conman
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  566. Would be a simple matter for some competitor to payoff Moody analyst to keep them junk rated. Remember these are basically the same people who caused the 2008 crash by rating real junk CDOs AAA. They actually belong in prison.
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  567.  Linux user  Pure FUD, been debunked years ago by real science. And by the way the batteries are more than 90% recyclable. You are way behind the times, quoting ten year old concerns that were not true even then. Here is the most important thing for you to understand, because without understanding it, you fall prey to all kinds of partisan disinformation from unions and autodealership associations, and big oil, but mostly from commercial media. Who feels Tesla is stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from them for not paying the ad vig like all the other OEMs have to. Tesla does not advertise. Therefor when one Tesla catches fire when some drunk drives it into a tree at 90mph it is in the news for weeks, on an hourly basis, while the the 350 deaths every year from the 185,000 gas cars that catch fire in the USA, gets no mention anywhere ever. Duped you are.
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  568. Empathy flows in all directions. Prejudice is a polar or you might say bipolar or dichotomous expression that is actually based in the survival instinct. This is a result of a nervous system that is largely based on the pragmatism of natural selection and is constructed upon the polar charges of ions on a cellular and hormones on a systemic level. People like to think that their opinions and attitudes are based on the rationalizations that they present in retrospect. A person who sympathizes with the downtrodden in whatever guise yet is intolerant of those they view as the dominant or the benefactors of the dominant culture, may be sympathetic, but they are not empathetic. Which is really too bad. The world needs more empathy just because empathy is omnidirectional, neutral, and aspires to objectivity. Democracy Now is a good example of prejudicial sympathy and lack of empathy. Of course they are as reactionary as Fox News, but in a so to say opposing direction. I for one am sick of both the left and the right, and quite in favor of letting the best real science determine the course of human endeavour. Unfortunately at the moment this is only possible through the efforts of people like Elon Musk who are both science based, and have enough capital to pursue the real significant problems of the human race. The first and forermost of which is to survive another extinction event by generatiing a self-sustaining colony off-earth. He is not doing this for his own benefit you know. The second most important thing is to end global warming. So far Tesla is the best bet to decellerate the rate of global warming, and has opened their patents to their competition to use free, becasue Musk is more concerned with getting ride of internal combustion engines than dominating the competition. Real actions for real threats. The golden destiny of humanity lies in the stars -- so my general comment to people is to "get over it."
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  569.  @johndair2116  production will tell. Until then there is nothing to invest in.
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  570. Because cybercab will not be geofenced.
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  571. Reality check for the foaming-at-the-mouth-right: By defunding Planned Parenthood in the poor neighborhoods, the right wing fundamentalist have just guaranteed a surplus of the very people they despise most. If Freakonomics is taken seriously, we have the legalization of abortion to thank for the drop in violent crimes that was experienced some years after it passed. Further reality check for one-issue fundamentalist voters: If the so-called conservatives actually ever made abortion illegal on a federal level they would loose a large segment of their supporters because even you guys who can't seem to catch on to the same old tricks that they have pulled over and over for the last forty years, would sooner or later realize that a vote for the party of the one percent and the power elite is a vote against your own interests, that is if you even bothered to vote after the criminalization of abortion. Of course, both parties are owned by the power elite -- So vote for Bernie and Tulsi 'cause they ain't owned, and all those other hopefuls will be co-opted before they turn the office door knob, if they ain't already.
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  572. Must be a slow news day -- aye?
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  573.  @exluvah  I am really sorry to hear that. I thought that we had at least evolved beyond the need to ignore the agony of others in order to maintain a mindless draconian puritanism that results from the indiscriminate absorption of the lies of the evil power elites. That would be all power elites. We don't need them and they are and have never been anything but a gigantic millstone around humanity's neck.
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  574.  @srwven  Cell phones are responsible for the use of rare and strategic metals far more than EVs but I bet you aren't gonna go back to a landline.
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  575. In 1969 my girlfriend and I were returning to our apt from dining out. The route we were taking went through a black section of a small city in PA. I first noticed that many of the windows on the street were smashed. It all happened very quickly. Next I notice that there were cars overturned up ahead on fire. It is a one lane one way street without room to turn around. Next I hear someone scream "whitey!" and a brick hits my windshield right in front of my girlfriend and showers her face with glass. A mob of people started to converge on my car. If it wasn't for a small alleyway that just happened to be right at the left of my car I would have had no way out. I took off down the alley and a mob of people literally collided with each other where I had been a moment before. I drove directly to the police station before I stopped because I didn't know how extensive the riots were. The car I had seen burning in the next block had held an elderly white couple that were pulled out of their car and beaten to death. My girlfriends face was covered in blood but only superficial lacerations. If not for the luck of that alley we would have been dead just because we were white, at the age of 17. So I know exactly how it feels to be targeted for no reason but your race. The next year, my freshman year a university, I went with a close black friend to a black power rally. I was the only white person there. I was so abused both by the audience and from the stage that I got up and left, despite being there to support their cause. I guess I told you that so that you could rest assured it is a pan human trait to be brutal. Given the opportunity the oppressed will step right up an oppress others. It is, as you say, a disgusting situation, but by no means isolated to one particular race.
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  576. Politics sucks ass. Isn't it apparent to everyone by now that our political system is an archaic artifact? An artifact based on humanities inability to escape it's bestial warlike nature . . . :campaigns, winner take all victories, leaders who neither lead (excepting the advancement of the concerns of their patrons) nor have the wisdom to make intelligent impartial decisions on the issues of the day. This political web of deceit is a self-perpetuating parasite that warps collective social culture and is itself continually warped due to shameful self-interested exploitation by those who control the economy through control of debt manipulation. Interests and principalities that spew false narratives which have contaminated every aspect of our expectations of daily life, and our future aspirations (or lack of them). I suggest to you that there are other alternatives. Far more efficient alternatives, that would benefit the whole of society and reduce the corruption that is not only a systemic disease of our political system, but is now the very sinew, marrow, and circulatory system, of a body politic that has done everything possible to free itself from both morality and justice through legislative and legal complexities, technicality, outright lies, and all manner of fuckery. It is time to evolve folks. Like a cool pool on a hot day, once you take the plunge it's refreshing and rejuvenating, but before you take that plunge there is hesitation and a resistance to a state change. And we must change the state of our state unless we consider moving into the future by looking through a rear-view mirror and stepping on our own dicks every step of the way while perpetually bitiching about it to be some kind of desirable human prerogative. Because as it is, it will never be able to meet our real human needs or provide anything more than updated reruns of the same old conundrums. If human culture and civilization is to advance it must evolve to a higher state, a higher system of state, which will nurture higher states of mind in the populace, not continually drag it back by aggravating the primal survival instinct in a technological environment wherein this instinct is counterproductive on numerous levels. I suggest to you that a body politic based on a NeoConfusian Techno-Meritocracy would not only be vastly superior for the state of the state, state of the economy, state of human advancement, and our collective state of mind, that any comparison to the present drunken-knife-fight-in-a-gilded-bordello that passes for our government would be comical.
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  577. Stop saying "overturn the election" say, "overthrow the government of the USA."
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  578. 85% of the money spend on "healthcare" goes to sales commissions and administration. So they fight like hell to keep those billions by tidal waves of disinformation.
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  579. Germany could restart their nuclear facilities if the wanted to.
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  580. I am thinking that the possibility of a terrorist setting a fire in the west will lead to all occupants of flammable regions of the USA being recorded at all times by drones. I am also thinking that this will be one of the first major systems to actually be designed and controlled by machine learning and artificial intelligence. All persons will be accurately identified and actually observed by a suite of thermal, night vision, and other optical devices continually. Perhaps sensor fuzed chemical anti-conflagration devices could be released by the drones and be at the scene within seconds of the fire starting.
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  581. @Raiderology The "opium war tradition" sounds like an erzats conceptual structure devised to rationalize a particular narrative. You can find such stories everywhere on all sides of all issues. I have found in almost sixty years of study that one of the most important things a human can learn to differentiate is the difference between things that only exist if someone is thinking about them or entertaining them in some published work, and things whose existence persists even if they are entirely outside of the scope of human attention. As simple as this seems I have no doubt that no one who reads this will appreciate the significance this little factor has in society in general and their personal life. There is almost no chance that you will personnally understand this despite understanding what the words I have written mean conceptually. A real physical fact is the wholesale death of desperate Americans due to the importation by the Mexican drug cartels of Chinese produced fentanyl. In some circles is thought to be a stratagem of the CCP. I do not believe this, but some do. What there is no doubt about is that Chinese businessmen are becoming rich by the wholesale destruction of an entire social class of Americans. I am quite aware that some American shipping companies, mostly out of NYC were involved peripherally in the Opium trade, but not nearly to the extent of the British East India Company. What is significant today is not the politics of a bygone age which the US government had no hand in, but this continual assault on the most desperate of Americans, by the collusion of criminal Mexican billionaires and conscienceless Chinese businessmen. Personally I hold the position that all drugs should be decriminalized and that addictive drugs such as heroin should be provided free of charge to addicts in a clinical setting along with the continual offer of therapy and perhaps the offer of ibogaine preparations that are known to quell addiction quite well. But know in advance that I totally expect you to cling to the side of things with no real physical existence in that that is the only manner in which to see you view as valid. So, as they say, more pouring of the null into the void.
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  582.  @hvh377  You are apparently talking about the EV market. I am talking about the entire car market: If the late-starters find themselves incapable of ramping up and producing at a profit which seems to be the case, for most, if not all of the other EV OEMs then Tesla's market share will expand as ICE sales falter. And if the late starters attempts are found to be inept as many have been and will be. And because of scale and manufacturing technique Tesla's are not only more advanced but are rapidly becoming less expensive to produce and buy, they will continue to dominate and their market share will increase in spite of the proliferation of competition, AS IT HAS IN CHINA where the competition is fierce and the market is glutted, yet in the long scope and in recent days, Tesla has managed to increase it's market share.
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  583. Plenty of Telslas have over 2k miles with about 80 percent left. The average of model S that is eighe years old is over 90 percent left.
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  584. America has many different regional peccadilloes, but Peter was raised in New Zealand. Many Americans find the pronunciation of other regions and ethnic groups in America curious and incorrect, and they often are. Take yourself for instance: where in the world do they think that the word "annunciation" is synonymous with the word "pronunciation" as you seem to believe?
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  585. Better check the progress on the teslabot before you sell, even at that price. People have no real idea what the end of labor will mean. Better take up the violin or something because free time is coming to all.
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  586. We are sick of neos both neocons and neoliberals. Just keep reducing the taxes on the power-elite and increasing the military budget and see how long those fiat dollars can float their illusory value by making the public responsible for the debt that backs them. The banksters need to pay, for crimes past, and present. Changing the legislation to make crimes legal through campaign finance contributions to a congress peopled largely by the bought and payed for lying whores of the power elite and other thieves is a kleptocracy not a republican democracy. These people think that their continual thievery is an entitlement of their fortunate circumstance, luck, and psychopathy. And they have the spun dupes of their corrupt corporate mass media brainwashed into continually acting against their own best interests. Dump Trump and make Robert Mercer responsible for the harm caused by the lies that he and the other thieves spread through their fake organizations like Citizens United. Wake the fuck up you neoliberal toids. 2 hours ago (edited)
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  587.  @katthudson9131  Ah, I have some of R. A.'s audio books that I have not yet gotten to. Icewind Dale I believe. I will check them out. My recommendation for a fantasy/sciFi book that really stunned me in it's depth and images of a corporate owned future, Is  The Unwritten Book: Xellex by Carlos Dwa. I wish I was able to read it again for the first time. I have probably read it half a dozen times. You can see the outcome of everything we are currently going through in it. Really fantastic.
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  588. Look up the definition of literally so next time you won't use it to mean it's own opposite.
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  589. You mean in the fantasy American that exists in the little minds of the deluded right-wing nuts. I highly recommend that you and the horse you rode in on abjure all science and vaccines, especially all vaccines.
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  590.  @chocomalk  The populace thirsts for justice, but the oppressors have no such thirst because they pass legislation to make their crimes legal.
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  591. If it truly was just a rogue cop here and there, then all the rest of the very fine good police would not tolerate them and would bring them to justice or at least denounce them. Obviously this is not what is happening. Instead we get seventy police resigning from a task force in support of two scoundrels who assault a seventy year old man without cause and leave him bleeding from the brain without aid or concern. Not a few bad apples, a rotten barrel that stinks to high heaven.
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  592. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  593. All meaningless if your opponent has air superiority. Not Russian air superiority -- real air superiority. Any tin on the ground will be nothing more than clay pigeons. First the radars go by loitering stealthy autonomous cruise missiles launched from Rapid Dragon canisters, B2 and B42, then go the fourth gen air frames by fifth gen, then the remaining ground air defenses, armor, and forward artillery by 16/and 15 and even A10. Then it's time for lunch.
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  594. I would be interested in your assessment of the various studies that claim a genetic mutation that prevents the Inuits from going into ketosis. My casual perusal seemed to indicate that there is some kind of mutation that took place, though it seems that now the validity of the methodology of the blood tests that were used to determine this is in some question. Also it seemed that some of the studies indicate a condition that prevents them from transitioning to ketosis merely from low/no carbs, but that they could still go into ketosis is they fasted. The whole thing seemed inconclusive, which left me wondering if some party had an interest in keeping this matter in doubt. They also indicated that the Inuits actually ate more carbs than was first believed and this kept them from ketosis. To me, if it were actually true that the Inuit, in their traditional life, had developed such a genetic mutation, this would settle this entire matter, as to the long term viability of ketosis. It would also settle the matter of low carb, carnivore, vs med, plant based -- once and for all: for those who understood the implications of natural selection selecting against long term ketosis. Perhaps though, the moment has been lost along with the traditional sequestered life style of the Inuit, and if the data we have is questionable it may be too late to ever learn the conclusion to this debate that life itself had selected. I would be most interested in any view you had on this matter.
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  595. Certainly should be prosecuted as should Obama who criminally mislead the people of Flint by pretending to drink tap water in Flint while really drinking bottled water from air force one. But @ 18:20 she says . . ."have lead in their DNA that can be passed down to their children." New one on me. Is this really a thing? I doubt it.
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  596. You guys are like the spokespersons for people finally getting it. What's behind this? . . . Class struggle. What's behind that? . . . Class struggle. What's -- Dude it's class struggle all the way down. (Apologies to the Taoist turtles.)
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  597. I suggest instead of believing without question outdated stories from an age of tyrants, and the gods made-up in their images that you adopt Spiderman comics as the source of all truth. You can use the evidence found in the comics to confirm the statements made in the comics.
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  598. Joe I'm too much of a pussy to have Dr Gregor on Rogan
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  599. Mainly it is a world driven by economics and the market, which is in a sense war by other means.
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  600. Black women seem to be the hope for America to ascend to the morality that it claims.
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  601. I like my cars entirely analogue, but I still realize that Tesla is the future of autos. I will never sell my 97 Miata or my 2003 S2000 but will still buy a cybertruck as soon as my order comes up in a year or two, or three.
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  602.  @johnfranklin6394  Not an easy place for cars here either: in the winter anyway, they spray an anti-ice formula on the roads that is diabolical. My roadsters stay inside for the winter and I use a more modern SUV that is definitely not analogue, and about a hundred times less fun to drive. I haven't had the heart to put away the Miata yet. I live in the mountains of PA and the roads here are like a billion dollar amusement ride. Very little traffic outside of town and are really well maintained. I still have sticky tires on the miata and just hate to take them off, but it is getting into the 30f in the morning. And a hard 25 or so and they are trashed permanently. Gas is about $4.70 right now. Sorry for going on, about the "urgent" concerns of a retired boomer.
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  603. I agree, but solely for the purposes of performance and handling.
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  604. You fail to realize that this interview is itself propaganda.
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  605. You are presenting a distorted narrative. I know people who work in the ICU of a major medical center. I asked all of them if they are seeing fully vaccinated people presenting with Covid. They said yes. I then asked them how many of these vaccinated persons were admitted to the ICU. "None". Do you get that Jimmy? No vaccinated people were admitted to the ICU let alone died from the virus. So the long and short of it is that you are a click baiting a$$hole.
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  606.  @Earwaxfire909  Good luck with that, but facts don't stand a chance against people's preferred "alternative facts". In general it's real simple, if they don't like it, they won't believe it. And that is a fact.
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  607. Why hold back? Request carfentanil for a really good time. You could just inhale a speck of it.
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  608. Dealing with the German OEMs is like dealing with the mafia. They have proved this over and over.
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  609. The best engineers are not working for any company that fields F1 cars, they are applying for work at SpaceX, Tesla, NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Apple, and Google in that order, based on number of employment applications of qualified engineers.
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  610.  @domtweed7323  Except the bullet you have to pay for yourself when they shoot you for smoking a joint.
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  611.  @e4arakon  That's one way of looking at it: the wrong way.
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  612. The Teslas sold in the USA have the highest American parts and labor of any cars sold in America. The model Y is the highest selling car of any type in the world.
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  613. Machines are gonna write the code, and other machines are gonna write the software to test the code, in the future the difficulties will not matter. Or they can just limit their models to a list of approved components and buy a software suite from Tesla.
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  614. I would say the primary reason is that if all else fails, Israel can serve as a base which the USA and perhaps their allies can build up a force capable of any attack or counter-attack that is deemed necessary in the region.
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  615. While the oil industry would like everyone to think that there would be a massive up tick in mining and resource use to change over to green energy, this is just lies and spin. The actual facts about the resources needed were detailed in the last Tesla investor day presentation and they are actual facts and the conclusion is that it would take less resources than to continue what humans are currently doing to generate energy. But, hydro, geothermal, and even modern nuclear should certainly be paramount. I especially like the breakthrough that uses nuclear to bore out geothermal vents, and the one that is finally commercializing the production of iron nitride magnets. That last is a huge wow.
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  616. What you do not seem to understand is that despite the grandfatherly patients, sensitivity, and aged issues, Joe spent his childhood in the hard coal region of PA. A bar on every corner (at the time) and lots of drunk, angry, miners in them, many of whom still had jobs, and lots, I mean lots of demented abused kids on the street, just waiting for an opportunity to kick ass for fun or profit. So what? "Nobody fucks with a Bidden." -- Joey B. Now I personally do not agree with much of Bidden' political shenanigans, which are largely symbolic in effect, but serve to alienate the more sane portion of the so-called conservatives (actually right-wing radicals these days). He is a very successful politician, which means many things, including that he is a liar. But the key point is that his decisions whether right (as in support for Ukraine) or wrong (In his posturing against the only successful new American auto company in a hundred years, and attributing their achievements to the unionized traditional OEMs that are struggling to evolve.) At least his decisions are based on reason, even if at times those reasons are political. He may not be able to count on the anti-Trump vote if Trump loses in the primary (not likely). But if Trump does run again, most people will hold their noses and vote for Joe again. If the Republicans manage to shut off the funding of Ukraine, and the Europeans do not take up the slack, one of the most effective means of reducing the power of rule by totalitarian methods, which are always against the evolution of civilization and humans, will have been squandered. The far reaching effects of the undermining of the significance of real facts as opposed to right-wing fancy and fantasy as the means by which the billionaire Robert Mercer (the REAL money behind Trump and the chaos brought on by denial of reality by right-wing nuts and fanatics) could decrease his tax burden. Not the first time a New York City conman (Donny) pulled the wool over the eyes of a bunch of small town rubes, and it won't be the last. But, "Fool me once, shame on you. . ." -- Now we will see if all the "small-town rubes" who loved Trump have been fooled once, or if they actually are fools.
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  617.  @stachowi  Recently China was at war with Vietnam, USA in Korea, invaded and took Tibet, and is in continual armed conflict with India.
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  618.  @a.champagne6238  Despite Trump being an absolute arse of the lowest calibre, Clinton may have done more harm to the progressive cause than any recent president, with the possible exception of W, who was just a shill for the Saudis.
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  619. Elon said the actual CT will be smaller than the prototype. So there you go. There also may be a compact version for Europe.
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  620.  @smokeemifyagotem8851  Since it was primarily Arabs who planned and flew the planes and no retaliation against Saudi Arabia ever took place I would say you have no idea what you are talking about. The USA did exactly the same thing in the second war on Iraq as the Russian are now doing in Ukraine. They made up reasons to destroy a country that had in no way attacked them.
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  621. unrelenting no -- relentless yes
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  622. The people who are simpatico with those who suffer, are not the people who will decide the next general election. You have to understand this is you want Trump out. You must stop associating the plight of the economic migrants with the anti-Trump movement. This is a losing position for any Trump opponent. A losing proposition for the myriad Trump-alternatives that the scumbag DNC has offered up only to make sure that the super-delegates get to vote in the second round of votes at the convention. When they will make sure that Trump wins again by nominating Bidden.  Very clever: typical scumbag neo-liberal bureaucratic stiff-arm dirty-tricks.  If you don't realize this -- you are just another dupe of the same scumbag ethos that screwed over Bernie last time. The people who will decide this election are not gonna vote for another Hillary in the form of Lyin' Bidden. No matter the woke-PC validity of the ethics of what you are doing, they will vote for Trump if you insist on championing the rights of economic refugees -- the fact is you are actually supporting the one percent with your stance, simply because this is not an issue that should be associated with the anti-Trump candidate that we end up with. God help us if Bidden takes the stage. The only real question should be, "Who will be Bernie's running mate?" Personally I like Liz and Tulsi -- in that order.
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  623. Trump is a billionaire only in his fantasies and the lies told by his supporters.
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  624.  @javieremoya  It wasn't made up thee years ago. Trump has been living in a conman fantasy life for his entire life. One business failure after another and he considers himself a master. He is a master conman, but only because whatever non-wealthy supporters he has are so stupid. So stupid that they are incapable of seeing how dumb they are.
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  625.  @brianoden1798  Yes lets look at that. Bernie is the poorest senator. Despite owning three houses (one in DC for his work, one in Vermont that is his home, and one that his wife's parents left them) and having written a New York Times bestseller, his total worth is two million dollars. One out of ever two hundred Americans is a millionaire. Now my bet is that even when confronted with these facts, because of your own intellectual superiority you will experience 0 cognitive dissonance.
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  626.  @drmodestoesq  The Dutch were probably responsible for the real contraction of Spanish power, as their stock market proved more valuable than a mountain of silver and the repercussions this had.
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  627. GM and others may "sell" their cars to the dealerships, but they also loan the dealerships the money to buy them. The dealerships finance the cars on their lots through the OEM companies that produce them. So in reality GM and company are "selling" their cars to themselves. The dealerships pay the interest on the loans which are frequently rebated.
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  628.  @paultorbert6929  So it would seem. It was never stated in the original remark that "the universe" is ONLY a concept. Common sense would infer that our ideas about the universe refer to something "out there", separate and distinct from our subjective associations regarding it. Common sense also infers that the sun orbits he earth. I may be incorrect, but I think that the problem people are having with my original statement is that they do not know what the word "fungible" means. Consider this (for the moment considering the "multiverse" as another word for an expanded conception of the same thing) the "universe", as the word is commonly understood, is: everything considered as one thing. First we have the universe of everything, next you propose a "universe" minus it's most significant quality: life. Therefore according to the assumption that makes your question possible you refer to two quite distinct things as the universe: the universe that is everything and a universe minus life. This question in itself proves that though you may not realize it, you consider the universe to be a concept that is fungible. That is: a universe minus life can stand-in for a universe consisting of everything. Yet the universe minus anything would not be the universe would it? This is not even to examine the lack of actual knowledge about the real significance and magnitude of life.  We do not know if life on earth is the only life, and there is a very good possibility that it is.  We do not even know if the universe itself is alive on a scale that is beyond our present perception, though there are many various concepts that claim it is, and this would explain a lot.  We do not know if life as it is automatically and commonly conceived of even exists. We do not know how the functioning of quantum mechanics would be altered without any observer.  We do not even know if life and the apparent perception of a universe "out there" is a simulation.  So we do not even know what is meant by a "universe without any life". Yet you still refer to it as "the universe". Which once again proves my original statement that the universe is a concept and as such is infinitely fungible.  It can be one thing, It can be more than one thing. As it is a concept that is enormously ambiguous, and serves mainly as a conceptual black box for cosmological theories. Would there be anything without life? . . . Maybe. Would it be "the universe"?  The question doesn't really even make sense. Who would there be to refer to it as such? The universe is a concept that mankind made up and uses. It has changed with our knowledge, it will continue to change as our perceptual and conceptual capabilities change in many ways, many different ways by many different minds. It is fungible. Is there a universe that is separate from our conceptions of it? Strictly speaking, no, not if the universe is held to be EVERYTHING, because our conceptions are physical just as our emotions are physical, and if the universe is held to be everything, then if you take everything and subtract a part of it that you do not even know the significance or magnitude of; it is no longer everything, and cannot be accurately referred to as "the universe". On the other hand since the universe is a concept and it is fungible you are certainly free to conceptualize it in a manner in which your question appears to make sense. This is because the universe is a concept and as such is infinitely fungible. If any further comments portray the inability to comprehend the preceding they will go without further response.
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  629. An ellipsis only has three dots, and the proper punctuation would have been dashes in the first two instances, and a colon in the third. Brought to you by The Antidegradation Assembly -- You're welcome.
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  630.  @SimonAshworthWood  A billion people who each have a dollar cannot even buy a happy meal. One man with a billion dollars can start an industry that employs thousands and allows them to put many happy meals on the table. I get the feeling that as simple as this is, it is over your head.
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  631.  @CalgarGTX  Nope it's not an American thing, it's an advertising thing. Companies like CNBC, Bloomberg, etc. exist for one reason and one reason only. It is not to inform the public, it is not to present factual information, it is to sell advertising time. Tesla does not advertise, they do not pay the vig to the media. Of course the media repays this time and time again with FUD, shabby reporting and biased presentation. They get the big bucks from companies like VW, Mercedes, Ford etc. From Tesla they get nothing. YOu figure it out.
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  632. Diesel exhaust is not only toxic, it is carcinogenic. But that probably doesn't matter to you.
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  633. Listen Millennials and younger: You want Bernie to win. The only way that Bernie can win is if you people vote in the primary. If you personally do not vote in the primary, Bernie will not even be the democratic candidate. Get you heads out of your phones, put down the video games, forget about your facebook persona and do the little bit of research to find out how and where to vote in the primary. If you can't do that little bit of work and focus, like you didn't in 2016, Bernie doesn't stand a chance, because most of the democrats older than you are for Biden. You have them outnumbered but you have to get your shit together or your dreams will become another four year long nightmare.
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  634. Everyone needs a hobby.
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  635.  @kbwalkin7316  Your income may go up, but so will inflation, and your purchasing power willl go down.
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  636.  @CarySkelton-ws2vz  You must have absolutely no knowledge of history to have made such a statement.
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  637. Americans will go into the polls and just vote from name recognition. We have to remind them if their sitting senator undermined the nation with their votes on impeachment. At election time we have to name names and remind them over and over to vote the scumbags out.
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  638. They are not going to destroy the planet, just civilization as we know it. The planet will do fine, and eventually enter another ice age. That will last far longer than man has been on the planet.
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  639.  @MitchHawkes  Unfortunately you may get to witness the effects of much more formidable weapons close up. I imagine at that point you may have a change of heart.
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  640. 2:16 . . . "gender affirming treatment" . . . Big brother has nothing on Democracy Now when it comes to manipulating the language to influence the sleepy on a subliminal level.
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  641.  @h0gheadS  Well then you didn't understand what I was writting about. Look at what I wrote: the subject is Democracy Now and how it massages the language in a questionable manner that it presents as ethical and progressive. Trans-people are another issue. I have almost no personal opinion about transexuals, although I suspect that the final bedrock facts will be molecular, and possibly not even genetic; more likely epigenitic. Though that understanding is a long way off and may be impossible to determine: ethically. On a purely human level, one thing we know for sure is that it's all part of life's polymorphic expansion in all directions on all the levels of the environment and experience that it can access. Try to comprehend before you respond.
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  642. I say you are consistently working against your own apparent interests with your coverage of the waves of people inundating the southern border. This is the main area that can keep the swing voters in the key states, that determine the electoral college, in Trumps camp. Americans do not want open borders. Only wealthy neoliberals who are lost in a fantasyland as surely as the right-wingnuts, believe that America could absorb the coming tidal wave of climate refuges and remain intact. We will be very lucky to maintain the integrity of our civilization in anything that resembles its present state. Maybe we should be more worried about whether Canada will let us cross their border. Bet they won't.
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  643. This is the most meaningless nonsense. If this was unknown to the people who are now crying out about it -- it would make no difference to anyone at all. Do me a favor. When I die take my bones and use them for something. . . . "Laid to rest" -- people are so fucken stupid it is painful. The murderers in the Philadelphia police should have been trialled but this is just stupid beyond belief -- social justice warriors expressing their brain hemorrhoids. When is mankind going to evolve out of its idiotic superstitions?
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  644.  Histopher Citchens  whatdaya mean no democracy? Don't they ask you if you want paper or plastic at the check-out?
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  645. Musk did not fire people at his factory that wanted to unionize -- the workers voted against it. Tesla has more millionaires working on the lines than any company because of stock programs. Get your "facts" straight.. Also Tesla is not Musk's company he only owns fourteen percent of it. Most is owned by small private investors. What else do you need to be straightened out about? Though I also despise Trump, I also despise inaccurate spin.
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  646. The fighters on the ground know less about the real why of why they are their than almost anybody. "The people will always be in charge here." Dude, dude, dude, your truly are a dude.
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  647. You feel that do you. Well bless your little brain.
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  648. If this is a car lent to you by GM, your general impression means not much, as they are not the same cars that are sold to the public, they are called magazine cars, and are specially built to win good reviews.
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  649. Once again the American public is ill-served by it's psychopaths. Listen psychopaths: instead of the insane and cowardly acts of killing school children, concert goers, and random people in churches and temples, consider visiting Wall Street, or meetings of the Federal Reserve Board, the bankers who ruined the economy then payed themselves hundreds of millions in taxpayers money as Christmas bonuses, perhaps a Hamptons working vacation, or maybe a midnight visit to the Mercers or Koch brothers. Put your insanity to work for the good of humanity for a change.
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  650. The state of California alone could defeat Russia in a conventional war. Don't believe Russian bluster and bullying propaganda lad.
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  651. I am a Tesla investor and was proud of it, until Elon began to spread idiotic disinformation and partisan spin and lies through X. X is a cesspool from what I see of it and yet people pay to do on X what is free elsewhere on the net. Elon is definitely intelligent enough to see that Trump is a monumental A hole. So the question is: What is the purpose of Elon's inane action, in supporting him. Like his trumpeting of the need for "Free Speech, which is really the support for the deluge of lies and conspiracy theories that has taken over social media. But Elon is in a position where he will soon be able to control the social dialogue with an unprecedented power never before seen on earth. The combination of X and XAI will allow him to almost take over the social media discourse for hundreds of millions of people. This whole championing of free speech by him is really a Trojan horse, by which he is championing the right to lie through the media, because that is what he intends to do with it: make his political lies a reality on a scale that the foremost liar of our times -- Trump -- can only dream of. Too bad about Musk, the power has finally corrupted him, and he only wants more of it. Him referring to himself as Darth MAGA at the Trump rally where he danced around like a fool was all too accurate, and probably something he intended as an insult to the intelligence of the very people who believe his nonsense. Despite this I intend to buy another Tesla because he only owns 14% of the company, is a great manager when it comes to manufacturing and growing Tesla, but he has become corrupted by power as do all humans. I had actually expected better from him.
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  652. Hardly compares to the medical costs of the people who are unknowingly and without consent having their health undermined by coal pollution.
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  653. Good question. I am kind of looking forward to the responses to your question. Do you really mean socialism or social democracy? In 'Merica most people think Venezuela, as opposed to Denmark when they think socialism. But, "Keep your government hands off my social security and medicare." . . . kind of highlights the cognitive dissonance of the fervent antisocialism in the USA. On the other hand, it's kind of easy to have a successful social democracy with an intelligent population that can depend on the USA to bear the costs of defending against undue influence and out right invasions by ruinous kleptocracy posing as socialism.
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  654. @Doomsday Defense 1977 You think progressives don't research, . . . it would be hard to find a group with less understanding of what is actually going on in the world than Trump supporters. The examples of this are endless, and often quite hilarious, if you consider kooky ignorance somewhat amusing. If you think that conspiracies don't happen in the USA you kind of missed the last fifty odd years. Iran/Contra, Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, The denial that the NSA spied on Americans or kept data on them, etc, etc, etc.
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  655. Lucid is a cool car, but the company is heading straight for bankruptcy, they lost a billion and a half dollars last quarter. Even at the high price they are charging they are not capable of making a profit.
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  656.  @BBAERSTANCE1  As the blind man said, "We shall see."
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  657.  @alaricgoldkuhl155  Smells like Elio spirit.
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  658. Trying to blow up ships, even if successful -- is not piracy.
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  659.  PJ R  No America is a thinly disguise kleptocracy posing as a republic. To call it a Marxist anything simply means that you have no idea what Marx actually wrote.
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  660. Sanctions don't seem to have been able to stop Iran from developing the drones that are killing sleeping grandmas in Ukraine.
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  661. And average of ten years. Good thing Tesla has been planning ahead for twenty.
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  662. Germany was a mistake. Building in Quebec would be an equal mistake.
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  663. The Chinese are coming and they have some nice EVs for as low as 9k USD but they are mostly state majority owned companies and have different rules and incentives than profit based companies. If Tesla had tried to make the affordable EV first and the luxury models later it would be out of business. What you are saying cannot be done with current regulations in the US or Europe. In fact even at the prices they are now charging, the only company outside of China that is capable of making a profit on EVs is Tesla. I mean you can buy a crap EV like an old leaf for cheap, but they are cheap for a reason. Currently the price of a Tesla is actually cheaper than a gas car that cost ten thousand dollars less, if you consider the cost of operation and ownership. Depending on your electricity costs EVs can operate virtually for free, except for tires and insurance. If you already have solar, or live someplace with abundant cheap hydro-electricity you would be ahead in one year at today's gas prices. I pity the fools in their dumb monster trucks who think it's cool to drive pickups they never pick up anything with, and off roaders that never go off road. They are feeling it. Good time to get a deal on a extended cab dually diesel if you want to cry everytime you put fuel in it. If you had bought a Tesla two years ago, you could have driven it for two years and sold it today for more than you paid for it.
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  664.  @TangFiend1  Sounds like bull to me.
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  665. Maybe he has "friends" that take advantage of Tesla dips.
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  666. The populace of the USA is like the proverbial frog in a pot of water. Apparently if a frog is thrown into a pot of boiling water it will struggle to get out. However if a frog is placed in a pot of room temp water, and that water is slowly brought to a boil, the frog will just sit in the pot until it is cooked to death. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases. Fact: the biggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem You have refused to take the one simple and most effective action you are capable of that will help: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death. In other words if you are concerned about climate change and you have not made this one simple and easy modification of your rapacious lifestyle, you are just another hypocrite, just like all the people you despise. You are not even struggling. You are just sitting in the pot of your own selfish complacence and being slowly cooked to death.
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  667. I wonder if Chomsky would approve of you reserving his entire interview for paid viewer. This is why TYT is the progressive show of last resort for me.
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  668.  @jamislil2703  So you have an incident of some kind and you hit a curb hard: you don't need your rims straightened or replaced - you need new motors. And you idea that un-srung weight is something that does not affect average car drivers is just misinformed. This design decision was a cheap move to avoid the expense of doing a fine design justice. My advice before you lay any money down is to actually drive one on a less than perfect surface. Many people who support the company dismiss the motor issue as you have: big mistake. This kind of motor would be OK for a fork-lift that ran in a building or something like that.
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  669.  @TrendyStone  And TSMC and Samsung have fabs under construction in AZ and Texas. Intel too.
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  670.  @singed8853  You should really write, "As the blind man said, ""We shall see"".
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  671. The USA does not have the most opportunity, though I can see why as an American, you may think that, because many of the oppertunities in the nothern European social democratic countries are not open to you as a non resident. However if you look it up, you will find that it is the countries like Denmark, and Norway, that have the highest rating of social mobility, that means the ability to be born poor and end up rich. Look it up. Social mobility is the essence of opportunity, unless you are taking about the opportunity to get laid, and even then your are wrong.
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  672. It's not really that hard to understand that even though market share has diminished a bit, total Tesla sales has increased greatly because the market in EVs has increased greatly so a few percent decrease in market share is the opposite of what it seems.
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  673.  Cynthia Drangus Lady  Quite right. The ONLY democracy in the world is Switzerland. USA was never a democracy because the founding fathers were mostly elitists who did not trust the mercurial appetites of the mob. In history there is also a total dearth of democracies. Not one anywhere. Not even in the golden age of Greece. Democracy outside of Switzerland is just a marketing ploy. A deceptive label. In order to have a well functioning real democracy there must be extreme penalties for reporting nonfactual stories as the facts about events. That is the only way it will endure and prosper. We live in a country whose apex leader tells an average of ten outright lies every day to the public. We actually live in a camouflaged fascist state.
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  674.  @Picklemedia  Hillary Who?
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  675.  @netofindra  It may surprise you to know that "the boomers" is a false concept, they have a wide variety of intelligence and progressive tendencies. In fact almost all the progressive movements of today were started by radicals in the sixties who you now group in with Goldman Sachs plutocrats. Nice prejudice and false equivalency friggin age bigots cannot see the trees for the forest.
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  676. You got that wrong. The only thing that Trump actually accomplished was a permanent tax cut for the rich. In his own word after the bill passed to a group of wannabe elitists, "I just made you all a lot richer." Look up the facts and get out of the cult.
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  677.  @radicalrick9587  It's not, ""will" end up very bad for them." It's: "Will end badly for them." If you care at all about the English language.
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  678. Bernie will crush Trump in the general election! As to whether or not he will win the presidency is another matter. My recently deceased PA coal region father voted for Trump, but would have voted for Bernie if he had not been cheated out of the nomination. In either case it is curious that we ended up with two of the most despised creatures in America as our main choices. Bernie was cheated by a DNC that has no legal obligation to be fair or honest, and who take full advantage of every backroom deceit that they can come up with. Biden is for voters who would rather see another four years of Trump than have Bernie as president. Bernie will speak for all but the power-elite and the unending supply of co-opted sycophantic slugg-heads that surround them and do things like manage the various corporate news venues.
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  679. Concerning Iowa: We will figure out exactly how they cheated, then we will figure out the next way that they cheated, and the one after that, and so on: with a factual and rational narrative about the qualities of people who would do such things. We will even say, "They said it couldn't happen here.": out of ironic gallows humor. Maybe at times their cheating will be so outrageous that hundreds of thousand of people will march or occupy something, but amazingly, almost miraculously Mitch and Lindsey, and the rest of Caligula JR's little unholy Greek chorus will retain their offices, and they will go on cheating and bullying and claiming that the law is what ever they think it is at the moment. And we will figure it all out. And you will make it funny and entertaining. But now we have reached a point in politics where: as in the attempt to transcend one's own habitual mode of mental functioning: knowing doesn't matter. You may know that the associative functioning of the thought-centric mind is mechanical, but that doesn't transcend or transform anything. So it is with our political system. We have known forever that it would be best to get all money out of politics if the most ethical and fair government is what you want. We have known forever that proportional representation is superior to winner-takes-all seesaws. We have known that the banks are incapable of regulating themselves and that the wealth of the nation is being sucked up by the military industrial professional political worker complex, that the drug war is a farce that has created the first billionaire criminal organizations. In our hollowed out lives, news has become entertainment. And the fantasyland they present to the public is a poor substitute for what should have been the golden destiny of mankind on earth and in regions beyond.
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  680. Yeh, he got to be the richest man in the history of the world, made the whole EV thing possible, landed the first rocket, is the only US company that can service the space station, is opening up the entire world to internet via the largest network of sattelites, builds the cars with the most American content and labor, is developing some of the most advanced AI infrastructure on earth, and has the biggest most powerful machine capable of interplanetary flight ever built sitting at a space port he built, because of his poor judgement. You must have done much more, a lot better -- aye?
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  681. Wasn't there one developed at Georga Tech a year or two ago that is presently in real commercial development? Can't remember the name.
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  682. If you are betting on the intelligence of the American public -- good luck with that. The American public still thinks Bernie is a socialist though the simple difference between socialism and a social democracy has been explained to them hundreds of times. In case you are one of the dimwits: the major difference is that, in a socialist state the government owns the industry and means of production while in a social democracy the economic system is capitalist and the government attempts to maintain some small degree of equality by neutralizing the maleficent effects of the inevitable concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Apparently this simple but all important difference is too difficult to be comprehended by a population that only cares about superficial labels .
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  683. Depends on if you mean tech development or military upheaval. Tech development maybe about a hundred major new worlds starting with fire, ag, and the wheel, and ending somewhere around CRISPER, AI, robots, and reusable rockets.
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  684. Consider this. Tesla just purchased a wireless charging company that has segment leading tech. Elon Musk's last academic endeavor was graduate level development in super-capacitors. Randy Munroe recently hinted that he was presently involved with tech he could not disclose for NDA reasons, but did say it had to do with capacitor/battery hybrid power units. Are you able to connect the dots? Capacitors can take up a large electric charge almost instantaneously, but it must discharge quickly too. A super-capacitor hybrid power unit would in theory, be able to charge in seconds but transfer the charge to the batteries which could run a vehicle. A car with such a power unit will make charging an EV a non event. It would happen as you drove out of your garage, or possibly over certain segments of a roadway at speed, and bill you automatically, and you would be on autopay, so the whole charging thing would just disappear.
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  685. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  686. @Alex Valencia Total nonsense. Just another lesser of two evils. If Bloomsburg wins the nomination not only will he lose, it will be the end of the democratic party.
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  687. If you actually watched the debated you will also know that this video presents the very highest moment in the whole debate for Bloomburg. What can you expect, from such a little man, . . . "my network, my money I'll just leave and take the election with me." So leave. Nobody needs your money or your ideas or your same old thing plutocracy. Plutocracy on the one hand and Kleptocracy on the other. That's the difference between Bloomburg and Trump. We are over all of you.
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  688.  @elektrotehnik94  Why would it, or more precisely why would anyone expect an economic "system" to equal a political system? A cold rolled steel conway is not equal to the social conjecture of the minor German poets either. The set of unrelated things that do not equal each other is infinite.
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  689. The "Killer App" for VR headsets, including this one is PC games. I hope you can use this headset with a PC if it is really good, because Apple can't do games like Nividia, or AMD dedicated video cards on a PC and none of the good games run on Apple. Plus Apple charges 30% more than you can build an comparable PC for and why would you even want a comparable PC if you can build one that just kicks the S out of Apple on games and other high intensity video apps?
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  690. Wow a new record. I had three comment deleted by DN today. None of them had expletives, or disinformation. Just some facts about what is happening in the world that you will NEVER see on Democracy Now but were extremely significant. DN has become the YouTube equivalent of a circle jerk. Good bye forever you censor crazed idiots.
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  691. A quite temporary situation having more to do with Russia and the war than anything else. Of course if your goal is to raise FUD then this is important. Even the WSJ used the term "in some cases" over and over. Of course it this does not fit into your Ludite narrative you just ignore the qualifying statement. WSJ also hungers for the billions in ad revenue that Tesla does not need to spend, thus accentuating every negative about Tesla and EVs in general, while GM and other ICE OEMs continue to pay billions every year to sell advertising dreams. Get a brain.
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  692.  @gwarlow  Matters less, but still matters greatly in handling.
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  693. The actual workers at the plant like Tesla and working there.
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  694.  @donettatrump2025  You are correct, and that is exactly why Campaign Finance Reform is the lynch pin to get rid of the decriminalized corruption we refer to as government.
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  695. BYD has yet to make a profit on an EV without gov subs. And their quality sucks out loud.
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  696. The best investment that VW has made in the last decade is the hundreds of millions of dollars it "donated" to the same "environmental groups" that are filing suit after suit to keep Tesla from opening in Berlin. I would have thought that even the German public would have had enough of VW groups continual cheating and abusive tactics by now.
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  697. Pushing those who suffer chronic pain from a doctors care to the underground heroin market is not an unintended consequence of short-sighted legislation. The people who brought and pushed through the reforms to pain med availability were fully aware what the consequences would be.  A primer in clear thinking follows: Who controls the government? Those who provide the candidates for office with the money necessary to be elected. Who provides this money? Mostly the financial and banking industries and a few very rich families that make massive political contributions in order to buy the legislation they want. If you haven't noticed it doesn't matter one bit whether a democrat of republican wins any particular election in the US. In either case the same people are still calling the shots. And they basically operate out of the reptilian brain. Who would profit from pushing those dependent on opioids into buying illegal drugs? These same banking interests. Why is that so?  Who do you think launders (20 -50% ) and invests the billions of dollars made by the major criminal organizations? When these changes were open to discussion before they were put through, expert after expert testified that exactly what has happened would happen: suicide, and an illegal drug epidemic. It may seem harsh, but personally I do not care one bit about the individuals people who die from drug use. I think it is stupid to continually revive and care for those who OD. Let them die, it's an easy way to go, in many cases death by opioids is like an angel of mercy from their horrendous lives and act as a sort of Darwinian disposal method for society as a whole. Of course if these drugs were decriminalized and the people were actually cared about by our society they could easily live a normal life while using. In fact the example of Portugal (and other countries that take reality into consideration) have proven that their policies actually causes a decrease in drug use. Even the use of marijuana has decreased among teenagers in the Netherlands since it was legalized, and eventually the same will happen in the states in the USA that have same laws concerning it. It just won't be cool because it isn't edgy any longer and doesn't represent a revolutionary or risky act.
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  698. Bertha you have bought into a narrative that is faulty from the get go. It has been proven time and time again that repressive laws do not diminish the use of drugs at all. In countries that have the death penalty for drug use -- drugs are still used illegally and always will be. In countries that have decriminalized the use of drugs and treatment is centered around health issues and not criminal issues the use of drugs decreases. Those are the facts and anyone who disputes them is either ignorant of the truth concerning this issue, or is making money from the draconian system that we have been bamboozled into. Got that? Probably not. Try reading what you are replying to and actually fact checking before knee-jerking.
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  699.  @johnpaul5474  lol right you are, what a bonehead I can be. I am not talking about Trumps America, I am referring to the cultures that made America attractive to immigrants. It is not the American appetite for drugs, it is a human appetite and even can be found in other species. It is natural to want to alter one's subjective experience by drugs, plants, TV, all the arts etc. The problem is the US prohibition which has corrupted everything in Mexico and much of the US. Prohibition does not work, it has never worked and has only resulted in corruption high and low and criminal billionaires.
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  700.  @kenstewart7700  Ummmm, too many flicks dude.
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  701. Good thing we have the upstanding media like FOX to keep up calm. (irony alert for the neurally challenged)
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  702.  @thebestofallworlds187  You know, because you can't say anything online or in public criticizing Jews or Israel and not immediately be set upon by the hue and cry of antisemitism. And you can't criticize Israel and get elected. And from what I have seen: it is SOMEWHAT true. Democracy Now is one of the few venues that has been critical at all about the Israelis becoming more or less like Nazis with a sense of humor, with regard to Palestine. It's a lot like how child abuse is passed from one generation to the next. The Jews in Germany, and more or less all of eastern Europe, and especially Russia, where terribly persecuted and murdered in mass. Some of them move to the Middle East and they more or less do the same thing to the people who were living there as was done to them. As much as they can under the circumstances anyhow.
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  703. Trump fans are the guys who coal roll Teslas and key them in parking lots. Maybe they will stop that, but they ain't gonna trade in their F150 for a cybertruck or a Y.
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  704. I agree totally. Those missile attacks were a red-herring, a ruse to cover the real payback that is still to come.
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  705. You are incorrect but correct. The 2000 is not even close to the most powerful artillery, but the Carl Gustav is just a memory. The most powerful artillery in the world now are probably on the old battleships of the USA that they still have. I became curious and have found out that the 16 inch guns on two Iowa class battleships are kept in operational condition along with parts as an act of the Congress of the USA. If you know of any guns that are currently usable, and are more powerful than 16" naval guns let me know.
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  706. I personally think that this is the charge cycle of Elon dropping the hammer on the competition, with outrageously advanced vehicles at prices that no one will be able to match. That will be the real game over.
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  707. We could have had Ralph.
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  708. Yes if a tyrant has complete control of the populace and their minds there will be peace: as long as their godhood is not challenged. The only true democracy on the planet is Switzerland and they seem to be very peaceful, Master Wang.
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  709. Not to mention there is nothing that is a worse return on your investment than taking a million dollars - buying a cruise missle and blowing up rocks and civilians. Unless of course the return you are looking for is revenge visited upon other innocent civilians. Just another genius investment strategy by the military industrial syndrome -- I mean complex.
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  710. No, brilliant would be what Tesla did. What Toyota is doing is damage control.
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  711. Sidis abjured the thought of his genius being exploited by capitalists for evil. Something some later geniuses should have noted before they put their talents into weapons design. My understanding is that he ended up maintaining computational machines of some sort during a night shift where he didn't have to interact with other people, and collected subway tokens.
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  712. The Rimac would win, but you would pay thousands of dollars for every .01 of a second faster.
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  713. Why shouldn't the troops be used to build stuff. Ever heard of Roman Legions? Instead of killing people they don't know or care about for the benefit of some rich industrialists they should be doing public works for us. They are being paid anyway, divert them from useless waste of national treasure and put em to some real work.
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  714.  @mjinba07  Well said. Like the Norse gods. We must strive with all our might even though we know that the outcome is inevitable and that evil will win in the end. Actually I do not think that the outcome is inevitable, but I do think this is the right mind-set to from which to strive against the power elite and their hideous manipulations and greed.
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  715.  @StephieGsrEvolution  How do I catalogue your errors, let me count the ways. Well, i am not a libertarian. I absolutely do understand capitalism. You may ascribe all the distasteful aspects of collective human behavior to a particular economic system but that would be naive and simply simplistic. I could for instance point out that the most heinous acts of the power elite in history were the acts of self-declared anti-capitalist leaders like Stalin and Mao who together murdered about a hundred million of their own people, with no capitalism involved. I could point out that the most desirable countries to live in are all socialist in government, but rely on controlled capitalist segments of their society to fund the whole shebang, like in Denmark, Norway, and their ilk. Or I could point out the failure of all modern nations that deplored capitalism. Or that until it embraced the capitalist dynamic the people of China periodically ate tree bark or each other. I could perhaps point out that there are no purely capitalist countries. I could point out that markets predate even the idea of capitalism by thousands of years, yet those countries that thrived did so because of markets. I could point out that even though the Spanish empire literally owned a mountain made of silver it was superseded by the Netherlands, merely because the Netherlands developed a stock market. But before I go on to great extent, I think anybody with a bit of perception and perspective could easily see the fact that blaming the manifestation of negative human behaviors on an economic system is naive and simplistic and anyone with two neurons to rub together can see that historically they have been there all along, no matter the economic systems in play. I further see in your response that you have absolutely no idea what I was indicating by the words RetroConfucian TechnoMeritocracy. But carry on with your partisan narrative, it is no better or worse than most of the disinformation out there. Or better yet, develop a viable alternative that will actually work. I have one, but like your response has indicated, with those whom can only look at the future through a rear-view mirror: really new ideas will not fly. Mainly because they think they already know what they are, without understanding them in the least. (Apologizes Marshal M.)
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  716. He has already gone away -- mentally at least.
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  717. "Weapons of War" . . . No country I am aware of arms it's military with semi-automatic firearms. So your entire thought process is faulty to begin with. No one uses firearms similar to those that would be banned, or bought back, in their military. They are not weapons of war. An apache gunship is a weapon of war. An a-10 warthog is a weapon of war. An m4 carbine is a weapon of war. Oh it looks a lot like an AR15 -- the only difference is in the function -- DUHHHH. . . . An AR15 is a sporting firearm. Depending on the calibre it may be a legal hunting firearm. It fires one shot each time you pull the trigger. An m4 fires many shots if you hold the trigger down. An AR15 does not do this. That is all the difference. There are tens of thousands of legal registered machine guns in civilian hands in the USA and there has never been a crime committed with any of them. Switzerland has real weapons in the homes of many citizens. full automatic weapons, yet -- no massacres. Could it be that crazy individuals who want to kill a bunch of people will find a way? I think so. In a strange way, using a firearm both localizes and announces such events -- most of the time. Whereas some self assumed evil genius type could kill loads of people and never be found out. Or some stooge would take the fall, cause the police needed to make a show. Anyhow, you do know that the extreme right-wing, is extremely armed. I mean they have weapons hidden that will never be confiscated. So many that if you really knew about it, it would give you nightmares. So if that is what you want, for an armed ultra right wing, and the impossibility of defending yourself against them, or the government:. then the whole gun-control narrative makes sense.
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  718.  @pedrokantor3997  carfentanil
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  719. He was right the first time when he said that nuclear war would be the end of life as we know it. It would not be the end of life, or even the end of human life. Just the end of "civilization" and most present advanced cultures.
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  720.  @f16poor  I do not consider myself a part of "WE" -- I have no say in the government's actions, voting for a republican or a democrat is a farce, and federal taxes are not something most people have a choice about. I paid heavily for my activism against the Vietnam war, but it did no good beyond that event, and the power-elite simply changed their tactics on reporting and draft issues. I decide what "WEs" I am a part of not some bought off politician who spews lies 24/7. To address your twisted reasoning: The power-elite brags about how they pay most of the federal taxes (mostly because of the incredible almost unbelievable difference between their wealth and the average persons} on the other hand I pay only sales taxes, and as of now the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania does not wage war against foreign nations. So you may believe you are a part of "WE" because you are compelled to support the Federal Government, but the simple fact is you are not an insider, as far as the people who make these disastrous decisions are concerned you are are not "We or US" you are a peon a "Them" a meaningless almost nonexistent inconsequential nonentity who hold the delusional belief that what they think matters to the system in general. It does not. I will not read the book. I don't care. This has always been the program of hegemonic nations since the dawn of agriculture. The people who thirst for power are of the same now as then. I am not one of them and neither are you.
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  721. Of course it's murder, but I wonder why this video was being recorded. I mean I am glad it was, but people don't usually drive along taking videos with a hand held phone. My instinct tells be that Ahmaud Arbery had experienced trouble in the past in this neighborhood and wanted evidence of it. Both these men deserve life in prison, not in those special cop prisons but in a regular prison where they will be treated as they treated Ahmaud Arbery
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  722. Of course. . . its all on expense accounts what do they care, most of them will be dead before the fruits of their failure is catastrophic enough for even the right-wing nuts to realize the consequences.
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  723. Worked great in Switzerland too. And surprize surprise: heroin addicts that don't have to spend their days scrounging for money and finding drugs are actually able to work and hold a job and live quite normally. 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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  724. "Nobody's done what I've done." Wrong lots of people faked disabilities to get out of military service just like Trump. In the Trump family you are considered a fool if you serve in the military.
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  725.  @archigoel  Wonder if Ford pays Monro for the research and development that Tesla has done?
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  726. What does "triggering rise in expansionism" mean? My odds are on nothing. So you are saying that Ukrainian lives don't mean enough to you to bear the slightest inconvenience, when your country did not even step up and enact any sanctions -- did it?
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  727. The tail wags the dog is a comprehensive assessment of how the market functions. Sometimes intentional, sometimes just a way to fill up the news cycle so that the air-time that media companies sell, still seems valuable.
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  728.  @mattb6646  I understand why you think that. But you cannot go by Trump or any politicians words. You have to go by deeds. And believe me, for every act you can come up with that Trump took in the interest of America, I can come up with one or even two that he did that where totally part of a corrupt swamp. He told how the bankers at Goldman Sachs really ran the dems, then he appointed more Goldman Sachs execs to his cabinet then any other pres ever did. This is just an example of how his actions were the opposite of his words. He deepened the swamp with those actions. You have to find out how to discriminate between propaganda and verifiable facts if you have any interest in holding opinions that reflect reality and are not just rationalizations for hormonal reactions.
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  729. @Inc. God We Trust Todays power elite have technologies that former tyrants could only dream of. They are monitoring this comments section as we write. All your comments, all your phone conversations, all your google searches, anything you do over electronic media is processed by AI inference engines and if the profile fits you are on a list of people who will be herded up.
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  730. With or without the glass?
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  731. I hear the price of chicken is up too. Do they own all the chickens?
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  732.  @zeektm1762  You do realize, do you not, that in order to attend public school, you have to be vaccinated against childhood diseases? The difference is that these vaccines have not been politicized by the ignorant. Don't think it matters? I knew a woman who never got vaccinated as a child, she visited India and when she returned she caused a local epidemic of the "mumps". Which though rarely deadly, I assure you is not fun, since I got all the childhood diseases as a child, back when there were not any vaccines for them. It's not such a hard dilemma if the people involved don't act like spoiled brats who believe nonsense, like their freedoms are being threatened by protecting them from the effects of various pathogens. By the way, thanks for educating me on facts that I knew fifty years ago.
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  733.  @125ZJK  I see, the American Indians that raided homesteads and butchered women and children (unless they took them as slaves to sell to the commancheros) then returned to the safety of the reservations for a good nights sleep and some R&R were honorable, but the commanders who got fed-up with this obvious deception and attacked the villages themselves were monsters. It all makes sense, if you are a puddin-headed woke history-free know-nothing. Yeah it all makes sense: nowhere on earth did stone-age people survive intact when in contact with more technologically advanced cultures, not in Europe, not in Asia, not anywhere, but in the Americas we are supposed to beat our breast over people in the 19th century not having post sixties sensebilities. . . . wow.
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  734.  @tigran56  Peck is certainly lying throughout the whole of his documentaries. These are lies of omission. The Europeans triumphed over these cultures largely by strength of arms and other technological means, and of course the microbes to which they had no immunity and which are estimated to have killed between 50 and 90 percent of the native population of the Americas, but the barbarism was common to both victor and the defeated, Though he pointedly never points this out. Many of the native tribes that reemerged after the fall of the huge mound building civilizations (which fell before the tidal European engagement in the Americas) learned horsemanship and became warrior cultures. Their prime means of survival was raiding each other and the Spanish colonies. They were certainly more warlike than the respective European countries of the time, but lacked only the means of totally destroying one another, because, but for the adoption of European advancements they only had stone age techniques of murdering, enslaving, and making war. The entire documentary series is rife with a twisted narrative that ignores the evils of man, such as the Moslem slavers that took more slaves than England, Spain, and Portugal combined, and were far more murderous toward them. I just don't have the time to go through this point by point, but anyone that is really interested can read about what we actually know, without the bias present in Peck, and find out that almost every sentence he utters is misleading because of PREJUDICE against European civilization and the failure to describe all the other things taking place in the world at the same time by other cultures. Lets take one example from history then I am done. During the American Revolutionary War, more continental soldiers died in prison ships in New York harbor than died on the battle field. About fifty percent of the prisoners died. However in the perpetual wars and raiding of one Indian tribe by another, virtually 100 percent of the prisoners died, and in fact were commonly tortured to death as community entertainment. So as brutal as the English may have been, they lagged behind the Native American warrior cultures. And by the way, it is naive to think that the British were the only culture that considered themselves to be the apex of civilization while employing devilish actions. All cultures did this. It is the common human condition of the power elites. It is this blairingly obvious fact that is completlely ignored in these documentries which are just a bunch of crap compared to a real understanding of what we actually know of history. But no doubt that will not matter at all to most of a particular inane ANTI bent. Why bother to study when you can just believe what you want to. Isn't this just exactly what he appears to be striving against? Consider his own personal history growing up in one failed black governed state after another. Peck is a little man of little mind and even less truth.
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  735.  @tigran56  You project too much into what you read. All people develop the military technology they are capable of. This has been the case since the Assyrians formed the first professional armies and attacked and dominated their neighbors. I never said that the Europeans were the greatest versions of humanity. I never assumed any of the attitudes you project onto me. I am simply stating the obvious. What is verifiable fact, as opposed to the false dichotomies that Peck evokes? It is quite notable that you could not find fault with the actual facts I conveyed but instead had to assume a bunch of nonsense about attitudes I neither hold nor have in any manner conveyed. This is typical of people who are immune to facts because of the beliefs they hold. Like Trump supporters who refuse to admit that Biden won the election, so are the woke puddin' heads who refuse to acknowledge the relative barbarism of all cultures and insist on judging peoples who struggled in past centuries because they did not hold post sixties progressive attitudes. Your talk of supremism is absolute nonsense when seen in the light that almost every primitive tribe refers to themselves as "The Real People, The Chosen People, The Human Beings", and various terms that discriminate against others and hold themselves out as special. This is common to all cultures, even to high schools and any group that needs to feel cohesive in the face of any type of opposition. And I repeat, it is quite telling that you cannot find a valid argument against the historic influences that I have only hinted at. Like Peck naming the crusades as the first white supremacist act, when they invaded Moslem lands. Of course he fails to point out they these were not always Moslem lands and had been taken by force of arms from the previous inhabitants who were mostly Sasanids, and Christians. The remnants of the Parthian and Eastern Roman Empire, and of course the Christian remnants of the Germanic tribes that had destroyed the western Roman Empire and settled in northern Africa, and even Greek remnants of Alexanders conquests -- as was the case for centuries in Egypt. It is also telling that you find the recounting of relevant facts tedious, long winded, and European. How typical of attitudes based on fantasy that must uphold themselves somehow, and can't really deal with the reality of the situation under scrutiny.
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  736. The concept of an immaterial and immortal soul – distinct from the body – did not appear in Judaism before the Babylonian exile,[1] but developed as a result of interaction with Persian and Hellenistic philosophies.[2] Accordingly, the Hebrew word נֶ֫פֶשׁ⁠‎, nephesh, although translated as "soul" in some older English-language Bibles, actually has a meaning closer to "living being". (From Wikipedia) Therefore there is no mention of a soul in Genesis at all -- as the word is understood today.
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  737. Censorship serves you ill Democracy Now. All you prove is that you cannot stand for real impartial truth. Such as you did when you repeatedly removed my comments today. Consider for a moment that you are what you claim to oppose in all but words: partisan and authoritarian.
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  738. I know what you mean, but the term is used in a narrow sense. IMHO AI will not and cannot be the result of programming, but well may eventually arise from developments in synthetic biology. Artificial life gives rise to artificial intelligence.
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  739. Good move.
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  740. Fucker obviously wants the demos to lose.
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  741.  @Taber01  The number of full size pickup truck in the USA that are used as basic transportation is ridiculous. If someone does not need a pick up for work they are basically dragging around a half ton of useless iron everywhere they go in a vehicle that couldn't be less aerodynamic. At 60mph most of your gas money is being used to push air out of the way. They have no concern either for the environment or their wasted money. As is said, most of these people don't need a pick-up they need a cowboy suit. I bet less than five percent of them ever carry anything that would not fit in the trunk of a sedan, and if they do it is only occasionally. It would be far more efficient to just rent a pickup for $20 a day the once a year they really need it, or just borrow one from someone.
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  742. The systemic unamerican behavior that we see in police nationwide comes from the very top. The few families that own America do not want the police to hesitate because of concerns over justice for their crimes against us. They have provided them with military equipment and turned the friendly neighborhood cop into an intolerant combat nazi. I have never seen a cop not lie in court, and I have personally been falsely charged with entirely made up charges then given the choice of facing a decades long prison term or pleading guilty and serving a few weeks. This is TYPICAL of our present corrupt system, is the rot at the core of our system, rich out of touch narcissists designing and enabling a system that is the step before the gulag and hell on earth.
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  743. @Swae Ocean Jeep is owned by Fiat -- an Italian company.
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  744. I don't use twitter or FB or any of those forms of SM, but could someone who does tweet Elon the suggestion to name the coming less expensive Tesla the model T? I think it would be a hoot and very appropriate, as the model T Ford was the first affordable auto, and it would be at once an homage and a friendly tweek to the nose of Ford Motors, and of course the kind of thing that a guy with giga balls like Elon may find funny.
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  745.  @brianhale3678  There is no need for ten commandments, just one prime directive -- . . . if you are sane: don't do shit to other people that you wouldn't want them to do to you. However if you are actually insane, but people can't tell that because many of them suffer from the same delusions: then it gets complicated. If you are older than ten and you can't tell that no religion is literally true, guess which group you are in? What possible sense would it make for a loving god to demand a blood sacrifice if he were omnipotent? Let me help you with that -- none. Where did the whole insane idea of sacrificial offering come from? Let me help you with that. They originated in the knowledge that when a predator got hold of one individual of a herd, or group, the rest of it was temporarily safe. And of course the various leaders of this insane mime (god-kings, priest, various holly men, and preachers) encouraged it so that they could control and profit from such puddin' headed beliefs. Yes, that is correct, if you, or anyone, actually believes that what you have written is true, you are a brain-washed, cowardly puddin' head, who makes a mockery of the divine. Hopefully mankind will evolve beyond the condition of believing nonsense because they are conditioned in youth, or simple minded, or fearful of confronting the reality of their imminent death. You're welcome.
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  746.  @jeep1987  Oh, I thought we were talking about a room full of gas with two people standing in it. If it's a bucket you are correct. If it's a room that obviously must have the door and windows closed since the gas is waist high, as was the original allusion offered, then kaboom upon the striking of the match.
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  747. Your delusional and listen to too many right wing lies.
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  748. Way to go, glad to hear of your good results.
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  749. Seldom have I seen so many totally false statements in two incorrectly punctuated sentences. And of course a few nitwits agreed with you. I bet you think Trump won the election and Q is really a thing, not something a few stoners made up in their mom's basement. Does the OBVIOUS need to be stated here? You don't have a Q what the actual facts are.
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  750. Here's a thought: If you didn't apply for citizenship and enter legally -- don't come.
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  751.  @incognitotorpedo42  They are. The ones sold in/near China are made in China. Only 2 of GMs 9 plants are in the USA.
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  752. So did I Electric dude. I doubled my position yesterday morning thanks to your heads up. I also doubled my position in xpeng, which did 25% today too. And a little nvidia, and REMX. Correction xpeng went up 32% today, byd 24%. Happy am I.
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  753. Why no mention of the number one cause of green house gases -- by far-- animal agriculture? Why?
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  754. And to start to overcome the weight problem with most EVs as far as handling and performance is concerned. I personally could easily live with a 2OO mile range car if it had the weight of a ICE sedan and the power of a Kronnegsig, and the cost of a Model 3.
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  755. Well done.
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  756. So what are the chances that body-double Melania is just the real Melania but after she had some work done, while she pretended to have CoVid. I say one hundred percent. You heard it here first, because I made it up, but it's still true.
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  757. I live in the USA and lots of things are great. If you live outside of metro areas you may have a problem finding things like interesting conversations and attractive women, but it's pretty much great here. That said, I think I would rather live in a Nordic country because of the lower amount of religious nuts. It's really strange when you consider it: the more religious a countries population is, the lower they rank on the happiness scale ( with maybe some outliers like Bhutan). Guess the insane objective of religion, like saving people's lives after they die, is in opposition to the harmonious and happy life of people while they are actually alive.
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  758. @Data Null Void Nice to see some sarcasm with some class for a change.
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  759. Yes we should especially censure the privileged white European civilizations that made the technology that produced a vaccine. No doubt some imbecile will respond that it was really some Muslim in the 12th century that first developed vaccines or maybe it was stone age Indian tribes who did it. This is getting so old and tiresome. Instead of bitching do better than the whites -- develop and distribute your own superior vaccine. Oh, I guess they are holding you back by institutionalized racism. It must be something that the privileged whites did to you, it surely couldn't be something about your own culture that is hobbling you.
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  760. This is laughable: Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians.
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  761.  @kronosaurelius  No pal, BYD included hybrids in their figures, get the facts before posting comments, next time. I also own BYD and hope they do good but they are not even close to Tesla in BEVs.
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  762. I take it that Germany, despite what went on in Eastern Germany under the Soviets, is submitting to Russia purely out of unenlightened self-interest.
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  763.  @kirkslayden834  . . . hearsay. And hearsay is not a valid form of evidence in any court or scientific arena, or really anywhere that has any idea how to form a point of view that has any chance of accurately describing reality.
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  764.  @digitalbookworm5678  True, but the amount of arsenic that is present in the soil and water varies greatly. Fields that had been used for non-food crops that use pesticides not allowed for food crops are among the most contaminated with arsenic, such as fields that were used to grow cotton.
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  765.  @vallee7966  I only eat organic but all I could find regarding the soil is the following: "Produce can be called organic if it’s certified to have grown on soil that had no prohibited substances applied for three years prior to harvest. . . ." Unfortunately this would have little effect on the natural arsenic content of soil and water.
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  766.  @MrDXRamirez  Also, I never claimed that there should not be legal/political solutions to this wholesale sickening of the population. It's not as if food additives are not regulated, however the regulations are grossly inadequate. It would be nice if industries had to prove the safety of their ingredients before they began to use them, and this is clearly not the case with ingredients such as trans fats and high fructose corn sweeteners etc. People are so fat and sick now that it is disgraceful, but it is not entirely due to the greed of industry, the people themselves had a hand in it. It's just not important to them, and they really cannot control their appetites for fat, sugar, and flesh -- all of which are killing them.
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  767. In case you haven't noticed the NRA is bankrupt.
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  768. Prey animals have it rough all over. Killed by a sledgehammer or bolt gun, or ripped apart while still alive by a pack of wolves. Personally I would rather have a clean death dealt by a responsible hunter after living free in the wild. Though I personally am not going to hunt or eat animals, I think that disregarding what will happen to animals in the wild is disingenuous: no hunting with few predators results in slow starvation in winter, so either reestablishing predator levels or sport hunting are necessary to prevent overpopulation and starvation. Face it, if you are a cow or deer there is little chance you will die of old age, or in a painless manner whether in a factory farm or in the wild. A least in the wild every moment is not dismal.
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  769. A star among dualee diesel pickup drivers. . . . great.
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  770. I own several Chinese EV OEMS, but I am aware that China has major problems, both domestically, and geopolitically. The end of the Chinese miracle is clearly in sight. They are basically screwed no matter how you look at it. And their policies are so stupid. They don't have and haven't been able to develop a vaccine that works, so they have to enforce a zero tolerance program that shuts down industry. And the truth is they probably started the whole thing in one of their labs. Now they are backing Russia, whose actions are going to lead directly to China not being able to get enough petroleum to continue on course, and what they do get will be at a high price. China is totally dependent on it's adversaries for it's prosperity, and on the middle east for it's oil, and even if it made a full transition to EVs and nuclear and solar, it needs petrol for it's industrial base stocks. No petrol, no plastic, no plastic, no manufacturing of most every consumer good, from clothing to iphones, to EVs. And this is not even considering that all it's oil has to pass through choke points controlled by it's enemies. Then there is the demographic time bomb, which is just beginning to hit. Masses of old people with no social security net, and very few young people to man the factories and take care of them. Demographics do not lie. It's now or never for China because in a decade or so it is so screwed. Maybe the Tesla bot will save them, lol. Their fearless leader has no idea what is really happening in his own country because he has shot the messenger so many times. I like many are counting on China in the short term, but now with the Ukraine thing and the possibility of a shut down in Russian oil that will deplete the world oil supply even the mid term is very shaky. Consider this: the pipelines from Russia to Europe run through Ukraine, lets say they are destroyed by the war, or by sabotage: it's not a matter of shut it down and start it back up. The last time Russia had to shut down the pipelines so the system would not self destruct because of over-pressure it took nearly thirty years to get everything running again, and this was only possible because of western expertise and management. These western experts are no longer in Russia. If the pipeline is shut down, which it will have to be, if either it is disrupted by violence or if Germany decides to no longer pay for the war by buying Russian gas and oil, according to Peter Zehan it will take a minimum of ten years to get it running again. In case you are unaware, there is no viable pipeline from Russia to China. China gets it's oil by supertanker form the middle east. It cannot get it by supertanker from Russia. There are no deep water ports to use. They would have to use small ships and off load to super tankers in NATO territorial waters and that ain't gonna happen. Just some word of warning about overoptimism on a long term future prosperity for China. Unless of course the Tesla bot saves them form themselves. Which actually could happen.
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  771.  @eledgy  So is the "cheat the customers and regulators" pedigree. But what does it matter if a company is dishonest if you get to go vroom vroom.
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  772.  @davidsandall  Obviously you are not a fan of fact checking, or you tried it and found out that your are totally delusional. Yeh why should the young people get free college and tech training when you didn't right, why should people get one payer health care and other social programs? They should all make it on their own right? Well bear why didn't you clear forest land for farming with a team of oxen and and axe? Because we try to give the next generation the fruits of our labors so society can advance, and not all be ignorant retrograde fools. Because we have a vision of a golden destiny for humanity on earth and beyond and all you have is selfish criticism of anyone who is more educated and more moral than you are. It may sound fine in your head but out here in the real world it all sound like the sour rationalizations of a fool.
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  773.  @davidsandall  Bernie agrees and voted against the bailout in the form it was forced down America's throat.
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  774.  @mamiegraziano9737  I am all for a conversion to Green energy, or as green as we can get at the moment, but you must know that the USA exports more petroleum products than it imports, by a lot. I think US arms sales is a different matter. Not a good matter, but it's not as if if the USA stopped all arms sales that countries would not acquire arms and use them for less than upstanding purposes. Nothing would change except the location where the companies that sold them manufactured them and had their corporate offices. I mean before the USA even existed there was no shortage of weapons anywhere.
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  775.  Sophia Anatolios  Masks help contain the aerosolization of virus containing droplets of sputum. The are only an aid. Why do you think surgeons wear masks during operations? Just to make the patient feel good? You are so scientifically uninformed. And spreading fake info like you have is stupid and dangerous.
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  776. This is laughable: Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians. As a German you have far greater shames than involvement in the defense of a sovereign nation from unbridled attempt at genocide.
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  777. The USA is the number one economy in the world despite your disinfomaiton.
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  778.  @johnwattdotca  The average person has it better than they ever did. Covid will pass and the economy will boom once again. There is less violence than there ever was before. The average lifespan is greater. Though Americans do eat a diet that will doom them to chronic illness if they don't change. It really doesn't matter what drama you present. The USA is the biggest economy on earth. Just google it. If China were to demand payment of T bills, the USA could pay them by minting a few Trillion dollar coins. But it won't because the destruction of the US economy would destroy China's economy. Where I live, which is no place exceptional, almost every plant has signs out stating they are seeking employees, many for more then thirty dollars an hour, all of them for 15 dollars an hour an up. The streets are full of new cars. New houses sell as soon as they are built. The only thing that is not running is some restrurants bars, and coffee shops, but that will soon end.
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  779. Yes Elon is such a fraud. I mean people are so delude: He makes the number one EV in the world by far, Tesla cars have the highest level of owner satisfaction of all autos, they have the highest customer loyalty of all brands, they are the safest autos in a collision, have the highest retained resale value of any mass produced auto, and without any ads in the mag, Car and Driver gave the model S a Car of the Last Seventy Years Award. Wow such deluded owners and experts.
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  780. If you want to fall asleep.
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  781. How dare you speak about the first emperor of the solar system like that? Your bodies will be reduced to protein slime in the martian refuse digestors and used to glue tanstemporal flux capacitors onto omnibots. And you deserve it.
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  782. That people who have based their lives on becoming part of the power elite seek always and only to protect and increase that power comes as a surprise to you? That the Republicans and Democrats are owned by the same corporations is a new revelation? Yes, all your revelations and bitches would be amusingly ironic, if we buy the story that the power-elite always tell. They use the same old cheap tricks over and over and it generally takes even intelligent people most of a lifetime to see what is really going on -- without becoming a complete cynic -- then they die.
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  783.  @eviloreo5439  Really? I guess that is as much a comment on your perception as my comment, being as I disagree with that undeservidly famous little chipmunk on almost every iota of what he says. He is like a Randian objectivist, and I am more a RetroConfucian TechnoMeritocritan. lol. And I don't know what it looks like on your screen, but on mine: Mr Hombre deleted his comment that my comment was a response to, probably out of embarrassment. That sort of deleted much of the context of my response along with it, so your comment makes more sense to me now that I noticed that. Peace be with you.
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  784. I can actually believe they are not far off, but that is changing drastically everyday. When people begin to understand that buying a Tesla, even at today's prices, is actually less expensive than polluting the atmosphere that will make a big difference to most. Then when they drive one, that will clinch the deal.
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  785. Yep you probably are.
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  786. Really. . . FYI Bill Maher gave more to Hillary during the last pres election than Soros. Soros is what right-wing nuts bring up when they have really swallowed the kool-aid. The reality is that, more than any other private western individual, Soros brought about the fall of Communism in eastern Europe through his support of the democratic movements, Like the unions in Poland. Soros is a minnow -- a fiction. The real evil manipulators behind the scenes are Koch and other polluters and the big money boys who don't want to pay taxes like Mercer. But I am open to a change of heart. You give me one verifiable source of information that what you say is true, that is not from some rabid right-wing fiction factory.
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  787.  @allrequiredfields  Don't blame me for your lack of reading comprehension einstein.
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  788. Below is from the actual FDA regulations regarding honey. You are totally incorrect in this. And therefore none of your information is truly above suspicion. What enforcement authorities does FDA have for food products that are represented solely as “honey,” but contain other ingredients? FDA’s enforcement authorities for food products that are represented as “honey,” but contain other ingredients, are described below. Case A : A product is labeled as “honey,” but it contains natural raspberry flavoring. The ingredient statement lists only “honey.” According to section 403(i) of the FD&C Act, a food is misbranded unless the label bears : (1) the common or usual name of the food, if there be any; and (2) the common or usual name of each ingredient, if the food is made from two or more ingredients. In this case, the name of the food , “honey ,” does not accurately describe that the food is a raspberry -flavored honey, so “honey” is not an appropriate common or usual name under 21 CFR 102.5(a). Moreover, the ingredient statement lists only one ingredient, “honey,” wh ile the food contains “honey” and “natural flavoring .” Therefore, the product fails to satisfy the requirements under 21 CFR 101.4(a)(1) and section 403(i)(2) of the FD&C Act , and FDA would consider such product to be misbranded. Case B : A product is labeled as “honey,” but it contains honey and another sweetener, such as sugar or corn syrup. The ingredient statement lists only “honey.” Under section 402(b) of the FD&C Act, a food is adulterated if any valuable constituent has been omitted in whole or in part , if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part, or i f any substance has been added so as to reduce the quality of the food or make it appear to be better or of greater value than it is. In this case, the food is represented as honey when another sweetener (e.g., sugar or corn syrup) has been substituted in part for honey. Products that contain only honey and no other ingredients are considered more valuable than a food that contains both honey and sugar or both honey and corn syrup. 3 Therefore, we would consider such product adulterated under section 402(b)(1) of the FD&C Act because a valuable constituent (honey) has been omitted in part ; under section 402(b)(2) of the FD&C Act , because a substance (sugar or corn syrup) has been substituted in part ; and/or under section 402( b)(4) of the FD&C Act , because a substance (sugar or corn syrup) has been added to the honey so as to increase its bulk or weight or make it appear better or of greater value than it is. 3 Honey is more valuable than other sweeteners. See “Sugar and Sweeteners Yearbook Tables,” United States Department of Agriculture Economic R esearch Service. 2017 . Available at: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data - products/sugar -and -sweeteners -yearbook -tables.aspx . 8 Further, we would consider such food misbranded under section 403 of the FD&C Act due to improper labeling of the food: i.e. , the name of the food and the ingredient statement (see Case A and Q&A 5
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  789.  @colinbridges8241  Also Tesla does not pay the billions per year that other car companies pay to the media for ads. Thus the continual attempt to shake them down by negative press.
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  790. Thanks Lars -- quite entertaining for a Sunday morning. Breakfast of Champions.
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  791. The shot of robots typing on keyboards: ridiculous.
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  792.  @sunburnfm  Funny: I thought that there were million of Chinese waiting to occupy units that they paid for that were never finished and were deteriorating.
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  793.  @Bee-hf3fc  Where in the world did you get the idea that the USA is a democracy? It isn't. It is a Constitutional Republic. Which is obvious.
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  794. The insurance companies will be financially responsible. NITSA already realizes that tens of thousands of American lives will be saved each year by Tesla FSD, and millions will be saved worldwide when it is fully adapted. The absolute safest cars on the road right now are Tesla's that are driven with supervised FSD. That is a fact, look it up.
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  795. Huge Teslap today, totally appropriate.
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  796.  @nozhki-busha  Why should that be the end of the war? The only reason Russia is untouchable is nuclear weapons. Ukraine has the means and know how to develop its own. Only when Ukraine is free to attack Russia will this war end, and that will only come when Ukraine has nukes.
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  797. Clearly DN has forgotten that the CCP murdered 50 million of its own people in modern times. Have invaded and taken Tibet, with no historic rationalization, continue to ferment violence on their boarder disputes with India. Have invade Vietnam etc. etc. And is a complete financial disaster coming to fruition, which is why the CCP picks now as the time to turn up the heat on the diminutive free nation of Taiwan, just to distract from the coming financial problems, and to hid the systemic corruption the likes of which the USA and other western republics have never seen or tolerated, despite the twisted world view of many of the foaming at the mouth anti-American posters who comment here.
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  798. Ahh, I wondered what kind of nonsense was at the base of your baseless and many comments, all amounting to nothing more than unverified rumor mongering.
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  799. Politics is crap. Don't waste your life listening to spin and lies. Anyone who wants to be a politician or have power over others is a failed human being and they are all incredible A holes. The leaders ARE the problem. Civilized humans with a brain and a heart do not need a bunch of high functioning psychopaths leading them, only docile mindless beasts need someone to herd them.
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  800.  @franzjoseph1837  You need to read my orighinal comment on his comment again because obviously you lack reading comprehension or alternately just see what you need to to set up a straw-man argument. I said his view on how China, Australia, and the USA conduct their international policies is naive, not his view that it should be different -- einstein.
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  801.  @larshofler8298  I simply will deny that fact. Authoritarianism has declined steadily in the USA, with a little regression here and there, for my entire seventy five short years on this orb. And if you think that capitalism increases authoritarianism you really nave a skewed view of geopolitics. No other historic factor has degraded authoritarianism to the degree that capitalism has. And China has always been painted as an authoritarian villain since the CCP took over, this is not something that just began in the last thirty years, and any fool with an internet connection or access to a library with old newspaper records can bare this out. Without western investment there would have been no Chinese economic miracle, and if the USA stops buying their exports or simply blocks the sea lanes to China there economy is dead. Even sooner than it eventually will be. So basically every thing you wrote is incorrect.
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  802. Voting only matters if you are a rust belt moron who votes like you have been programmed to. If you are a highly educated professional who lives in a progressive area your votes means next to nothing.
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  803.  @65minimom  It doesn't matter who you vote for if all the candidates are ringers for the financial industry. And both the repubs and dems are a farce owned by the biggest thieves on earth. Both of them.
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  804. Judging from the present state of the world, Osama is still winning from the grave.
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  805.  @roverrange3674  Not to mention the fact that if not for the USA giving Russia billions of dollars in supplies, tanks, aircraft, food, machine tool, trucks etc. they would have lost the eastern front.
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  806. @ Danford Smith: The words and common conceptions of consciousness and other words like spiritual are frequently used to by people to appear as if they understand things that they don't. They are both quite ambiguoius terms to begin with. Take your implication that consciousness is somehow synonimous with thinking. Many people would disagree with that and tell you that in their opinion consciousness is the matrix in which thinking takes place. Some would even tell you that consciousness and thinking are in opposition in that thinking is sequential and associative while consciousness is not either of these. Some would tell you there is a difference between consciousness and self-consciousness as it is generally referred to, as in, "the boy was so shy and self-conscious that he found it impossible to approach a woman." Some would tell you that consciousness is an emergent function that only developed because it had profound survival advantages. Others would tell you that animals are conscious in that they are perceptive and that consciousness was just an adjunct of perception known as apperception. Carlos Dwa would tell you, "The inherent deception in all conceptions of consciousness is the suffix "ness". This is sometimes referred to as the "ness" lock monster." And because of these two lines, I kinda think that Dwa knows more about this slippery notion of consciousness than all the rest put together. But then that's just me. And then of course there is the always (well really sometimes much more than others) popular Cosmic Consciousness, Christ Consciousness, Higher Consciousness Expanded Consciousness, Enhanced Consciousness, and all manner of the like, and in opposition to them is the quite resourceful and adaptable Consensus Consciousness, Mundane Consciousness, and Walking Around Consciousness -- frequently referred to by those in the know as "sleep" which as it happens is pretty much unconscious pretty much most of the time. I think Dwa got it right, there are things that are conscious but there is nothing real that the noun consciousness represents. There is conscious but no consciousness, the whole idea is just blatant social climbing by cellular aggregates : ) Or could be that the subconscious or unconscious just needed someone to keep it company and to blame for it's bone-headed mistakes. Could be the magical term of the moment that means so much that it is meaningless.
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  807. Total FUD, it's not as if it's company policy. There may have been some racist remarks that were not addressed by some employees to some contractor, but you have to understand the mindset in California, and the clearly opportunistic mindset that can turn a few insults into a couple of hundred million dollars. Jump on the sue Tesla for nothing bandwagon. The payoffs could be monumental. Anyone who even brings up this travesty of justice as a criticism of Tesla is suspect. Just slanted bull. There are Tesla haters, all over the place. I know a few of them. They are like Trump cultists or sometimes like woke puddin' heads who not only can't see the forest for the trees, they are so myopic neurally they can't see the trees for the bark.
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  808. I don't think they will even take it off beta until the Insurance companies and regulators beg them to because it is a thousand times safer than the average human and would save so many lives.
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  809. Are you sure you mean "condone"?
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  810.  @gordonpatterson4031  You are wrong about that, the problem started when the prescriptions for pain meds were made too hard for most people and their doctors to get and give, by new government regulations. Then all the people who were on monthly auto renewing pain med could no longer get them and turned to street heroin. But I guess the reality of what actually happened didn't occur to you.
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  811. 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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  812. Jimmy criticizes the DNC by saying that they never act, they are always reactionary. Well, Jimmy, you tell me one act that you or anyone else has ever done that was not reactionary? Even every one of your thoughts and feelings is entirely reactionary and to not know this speaks ill of you level of self-awareness. You must actually think that you have free-will and a little executive function in your "mind" actually acts, as opposed to reacting to stimulus both physical and mental. If you don't know that this is a delusion, you don't really know anything at all.
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  813. OK but what about the EVs that have their motors as unsprung weight like the Aptera? That must change everything, it seems the amount the tire itself would be the only thing serving as a shock absorber for the motors would entail much different engineering parameters for the tires than what an EV with a more inclusive suspension would. It seems that the force from an abrupt bump, like hitting a curb would be astronomical compared to a regular EV. I have always been told that unsprung weight was that last thing you wanted for good handling, how can unsprung motors be a good idea?
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  814. The issue that kills the progressive cause is the idea that is spread claiming that Bernie wants open borders. This is a loser among those 70k votes that are gonna decide the electoral college. It must be emphasized that nobody wants open borders.
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  815. Do your parents know you are online?
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  816.  @gomertube  You apparently know nothing about the issue.
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  817. Here's a tip for Cultists: if you are too dumb to know how stupid you are, you probably think you are brilliant. So understand that when you are also proud to be dumb the only one who doesn't know your real intelligence is you.
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  818.  @michaelruggiero9065  It would be anything but "neat". It would be an extremely messy affair. Wouldn't it be neat if the Palestinian people turned the bad actors over to the Israelis for justice, and freed the hostages, and apologized for having been living on the land that was an integral element in the Jewish flavor of religious delusion.
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  819. Tesla has and is doing more than any other single enterprise to address climate change and the gov does nothing but throw roadblocks in their path. Example: 12 incidents of accidents with Tesla autopilot all of which involved drivers that did not follow warnings or use it correctly, were drunk or going 60mph over the speed limit and there is a full on investigation because of them. A small number of Teslas have caught fire due to people driving them over obstacles that penetrated the battery packs (like anchors) result: a full on investigation that demands hundreds of thousands of documents and an incredible amount of work while in 2018 alone over 600 gas cars have caught fire resulting in over 200 deaths. Result: no investigations, business as usual.
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  820. No they don't.. They are a step backwards. They take an elegant robust system and add a overly complex and inefficient gas engine to produce an even more complex system that is even more likely to catch fire than a gas engine which is far more likely to catch fire than an EV. But the ICE OEMs that cannot compete in EV are spreading this disinfo as the only way they can delay their demise because they cannot compete in price or tech with Tesla.
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  821.  @rogergeyer9851  Well it is already better than the drunk coming home when you are on your way to work -- all the time. Also better than the semi driver asleep at the wheel -- all the time. If only that drunk had had FSD you would be alive today.
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  822. Rich people mainly do not owe taxes because they do not sell their assets and investments, but hold them, they then take out low interest loans to support their lavish lifestyles. No taxes are due on investments until they are sold. Why sell stocks when they are going up 17% per year and they can get sweetheart low interest loans for 4% or less?
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  823.  @bbag1550  Russia may be facing "real consequences" in Ukraine, but it has yet to experience consequences that Putin really cares about, but it will.
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  824. The masses of OD death that have more recently occurred are almost entirely the result of the government making it much more difficult for people with chronic pain to get pain meds a few years ago. Therefore they turned to street drugs to deal with their pain.
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  825.  @Max14211  Do you mean the point that some of the terror operations on earth are funded by the USA? Doesn't sound like the same point at all to me, sounds more like the same kind of gross exaggeration and idiotic nonsense that the right-wing uses on Fox and the other fantasy news channels.
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  826.  @donHooligan  Why would I, I gave up all meat and dairy to help the planet and I love meat, seafood, and especially ice cream. Haven't had any for thirty years and I am the most healthy seventy year old I know. And I am totally convinced that it is the reason that I can still keep it up all night at my age. I drive an EV despite the fact that I love sports cars. I only use clean energy and little of it. I kayak to work (just kidding, but I can drop in twenty feet from my back door.) And I post things like this on a continual basis just so people have some facts to make a decision on. That would be stuff like this: The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources: cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The focus on burning fossil fuels is important, but diversionary. Animal agriculture is the elephant shi$$ing in the room, and it includes the massive burning of fossil fuels in it's production and transport technologies. The most important thing a person can do to address climate change, as an individual, is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products (no Ben and Jerry's does not get a pass) leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, our grandchildren will be forced to decide if they should eat their babies in the hope of surviving a few more weeks when crops fail globally. That's the choice: do we indulge our blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered reactive opinions, or do we leave future generations a planet worth living on? Or do we just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things, and put off acting until it's beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of us, even if convinced of the dire reality of the global climate situation, will go on with our rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are we rational moral beings, or just mad machines that really have no control over ourselves?
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  827. killer cups: lol
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  828.  @65minimom  Only if Reality steps in. If people ever really catch on that there is only one party. The fucked up party of the power elite. Like Chris Hedges says, "You cannot vote against Goldman Sacks" Present Campaign finance laws have legalized corruption. Thank you Citizens United, thank you dead Koch, thank you Robert Mercer. Your fucked up ness has been noted.
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  829. Don't know if he so much "rejected it", more like he considered it irrelevant in his machine's case.
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  830.  @caseymassey2394  I really hope you are correct. I do not really feel that Bernie is a sell-out, but I do really believe that his course will be ultimately ineffective. I also really feel that I would like my many small contributions back because he wasted my money and time. Still I am not going to vote for the lesser of two evils, I would have even written in Bernie just for the zen-like absurdity of such a vote. Now I will vote for Jesse Ventura whether he runs or not, because I don't think having Biden in office will be significantly different than having Trump in office: the same misanthropic power scumbags will still own the country in either case.
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  831.  @IsomerMashups  Science used to say that. Now, not so much, as it became obvious by analysis that organic foods contain more nutrition than those raised with chemicals. Do your own research if you are really interested, it's not hard to find. It is naive to think that it's all just chemicals. That may be, but the complexity and interactions of these "chemicals" is largely unknown.
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  832. This is not a president, this is a conman clown in presidential garb and he is fooling only the idiots on the right, not even the power elite who own him.
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  833.  @jebes909090  LOL another expert that has no idea what they are talking about. We are talking about engineering not upholstery. Tesla is at least five years ahead of the closes competition in engineering and they are innovating at a faster rate than any other OEM, so no one is every going to catch up to them. They will simply pull further ahead.
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  834.  @julianshepherd2038  With the exception of low cost vehicles that would not be legal elsewhere for safety concerns, Tesla is the best selling EV in China. They are not even close to the tech that Tesla can bring. But it is the only chance that companies like GM and Volvo have to compete at all is to have Chinese companies produce EVs for them. But they are not Teslas. People who get to know Tesla engineering, or own one of their cars, sooner or later realize that they are a different generation of EV compared to all others. It's like comparing an F14 Tomcat to an F22 Raptor. They are both great planes, but there really is no fair comparison.
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  835.  @moonstruck336  It use to be in Coke, and available at drug stores, no problem though, because it was not yet illegal. You can still get prescriptions for it if you are in the power-elite.
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  836. The meta analysis of double blind clinical studies does not show any health benefits from intermittent fasting, no matter what the pop health gurus believe. Real water fasting for five days or so is another matter.
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  837. Cool idea (except for the unsprung motors -- sheesh! Cool idea but the whole deal smells like Elio to me.
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  838. Would you say that if there was a five percent price decrease you would buy? If the answer is yes, then go ahead. Compared to the cheapest new model 3 that was ever availible (2017 $35k) the present lowest cost model3 is 5.16% cheaper in inflation adjusted dollars: at $40,390. If we keep going like this, Teslas will be virtually free at a hundred thousand 😂😂
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  839. Why screw around? Give Ukraine tactical nukes, sensor fuzed ant-iarmor cluster munitions, and thermobaric warheads. They should have never surrendered their nuclear arms to Russia.
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  840. No army had more courage and dedication than the Imperial Japanese Army in WW2. So much for that theory.
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  841. My two cents is that as far as ss production is concerned, it's a drop in the bucket -- but I'm just guessing. Don't really care enough to find the stats, but if you do it would be an easy matter to actually figure it out. I think Tesla will never be able to fulfill the CT orders rapidly enough for it to really matter, with the Indonesia and New Calidonia supplies in the works for batteries, may only fluctuate because of other market factors that the ss industry itself has nationally and internationally. I wonder if CT will ever be made anywhere outside of Texas.
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  842. Nvidia is pretty good too.
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  843. Just maybe it's because not a lot of Teslas were shipped to Ireland. I mean every Tesla that rolls off the line is sold my friend: so the kind of stats you are quoting may not make the point you are aiming at.
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  844. No Bro, a guy told me on youtube comments that it is all a Soros plot. The election cheating, the intentional release of Covid to destroy Trump, all of it. It's all Soros.
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  845. Lol, how can these guys be so ignorant about the market. Many people are making EVs but Tesla is selling them. They are a generation beyond all the other OEMs. It's like comparing an F-14 to an F-22. Both are fine planes, but not really comparable. Tesla cars are a generation beyond all the others, and when the others get to where Tesla is now it will be further ahead then it is now because it innovates far faster than anyone else of size. 1.9 to 2.2 million SOLD this year.
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  846. Ask the Tibetans how fine the Chinese model is. The Chinese economy is doomed because of the demographic cliff that it is facing and which was entirely caused by the generation of insane policies by the system you extol. The Chinese have entirely lost sight of the fact that without western investment and intellectual property they would still be eating the bark off of trees as occurred periodically before they opened up to western investment and the use of capitalism. China is dependent upon the theft of intellectual property both for economic development and especially for it's defense industry. If you don't know that you are a brainwashed fool. And FYI "good by" does not mean "goodbye".
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  847.  @Frank_W.  Ford Foundation, major contributor to CR.
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  848.  @oldbloke204  Yes, a brain.
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  849. Also failed to mention that they produced more cars in June than they ever have before.
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  850. Bernie for pres, Tulsi for vice, Liz for Sec of State.
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  851. Viruses are China's biggest export. Every year the world is infected because of the lack of sanitary conditions or any sense used in their animal abuse and husbandry. We are sick of it. All the flues come from their friggen pig farms and use of bush meat, and marketing wild animals for food.
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  852. Tesla did borrow some federal money early on in it's development. It payed it all back, with interest before it was due. And I believe it payed a penalty in addition for early repayment. You know nothing and either know your are lying or are a complete dupe. Elon Musk has personally paid more US taxes than any other person in history ever has. He has paid over a million and a half dollars in taxes for every day he has been a US citizen -- get some actual facts -- fool -- because your facts are like the facts of a Trump supporter, alternative facts, -- lies.
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  853.  @tedcrilly46  I can see how it seems like that because of the worldwide extent of American focused media, but really it's been that way everywhere I ever lived. Live in NYC and everything is NYC centric, live in east bumfuck Wyoming, and it's gods country. Live in Quebec and Quebec is the main thing in life. Most people just think that they are the center of the universe. It's nothing personal or limited to the USA it's a natural expression of the survival instinct. Everyone is the main character of their own lives and if they aren't there is something wrong like they are in a cult or something. Since at present the USA is by most measures the most powerful country economically and militarily this comes across as a collective national characteristic. It's probably about as true as the present right-wingnut propaganda that all Europeans look down upon Americans, think they are stupid, uncultured and are easy to take economic advantage of. Well there is some truth to that on individual levels, just look at the interviews with Trump supporters -- Can they all believe the incredibly idiotic ideas they express? But I think Europeans are intelligent enough to realize that stupidity (in a relative sense) is not a general American characteristic.
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  854. In the sixties we had a saying, "There's never a problem until there is trouble." How about the American Revolution that came about largely because of an intolerant response to a riot. There are literally thousands of instances where nothing was done about some problem until someone or some group caused trouble. However it is probably more fun to be a right wing idiot protestor. The police don't fuck with you and you get to bring your assault rifle to the protest. Why do you think that is Einstein?
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  855.  @Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism  Because most of the nonblack immigrants came after the slave trade was abolished and most of the black Americans were brought here long before that.
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  856. Blinding flash of the obvious: People are motivated to become police because they like to push people around and do not want to have to pay the natural consequences, and they don't really want to work, like a roofer or delivery guy which is about what most police qualify for as far as intelligence and education (in the USA). The police problem is much deeper than you address, but the issue you discuss is the bed rock of a rotten system, designed to alienate teens and create an ongoing population of people who detest the hypocrisy of the law as it really functions, and place police in an adversarial relationship to the public. With the exception of the PA state police, who have always behaved professionally in my experience, every cop I have ever run into (on duty) was basically an authoritarian personality who did not give a shit about truth or facts, and when I was a teenagers several just totally made up traffic charges against me, because my car was too cool and my girlfriend too hot. So this was their petty way of trying to bring me down. When I was growing up, most of the police in my hometown actually walked beats and several refused to wear firearms (not because they were wimps). Now in the same small town, the police are militarized, if you do not come to a complete stop, for instance, three squad cars will be involved in your ticketing, and all the while, police who are no longer community residents, but outsiders, act in a totally obnoxious manner, such as shinning their spot lights in your rear view mirrors to blind you while you are searching for your documents. If their obnoxious behavior is questioned the will reply that it is for their own protection. I will note that no policeman has ever been attacked or harmed in this small PA town, ever, and the truth of the matter is that a job as a Amazon delivery driver is twice as dangerous as the average police job and that of a roofer is four time more dangerous, yet they manage to do their jobs without acting like teenage morons. God help the person who does not submit to every order by these guys, at the very least they will find themselves owning hundreds and hundreds of dollars for fines of violations that are totally contrived, or like some have found out, if the authority of these maniacs that use their petty authority to aggrandize their egos is questioned they may be beaten to a pulp and then told that if they say anything they will be charged will all manner of crimes. I personally have had police just make-up evidence and lie on the stand against me for things like pot possession in the seventies and driving offenses in the sixties at least four times in my short seventy three years on the planet. On the other hand, I have never needed a cop for anything, and anytime I reported a theft or vandalism, nothing was done about it. So over a lifetime of observation, I would say that you are totally correct: the police we have are with few exceptions, the wrong types for the job. Nothing will ever be done about this, because the current is in the other direction. Police are far more "equal" than the average person, and can literally murder people and get away with it almost all of the time. This is what the power elite wants. They do not want a bunch of helpful public servants, they want people who will not hesitate to kill on command. And these bastards are interchangeable, a cop in the Kremlin is no more an asshole than a cop in Waco and possibly less of one. A lot of them just want to shoot someone, to give them psychological satisfaction and release. They are so more than equal that killing one of their dogs is treated like killing a human, and they will murder you is you try to defend yourself from a K9 attack. This is not conjecture it is the state of affairs.
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  857. Hey why run the most popular politician in the country when you can run the most hated woman?  DNC logic turns Orwell inside out. That's why the obvious is so damn obscure if you play their game.
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  858. Yep, there is lots of that going around.  You have my sympathy.  I know what it's like to live in pain, and I know what it's like to die in pain, as I watched a beloved great aunt die of leukemia, in agony, while her care takers and sisters refused to give her the pain meds that her doc had prescribed, because they were afraid she would get addicted.  Can you imagine the stupidity, they knew she was dying and they were afraid she would get addicted.  That shows you how brainwashed the previous generation was, but now the government is taking up the stupidity slack. I don't have time to look into it, but if you do, I think you will find that it was not Obama who got these laws passed.  There was a period when the CDC was accepting testimony and suggestions on pain meds, but I think congress passed the law.
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  859. The 16 presidential election will actually take place during the Democratic primary.  Whoever wins the primary will win the election.  So get out and vote for Bernie in the primary.  Because if Hillary wins you are actually reelecting Goldman Sax for the tenth time.  Hillary is a one percent wannabe.  Bernie is of the people and for the people.
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  860. Dan Dennet and some of his atheist associates have been backing the hypothesis that a course in comparative religion, taught at the high school level, would quite painlessly lead to lots less true believers.  Personally I believe it would be more effective to teach it during grade-school then again in a more sophisticated form in high school.  This would allow kids to ridicule the various lies of other religions in the fun yet direct way that only kids have.  Then as they get the influx of hormones and become teens, they can turn this sense of irony and humor on their parents religion, should they be so unlucky as to be stuck with some kind of fundamentalist parents. It is really too bad that humans generally equate a native sophistication and depth of their quite physical limbic system, with what they refer to as "spiritual" and about which, similar to the dynamics of the more recent use of the word "consciousness" anyone can say any kind of nonsense and there is a good chance no one will call them out on their ignorance. Here is a fun fact to confront a true believer in the Bible with.  For all intents and purposes, the current actions of ISIL are near identical to the actions taken by the ancient "Israelites"   I think the man's name was Joshua, and if memory serves, when he moved against his neighbors, the Israelites would slay all the men, sell the women into slavery, and take the virgin girls for brides.  And of course take their land and possessions, but sometimes the madness even extended to killing all the animals. They, like ISIL, said that God told them to do it.
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  861. So if someone body slams this clown they should get the same slap on the wrist as he will get. Go slam him.
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  862. Democracy Now is Consistently the most coherent and courageous voice in the legitimate news media. We are all waiting for the next 9/11 that these retrograde de-evolutionary anti American bastards who wrap themselves in the flag will pull. Let's use the power of Deep MInd to destroy them this time. As Robert Mercer is using the power of AI to destroy us, so that he and the Koch brothers don't have to pay taxes on their booty. These idiot savants are replacing a golden future of humanity that is near at hand, with their own insane and inane vision. Campaign Finance is the lynch pin. Mercer knows that and that is why he attacked you by decreasing your political value by backing such scams as Citizens United and the hydra of fake institutions that spread his poison. As long as they maintain the present system of legalized corruption of our elections through campaign contributions and actions that would be illegal had not these same interests changed the laws to make their criminal activities legal. It's time to cut through all this, they can deflect us endlessly with the incredible wealth that they have actually stolen from each and every one of us, and brainwashed the dimmer among us to fight in their behalf. They are masters of the illusion of legitimate power, anddo have some power, as long as they can pay gunmen, enough to overcome their qualms about shooting their own, or just hire psychopaths who see a police career as a way to exercise their desire to kill and destroy others without the natural consequences. All money must be taken out of politics. It is not normal to believe that someone who seeks a position of power is a good person. The worst persons seek power, the best have to be dragged to it. Why do so many think that leaders should be revered? Look at all those glowing faces in Trumps crowds, some of them weren't paid, aren't millionaire thieves who will personally benefit from his kleptocracy and are cheering against their own best interests. Yes a lot of them are stupid, and that is why we have Trump, stupid people along with everyone else was given a choice by Goldman Sach in the last election, and that choice was, "Would you rather live in piss or shit?", and they chose shit.
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  863. lol, yeah CBN2C the only source for real news is Fox. The only real source of statements like yours is. . . well there are no real sources of such statements, outside of Russian bots and adolescent boys in dire need of attention.
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  864. This is why Trump is president. Robert Mercer does not want to pay taxes and would rather have the USA fail entirely than give a dime to the society that made his wealth possible. There is only one issue and there has only been one issue for decades and more. Campaign finance. Mercer realizes this, that is why he had Citizens United pass. Now he is free to buy the government he wants. But it is always a million red herrings so that the power elite can distract the public attention, make a crisis in Korea, pretend to bomb something, or just kill a bunch of random people, then supply the remedy in the form of more bombs. Trump is basically the puppet of Robert Mercer, and Mercer exhibits every evidence of being nothing but a lucky idiot savant. The USA is now ruled by a bunch of assholes that deserve prisons sentences, and we still put up with it. There is no way to vote against Goldman Sacks, they have ruled since Reagan though every administration and have brought about the demise of the USA economy. And still the dummies support Trump simply out of hatred for crooked Hillary. Isn't something basically wrong with a system that gives us the two most hated people in the country to vote for? As Gurdjieff said, "Even God has no defense against stupidity."
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  865. I know that the unenlightened have a bunch of rules that they have made up regarding how someone who has awakened should behave. Since there is no chance that anyone will come to know who I am, I am unconcerned with these "guidelines". I did not say that psychedelic drugs can never be of any benefit to an individual.  They may, They may not. I simply said that psychedelic experiences are not the same as a true awakening.  They simply are not.  I have experienced plenty of psycho active drugs back in the sixties and seventies especially, and I would have believed that an experience of awakening would be similar, in fact I did believe that for a decade or so, until I found out in quite spectacular fashion that they are not nearly the same thing.  Not even close, not even in the same world. Of course as to whether or not I knowist of whence I speak, that is something that will be determined in the mind of the reader of this little note.  If you like what I am saying you will believe it, if not you won't.  The human mind is really as simple as that in regards to such matters. But rather than going on about my own experience in such matters, which I can bring about without drugs, now very easily and which resemble psychedelic experiences only in the degree to which they are different than the stupor that is commonly referred to as waking consciousness, rather than that I will simply quote one of my favorite authors on the subject -- Carlos Dwa Of Molecules and Men As is evident to anyone who has the feel for what has gone on in the so to say “new-age” movement – (for want of a better moniker) for what was largely the fall-out from a tidal influx of psychedelic availability to college and high-school students, eventually resulted in a glut of seekers of one stripe or another. People who were convinced that there was something beyond the consensus parallax of the herd, of the rigidly controlled national mass media (admittedly there were many more independent and mom and pop newspapers and radio stations compared to today, where clear channel and other corporations, like Fox and GE own almost all the significant media venues, but such is not the topic under scrutiny just now.) For the first time in the history of mankind, that is recorded, we had large numbers of persons with little or no pertinent frame of reference, or preparation, and sometimes not even a salubrious setting in which to undertake such a voyage into the unknown, blasting themselves (ready or not) into intense psychedelic experiences. Of course there was the corporate media's disinformation about the whole scene: sort of an unholy melange of predatory capitalism and psychotic projection of the unconscious fear of seeing oneself without all the comfy civilized buffers they had erected. And there was a social reaction that was out of all proportion to the danger posed by such psychoactive substances. Or as Leary observed, “LSD is a psychoactive compound capable of causing psychotic reactions in persons who have never taken it.” Of course mankind had traditionally used recreational molecules for more serious purposes, no need to get into the living ethnobotanical information systems to be found in the mosaic of brujos and their apprentices, or the mystics and their secret rites and mystery schools, sometimes something real for their respective culture was to be found in them, sometimes not. Many of the people who's lives were impacted by the consumption of the psychedelics, realized at some point, that though they did indicate latent potentials within man, they were in themselves a dead-end, other than for intermittent recreational use. But many people continued to believe that the states offered by various psychotropic compounds reflected unused potentials within the human organism. There are many different informed opinions, such as that of Alexander Shulgin the rediscovered of Ecstasy and a former lead chemist for Dow who has had a decades long study and has tested hundreds of different psychoactive compounds legally on human subjects, his theory is that: since the metabolic pathways that these molecules activate are present, but the substances themselves are for the most part missing (of course DMT has been found in all body tissues, but in very low doses, well below the threshold of notice) Alexander contends that these compounds are something that humans used to be able to produce but they have lost the capacity and are no longer able to make them. There are other views on why this is the case, my view is that we are still able to produce them, under the right conditions, with the requisite intention and know-how (a very peculiar kind of know-how since there are no words or thoughts involved in either the knowing or the practical application of what is “known”. But even this, is not our stop on this gorgeous Saturday afternoon. But I almost spoke too soon, because here is our stop now. We are wondering, well some of us are, just what is the relationship between some of the stronger, more archetypical psychedelics, and the living expression of enhanced consciousness that arrives without the use of external molecules? I mean there must be something there right? (this is a rhetorical question, not an affirmation). Thousands of people have written about the similarities of psychedelic experiences and the classic descriptions of the enlightened mind (forgive the apparent oxymoron). I could say something like, “I suggest to you. . .” to sound more politically correct. It hardly seems worth it, and for those for whom this description is anything more than an amusing novelty, it is totally unnecessary. What are the similarities of mescaline and an expansion that comes about without the use of psychedelic molecules? What is the comparison of it to LSD, DMT,psilocybin, etc.? I will admit that there is something that a natural awakening has in common with all of the aforementioned substances: It is as totally different from habitual, consensus, herd-awareness, as is the peak of, not some watered down x or some other post-historic mini dose like are now common in the rave and disco scene, but a full blown, psychedelic experience from a full dose of the respective hallucinogen. Natural awakening is AS different from pedestrian forms of consciousness as a 300microgram LSD trip is from watching the news on TV. But that is the only thing they have in common. I am gonna repeat that, so that any reader will realize that I mean exactly what is written. There is nothing else similar about them. Some people will be drawn toward philosophical contemplation on these drugs, that is related also, but only in a secondary ancillary manner, and a person on these drugs may not feel like that at all. On the other hand a natural awakening will move a person into the very center of, not thoughts and words of contemplation, one couldn't say a word or have a thought if one's life depended on it, but one is moved by a luscious luminous torrent: expanded into the cool living flame of contemplation without words or thoughts. This is NOT the booby prize (where enlightenment is the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment.) Oh, no, not even close. OK, I do admit that realizing that there is no such thing as enlightenment is a large step closer to it than believing that any ideas or thoughts you have about it as a subject have anything to do with the reality of it at all. So in that sense, realizing that what you have been striving for and sucking up disinformation about, is an illusion, is clearer than not knowing it is illusion, but knowing this, is no closer to the reality of this thing, it's just less far away. © 2012 Carlos Dwa
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  866. By the way, for your information, yoga is not the original means of natural awakening.  And further, if you are referring to yoga as it is known in the west, as postures etc. as opposed to the tantric traditions, it has nothing to do with it at all.  But then neither does anything else.  No one can magically enlighten someone else.  No one is permanently enlightened, it is something you have to do every day.  After you wake up, you have to wake up again.  No one can tell you anything about it that is accurate.  This is one of the only things it has in common with intense psychedelic experiences: it is truly indescribable, but it is not confused at all.  It fits humans perfectly, unlike experiences brought about by various poisons used as drugs.  In fact there is something slimy and hideous about tripping on drugs in comparison.  But if you don't really have that comparison, you cannot know this, or in what sense it is true.  When you actually have the physical choice of "Why would I want to do this? (drugs of the psychedelic variety)  When I can do this. (awaken to a higher cosmic intelligence and consciousness without poisoning myself) then you also would agree with what you now disagree with.  It's only your mind holding you back -- forget about it. Every thought you think you are having about it is wrong, and not just a little -- as totally incorrect as is possible, because every thought that anyone has ever had or will ever have about it is wrong, it cannot be a subject.  
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  867. righthatter4life I did happen to mention that someone's best chance is to find someone who can actually activate the system I refer to and interact with them.  But I think that there is slim chance that that is a possibility.  That may seem a bit unfair, but what is fair about millions of sperm dying so that one can make it to the egg?  What is unfair about thousands of sea turtles dying so that one or two can make it to adulthood?  What is fair about the fact that so few people actually understand quantum mechanics even though much of our present technology is based upon it?  What is unfair about these things?  . . . Nothing.  Fairness is a concept of the mind and human culture, awakening is not, it is purely physical -- purely primal.   There is no one on earth and there never has been who can tell you what you want to know in the way that you want to know it.  No one can tell someone else how to awaken, simply because anything that is said about it is misleading and incorrect.  That is because, it is entirely beyond the mind, your questions are wrong, in the same sense as is pointed to in the Zen koan in which a master (someone who has had the grande experience and hasn't gone nutz or started a church or something, and has made some inroads into actually understanding what happened and how to increase their ability to remain in this functional mode and bring it about in themselves) is asked if a dog has the Buddha nature.  His answer was mu -- which meant "Your question is wrong."  Another example of a wrong question would be for you to demand I tell you if the elephant in my room is orange or madras.  You could go into a gym and use a forklift to pick up the weights.  It doesn't matter how many times you do this or how strange and impressive it may seem, a person will never develop the muscles necessary to lift the weight if they don't use the system that can respond and adapt to this end.  Among those lost in what they believe to be their minds, their opinion, their concepts and thoughts, sarcasm and irony can pinch-hit for intelligence. Thanks for the well-wishing, I didn't anticipate that you would like what I had to say, but then again it wasn't really said in response to you, but in response to the slim possibility that someone with not only the potential, but the passion to awaken would come across this sometime.  Personally I have nothing to sell, and there is nothing that I want from anyone, other than what is necessary for physical existence.  That is why I come right out and say things that those who have never in their lives been outside of their mechanical automatic functioning, and don't even realize it, have established in their wisdom, is unbecoming for an enlightened one to do or say.  The whole concept of an "enlightened one" is total bull.  No matter how awake someone is capable of being in a cosmic sense, they are just a blond one away from being as ordinary as any Joe Shmoe, at every moment.  All they have to do is start thinking again, or writing, or talking, or believing and identifying with the thoughts that automatically flow through them.  I know for instance that when I was in the depth of my own psychonaut activities with regard to these molecules, it would have cleared a lot of things up for me if I had run into someone like I now am.  Sorry you don't like the facts about my experience, most who claim some knowledge about such matters will immediately be compelled to disagree with me -- to the same extent to which they are firmly in the arms of their automatic mental functioning, and firmly believing that they are the thoughts that run through them.
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  868. Unimpressive.  The man was incapable of stopping such an imaginary compulsive behavior:  what chance would he have of anything real anyway? For this kind of slop, and squirrelly behavior to be taken for something heavy and mystic, is more a comment on the low level of our culture and peoples insane boredom with their own minds, than it is on his personal inability to awaken.  Boo hoo.  I feel for him.  Poor little compulsive pot user (this in itself is both laughable and telling.)  Now what will pull him out of his inevitable new stupor?  I guess he will have to find the next crutch. 
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  869. ctually that is a typo it should read "What chance would he have of anything real anyway?" > What do you mean by real? If ones aim is to awaken, then language can be precise because everthing is realtive to this one aim.  In this sense real is what a person is able to do.  Can one modify their conscious experience in such a manner as to evoke insight and ecstasy? A person who is dependent on external recreational molecules to alter their real-time experience cannot do this.  If they could, quite simply, they would not be taking drugs -- excepts possibly for fun on occasion -- or real physical pain.  The experiences provided by the phsychadelic family of drugs provide a distorted reflection of what a real activation of these capacities is like, but it is extremely distorted and anyone who has experience the perfectly apt nature of real awakening would not waste their time on such dead-ends.  Go on over to one of the web sites that is centered on drug experiences: confusion reigns: people are ripe to believe any nonsense about "entities" and whatever that someone is ready to spue.  They are confused because what they experiences has extreme impact with no comprehension of the territory, and the territory was seen through a lense with fatal disorting qualities. Remember: this is all relative to awakening, and fatal means the end of this possibility -- at least until they wise up. So in this sense real means something one can really DO. >I know you know that most people are insanely stupid. If you are stupid, then you are going to be bored with your mind. What was written was that people are insanely bored with their own minds.  Which is quite a different thing than what you are talking about.  The more intelligent a person, the more chance that they are bored with their mind and so it is diverted endlessly, but it matters not a bit if it is diverted by sudying Synthetic Biology or watching two guys cause future brain injury to each other in UFC.  Remember it matters not a bit with regard to awakening, not some imagined absolute value.  Just as it matters not one bit if someone spends their lives taking drugs everyday, to the matter of awakening, it awakening is not thier goal.  If it is however, everything changes, then it matters. It is real and physical, and chemical, no doubt, but it is not just taking these molecules, it is the act of producing them internally endogenously, which is the key, because each breakthrough is the resutlt of a fundamental insight into the nature of one's existence, and life in general. It seems there is a process of evolving, and the process is delightful, until one actually awakens and finds that nothing, including the process of awakening, and anything ever said or thought about it by anyone including the worlds first ranked spiritual heros, has anything at all to do with it.  Except in a negative sense that one can say, what it is not, or what detracts or keeps people unaware. > I get the feeling that you who onto the belief that every human mind is capable of real enlightenment. I happen to disagree. Your feeling is incorrect.  No human mind is capable of enlightenment, and as long as the process which is regarded as the mind, in our culture, is active, awakening is impossible.  That is, as long as what Dwa refers to as the "thought-centric-mind is identified with, awakening is impossible. >You've done these drugs and didn't have a great experience. Where did you get the idea that anyone didn't have a great experience?  Just sort of assumed it? At the time I thought LSD, shrooms, dmt, STP, and expecially peyote were great, and was quite an advocate of them. > Why are you so confident in your beliefs? Is you ability to reach out and grab something with your hand a belief?  Surely even though concepts and word are used to describe the ability one may have to grab something with their hand, you realize that the act of grabbing is in no way dependent on the ability to explain the act in words.  Though these expressions are conceptual and wordy the act of awakening has nothing to do with beliefs, or words, or any half-assed explanation that anyone may give about it. So it seems that everyone of your statements and questions were not based on anything that was actually written or implied.  Keep this in mind if you have any further statements or questions that do not receive a response. It's rater simple really.  This is your situation: It is as if you are in a roadside dinner late at night perhaps a Waffle House.  You are sitting at the counter minding your own business but you can't help overhearing the person further down the counter who is extolling the virtues of his new Corvette to the world at large. Holding forth on its superior qualities. There is a flash of headlights in the windows as a car pulls into the Waffle House parking lot, and a stranger enters and sits between you and the Corvette man, whom is still holding forth on the qualities of his ride. This goes on for another half cup of coffee or so until the Corvette man says, "The corvette is the equal of any supercar on the market.  There is virtually no difference between a Corvette and a Bugatti Veron Super Sport. At which point the stranger that entered says, "I used to own the exact model of Corvette that you are talking about, and I also own a Veron Super Sport and I assure you the only thing similar about them is they both have four wheels." Now the decision that you have, is to decide whether or not you believe the stranger.  Maybe if you like what he said you will believe him, if not you won't.  But the woman sitting at a booth by the window believes him because her view into the parking lot is not obscured by her own reflection in the windows like yours is, and she can see the Veron parked outside.  In this metaphor windows equals words.
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  870. How much did it cost to give almost all the real wealth in America to a hand full of super wealthy assholes?
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  871. You do realize that Islam is at war with the west? They have been real bad at it so we don't hardly notice it, but eventually these stupid terrorists are gonna piss off the USA and European Union so much that they forget their manners and show the house of Islam what real modern warfare is like, not some limited police action were we try to fix what we broke but a real war. The the house of Islam will develop a new vocabulary, which will include new phrases like, neutron bomb, sensor fuzed weapons, swarming drones and robots. Just keep it up. . . .l Or you could put away your religious insanity and walk into the glorious galactic future of mankind, but I kind of think you prefer death. In a war where one side loves death, and the other loves life, they will both end up getting the thing they love.
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  872. Bernie-bait-and-switch, we changed nothing. The greedy short sighted banksters are about to get the next big break, everything that Hillary can steal from the dregs of the American Dream will be given to the banksters. Nothing will be done about campaign finance. This is the lynch pin that has legalized corruption in our system. Hillary will do nothing about this. The Republican base hates Citizens United but is too stupid to realize that they did it. They are the reason that corporations have free speech. Hillary fighting against the establishment -- talking about a friggin oxymoron. I looked in the dictionary and found a picture of Hillary next to the word "Corrupt". Then I looked up Hillary Clinton and found a picture of Goldman Sachs. Whoda thunk? Like anyone . . . with a brain. Fool me once: shame on you. Fool me twice: you won't fool me twice, but you don't have to because of the masses of nitwits who cant tell a fact from the asshole they have their heads up. Trump 1 Hillary 4 USA 0
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  873. Trump just chickened out of the debate. Trump backed out because he will be crushed.
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  874. Are the people in Russia really unaware that the USSR was responsible for the largest genocide in history against the people of the Ukraine (seven million people in one year, way worse than the Nazis) and that they attempted and were somewhat successful in replacing the native populace with people from Russia? You can't just change the name of an evil empire and say, "That wasn't us who did that"
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  875. +Jac Flasche http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%9333
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  876. Almost everyone has slavery in their family history. Everyone should get reparations. Rome, or it's present guise as "The Vatican" owes me millions and millions for the Germanic folks they took as slaves and worked to death or just murdered for amusement. Pay up motherfucking child molesters, witch burners, fabulously en-robed devils. Fantastic liars about the nature of existence --Pay up. (For those slow steppers among us -- this was parody.)
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  877. So what else is not new?
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  878.  @jimmybaldbird3853  It's actually a Constitutional Republic.
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  879. I hope Tesla goes down again, but I doubt that is gonna happen. I bought on the dip, but I should have bought more at 889, a lot more. I kind of doubt we will see a big discount for a while, and even then it will be relative to the current price.
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  880. Another existential reason why it is so much more significant to get Bernie in office than the apparent political soap-opera that is being presented to a gullible public. The choice is clear, only three of the potential candidates are not already co-opted by shadow influences and though Yang is smart and nice, and Tulsi is courageous, sane and passionate, statistically, only Bernie can win the primany. Bernie will bring an end to the reptilian brained policies that have been enacted by Caligula JR.
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  881. People have been claiming imminent apocalypse since the advent of human civilization. Few of them realize that the projection of their knowledge of the inevitability of their own demise is the source of this fantasy.
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  882.  @ricardoxavier827  What you wrote, and more important, campaign finance reform that entails the total end of all political contributions. Which is a legalized form of corruption.
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  883.  @gan5045  It was not I who made the incredible percentage statement. What's the point? . . . That doctors are nazis? Just stupid.
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  884.  @mrwanksock  All I am asking for is a citation that even partially verifies the OP. All the other comments are just gossip. Like your statement that most of the nazi doctors were awarded phds. What is your source for such a statement. I think it is your imagination.
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  885.  @gan5045  So in your mind the fact that the USA incorporated leading Nazi scientists into their own programs is the same thing that they are doing with Fauci. How does that make any sense at all? Some US scientists were formerly Nazis, so Dr. Fauci is also a Nazi and if you don't believe that you are falling for the same old con? Please explain to me the reasoning or even tenuous evidence behind your view. I am seriously baffled how this line of reasoning flows.
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  886. Batteries will get very interesting IMHO, but wouldn't it be great if we could just get rid of batteries for EVs? Like if there was some kind of way to lay cheap induction matrices in roadways or along them, or just broadcast power like Tesla had envisioned. I mean if Nikolai was running Tesla, do you think they would be using batteries?
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  887. So in your mind the kind of guys who love to murder torture and dominate the towns folk at the drop of a hat, are just diverted coders?
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  888.  @johndair2116 I have more or less been playing devils advocate here. I remember seeing a video of that prof from GT in his lab explaining his SSB approach. It was impressive. So thanks for bringing my attention back to this (and his competition). They did great today, but so did most EV related instruments, so I am going to keep a watch on them. Tesla did great today 5.24%. So did XPEV 7.33% and NIO 8.46% and BYDDY 8.56% and my favoite for the day GGPI (Polestar) 11.52% I own them and I love EV! And strangely enough Tesla is still my favorite investment.
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  889. You got it right, you don't understand.
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  890. Doesn't matter at all because nobodies' mind has ever been changed by some comment on social media. There could be a million bot comments and it wouldn't matter at all, unless you wasted time reading or responding to them.
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  891. If you go by the videos: the Russian police treat the protestors better than the American police do their own protestors. Unless those protestors are brain dead right-wing nuts. Then they are treated like family.
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  892. Tesla is the only EV company in China that can make a profit building cars without state incentives.
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  893. Nobody needs an ev with a 600 mile range. The whole idea is delusional.
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  894. I would hate to have to rely on either Russian tech or Russian support. Like it or not Russia is finished, a shrinking population, rampant HIV and heroin addiction in addition to the highest percentage of alcoholics on earth. It will be unable to fill the shoes of the engineers that developed it's defense industry, not to mention the fact that a lot of Russian hardware just doesn't work in a war against an advanced opponent like China. Russia's time is past, China's time is now but only because of foreign investment and tech transfer. China will soon go the way of Russia but a little later, they have big population problems looming in the future. India's time is yet to come. Do you want to do it with a country whose citizens flee at any given opportunity, or one that people literally risk their lives to attempt to get in? This is India's chance to end up on the right side of the future. Believe it, Russia is not long for this world. India is an important friend for the USA. They should work to iron out the minor problems they have. One thing India should take into account is that it will not have the most advanced American military tech in the future if they buy Russian weapons now. They would do better to give up Russia and work with the USA to develop its own advanced defense industry.
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  895. Or maybe he is trying to insure the loyalty of the "tough people".
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  896.  @paddymaguire1703  Yeah, maybe, for sure that would have worked before they mass produce an AI controlled network of killer drones and robots designed by machine learning logarithms. Then they just sit in their posh command center/holistic retreats and exterminate the unless underlings.
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  897.  @michaelpayne9712  Glad you pointed that out. 25 to 40 USA 4% almost double Russia 25%. Quantities have a Quality all their own.
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  898.  @autobootpiloot  25% of 10 is not 4. It's 2.5. But you are on the right track. 25% of 100 is 25. 4% of a thousand is 40. So America is almost spending twice as much.
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  899. This report is so incorrect in so many ways that it is just funny. My portfolio has done so much better since I totally ignore CNBC, Bloomburg, and Yahoo. But when you have to sell ads, and you would love to get Tesla to pay the media vig like lesser Auto companies you just lie hoping that Tesla will eventually advertise like lesser companies, so they have some influence over these kind of twisted biased, pecuniarily motivated lies.
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  900. Keep associating a more open boarder policy with those opposing Trump and you will almost guarantee his reelection. It does not matter if those opposing Trump politically are not in favor of open boarders. As long as it appears that way in the minds of some 60k rust belt voters, Trump will be back in and you will be partially responsible for the misconceptions that allowed it. If you want to help these people then you should be supporting the forces in their own countries that oppose the criminal gangs that were exported from the US and have ruined life there. Remember: these gangs are the remnants of the "freedom fighters" that were trained in the US under Regan and supported monetarily by the illegal sale of weapons to Iran and the importation of crack cocaine to US ghettos. Now they ruin everyone's lives there. The solution is not to allow those that are in danger because of Reagan's evil acts, into our country. The solution is to finally bring the hammer down on the criminals and the US officials that were instrumental in creating a criminal take-over in Central America.
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  901.  newfiesnowball nl  So you believe that there is a direct correlation between the ablility to detect odors and the ability of a mask to stop droplets. Let's examine that statement: Some substances can be detected by humans as odors in the .009 ppb. Now there is no doubt that a single corona virus, with luck could make its way thourgh any filter that is much bigger than five onehundreths of a micron, being about that size itself. But a few crona viruses is not the problem, it is aerosolized droplets of sputem and other bodily fluids that contain millions or billions of the virus. When someone breaths into a proper mask, these droplets are largely arrested within the mask material. That is why masks are most helpful in preventing the rapid spread of the virus from incidental contact. And this is very important, while misleading statements like your's are quite the opposite. Not to mention the fact that masks have been proven to retard and prevent many infections by the variying levels of contagion around the world. Sweden is a prime example of this. No masks, no social distancing equals about twelve times the rate of infection as it's neighbors that did take such precautions.
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  902. @Raiderology You must have developed your historic outlook by reading comic books. You should get together with the Qanon people, you have a lot in common. Your mention of the Opium Wars is ridiculous in the context you have established. Nothing in British foreign policy is based on the opium wars. That is the equivalent of someone saying that Chinese foreign policy is based on the piling up of Muslim skulls outside of the walled cities of the Middle East by the Mongols. Just GD idiotic.
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  903. Yeah Einstein, comedians should never be the leaders of nations. And Zelensky is the proof of it. Oh wait a minute, he is a great and inspiring leader: as Stewart would be.
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  904. It was largely kids who stopped the war in Vietnam. Of course four decades after the fact McNamara confesses "We didn't really know what we were doing."
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  905. Totally wrong, the worst drug crisis in American history is the use and abuse of alcohol, which is far more harmful than opioids. The opioid crisis is caused by the laws that criminalize a person for treating their own pain.
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  906. I love how the media always fails to mention that the opioid epidemic started when the government made it near impossible for chronic pain sufferers to get meds from doctors.
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  907. Bernie for pres, Liz for sec of treasury, Tulsi for sec of defense, Jimmy Dore for vice pres (to make sure some right-wing bubba mental defective doesn't shoot Bernie.
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  908. The death and disaster you speak of is caused by the laws against opioids not the opioids. You are a dupe of propaganda. This whole subject is the babble of the insane puritanical conditioning of the populace by the psychopaths that are in control. These laws create a climate in which people turn to street drugs and the hell our laws hand to them. It is insane to think that prohibition works. It does not work and it has never worked. Even in countries with death penalties for use and sale of drugs, it does not work. Opioids are one of the most benign drugs you can use long term. Less harmful than common over the counter drugs that the fools who believe these laws take regularly. Switzerland solved their heroin problem by making it freely available to addicts. What happened? They self titrated and went back to work instead of being out on the street trying to come up with the money for dealers.  This whole problem is self-created. Perhaps we should return to the ultra insane times when doctors and loved ones would withhold pain meds from those in their care who were dying in agony, because they did not want them to become addicted in the final months of their lives. This used to happen all the time, not so long ago. I witnessed it happen to a beloved great aunt when I was a teenager. Anyone who supports this policy is an idiot and thinks that doing the same thing that doesn't work over and over again is a good idea. Why were opioids made illegal in the first place? Because the miners and other factory serfs in England began to prefer tinctures of opium as opposed to alcohol. With good reason. So of course the distillers demonized the use of same. While the facts are that opioids are far less harmful than alcohol or even than tylenol. If you don't know these facts, and I suspect you do not. You basically know nothing about what you have commented on. Which is par for the course on the net. If you really dislike drug dealers, both criminal and noncriminal, then you should be in favor of complete decriminalization of all molecules, and the sanction for anyone to grow any plant they want to and use it themselves, like any free adult should be able to do. Then a person could grow a little plot of poppies and treat their own pain.
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  909. Teslas improve after purchase, which goes a long way to overcoming the new model delusion.
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  910.  @Alex_1400  Not so. USA, and most of Europe has enough people who want to get in to more than make up for the coming population cliff. Russia has people who want to get out. Not many decades ago the USA and Russia's populations were equal. Now Russia is less than it was and USA is more then double what it was. So literally, as you say needlessly and incorrectly, literally, you have no idea what you are talking about.
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  911. Comment to copy editor, Please say relentless, when you mean relentless, not unrelenting.
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  912. Think of the stupidest way to go about doing things and you will understand US laws in regard to police.
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  913.  @katthudson9131  Thanks Katt. I really don't know the name of my icon. Though I am a Woodstock survivor age-wise, I still get a kick out of playing video games about once a week, and I was playing as the dark elves in Total War Warhammer 2 -- so I chose an illustration of a dark elf for my YouTube icon. Just silliness - no real metaphor or anything. Don't hold it against me, I am just a kid at heart -- like all of us who managed to stay alive for our lives.
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  914. So the new Cadillac ev that you can't order yet isn't going to be made in China? It even looks Chinese.
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  915.  @lievenyperman9363  On my screen it is located right beneath part 2, may be different for you.
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  916. So China did not invade Tibet. . . in your opinion.
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  917.  @JDESP  That's about your only "go to" in the face of facts einstein.
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  918. The solution to all your pessimism is accelerated growth into the exploitation of extra-planetary resources. The golden future of mankind is among the planets and stars not in some retrograde degeneration. If you have any doubts about this, get a handle on what SpaceX is actually doing about it, at a rate that no one had previously considered possible.
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  919. Eventually all cars and traffic signals will be networked. This will take care of a lot of the problems with FSD.
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  920.  @clarityofmind7317  We won't be able to vote for Bernie, mainly because Bernie did not stand up against the corruption that was directed against him.
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  921. The aerodynamic design of Tesla cars was done by SpaceX engineers.
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  922. The treasonous enablers must be flogged and banished from this nation, that they attempted to destroy, and this land and it's people that they have spit upon.
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  923. So a Christian Fundamentalist walks into a mosque in Pakistan. Grabs an old woman who is praying and cuts her head off. The nation of Pakistan's Islamic populace vows to keep religious choice as an ideal and no Christians living in the Islamic Republic of Iran are persecuted or harassed because of it. That would happen right? Or maybe every openly Christian man woman and child would be dragged into the street and murdered by insane mobs, whose minds have been corrupted by an insane religion?
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  924. It has been said that if a person makes effusive hand gestures, it is because his words are controlling what he says (in other words his "thought process" is totally automatic). It has also been said by the same sage, the more hand gestures: the less trustworthy. These are factors I do not expect you will like hearing, and if you do not like it, you will not believe it. I bet you don't like that one either, and will not believe it. Caught between two mirrors who are both pretending to be you -- aye? -- and are pretty much getting away with it. Of course no body knows more than the pundits who have achieved popular acclaim, so please disregard the preceding. 😊
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  925. Just give me general AI and a few tesla bots and I will have endless projects for them. So much for your stupid question. They will transform the environment in all directions to be more compatible for humans because that what we want.
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  926. Next there will be a national tragedy, which Trump (Robert Mercer's front man) will use to crush opposition. Same old tricks, time after time, and the fools never catch on, because they are antiintellectual and only the intellectuals can figure out the con. The conman and his dupes in the service of the one percent, who would love a faschist state were the military, the defense industry, other major industries, are merged under a tyrant who appeals to the dupes who are sick of things changing in a way they don't like or understand. The campaign slogan of the Nazi party on their road to power was "Germany First."
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  927. You should refer to it as the Republocrats, because were it counts, there is no difference. The banksters own both parties.
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  928. And MG, and Polestar, etc.
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  929. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  930. Considering you view that PZ actually reads these comments, it is not surprising that you fail to realize nobody cares if you are leaving.
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  931. A few facts mixed with a deluge of lies. Do your own fact checking on this because it is full of disinformation.
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  932.  @bestproto5117  Nope: CNBC is worst, followed by Bloomberg.
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  933. The Stanford Prisoner Experiment should tell us everything we need to know about giving people authority and uniforms and weapons and telling them to enforce order. Even when they know it's an act they become extremely abusive.
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  934.  @mirandahotspring4019  No one, I was just bored. . . . Three dots without any spaces is not an ellipsis, and it is proper grammar to end a thought with a period. Or perhaps you did use a period and forgot not only the spaces in your poor excuse for an ellipsis, but decided to just use two dots because you were tired. Perhaps you should not correct the grammar of others? Who cares? . . . Anyone who is even semi-literate.
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  935.  @willywonka4340  Maybe you should sign Trump's "bomb Mexico" petition?:face-fuchsia-tongue-out:
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  936. The problem there is that many Trump supporters only remember that Biden invited the migrants to swarm the border. Which I kinda think he did. Hope I am wrong about that.
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  937. Here's a hint: nobody cares.
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  938.  @johnfranklin6394  That is a shame, the models up to and including 03, had a 9k redline. Which I love, but I like high rpm while most like high torque. It was the highest output per ci of any engine until Ferrari came out with the Italia. The Miata is far better for most people, especially since unlike the Honda, it uses regular gas and a broken timing chain/belt, doe not destroy the engine. There are a small, but not nonexistent number of Tesla models S that were produced in 96' - 97' that don't have a lot of miles on them, are in pretty good condition, and . . . wait for it: have over 90% battery life left, are still under an eight year unlimited mile warranty, and have fully transferable unlimited lifetime free supercharging! Of course whether or any particular car would be a raging deal depends entirely on price and condition, but on my web browsing yesterday I came across one that has 32k on the clock and was priced at 35k. If I was in the market for a sedan I would definitely check those kinds of offerings out. Saw it on Craigslist somewhere in PA. using searchtempest for Craigslist (it checks everywhere and gives results by state and city)
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  939.  @heroinboblivesagain5478  Oh, I agree with that statement entirely.
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  940. About to listen to this talk, from the title my thoughts are that it may well seem that the CIA has a history of failure because it is only the failures that come into public awareness.
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  941. OMG Your statement is quite revealing.
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  942. You could substitute "the human race" for America in you statement and it would be just as true if not more so. However history proves that the only lasting peace on any large scale only takes place when there is a hedgemon that is overwhelming in its power. You can thank "America" for the prevailing large scale peace since WW2. But I get the feeling you will not see it this way because it does not fit your narrative.
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  943.  @derivative4358  Interesting thought. So then googling would be like praying about something. I guess there is a good percentage of humanity for whom that analogy would work. The kind of people who pray about things like what team will win some sporting event, or that their friend's cancer will spontaneously remiss. On the other hand there are also a great many people for whom religion is more analogous to a total cessation of anything and everything that could either be entered in a Google search or give one cause or motivation to even consider such an action. Like those who consider the pursuit of enhanced consciousness, or enlightenment, or a new form of intelligence to be the aim of such intentions, and the various often quite hilarious acts they inspire in people. Hopefully some amalgam of this intention will come to have increasing effect in the very "further perfection of mankind" that was originally mentioned. Because quite clearly: the kind of training and expertise that is now required to become even a minor factor in determining the course of humanity, though it may be advanced and dominate in a particular field, such as politics or fund management, or even physics, is clearly inadequate as regards the ability to organize and inspire the rapid advancement of welfare and technological prowess that humanity should now be experiencing.
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  944.  @DanA-nl5uo  You could just as well tie it to countries that have threatened to revolt against the petro-dollar. Every one of them has had severe civil unrest or been attacked.
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  945. There are no indigenous people in the Americas, nor in Europe, Asia, or even Australia. All humans found on these continents are an invasive species from Africa. What you refer to as indigenous peoples are merely technologically unsophisticated invaders. Your continual failure to admit the truth regarding human populations is just more spin. And your news, though better than the cable channels, is saturated with spin, and impoverished as far as hard facts about such matters are concerned.
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  946. Are you, for being such an idiot?
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  947.  @metalbean813  Is that even legal? As far as I know, once you put your garbage out to be collected it is no longer your property.
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  948.  @metalbean813  Oh, I believe it happened, I also believe the police acted like fools with no legal rationalization.
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  949. The trillions of beneficial microbs need plants. The hundreds of harmful ones love your steak diet. And it contributes all those lovely endogenous advance glication end products to your rapidly aging metabolism.
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  950. "Long walks in large groups" . . . cute historic allusion. Doesn't seem like that could even happen now. But within my lifetime the Chinese had famines so bad that they ate the bark off trees. Maybe long drives in caravans of EVs?
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  951. These ideas about animal ag are nonsense. It is the loss of forests that were cleared for pasturage that is the problem, not how herds move around on natural grasslands. This man is a conman, but like the devil he mixes truths with this nonsense. He is not worthy to be on this channel, it lends undeserved legitimacy to his many partisan and incorrect views.
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  952. The use of the term "indigenous people" to refer to less technologically advanced humans is rhetorical sophistry. There are no longer any indigenous people on earth anywhere. Like the snakehead fish and kudzu, all humans are invasive species no matter where they are found. Even the use of the term "native" is misleading. The idealistic fantasy of people being in harmony with the environment is nonsense. Everywhere humans migrated to, there was a wildfire of extinctions that accompanied them. Their ability to exploit the environment was only limited by their capability to do so, not by some spiritual harmony to be found in the hollywood fantasies that have populated the flaccid neurons of most humans.
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  953. Well bless his little heart. Wonder what Laura Croft thinks of this? Judging from what could happen, she may want to have a prophylactic lobotomy. Poor child.
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  954. He probably works for an OEM or a company that supplies them with parts.
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  955.  @sir.cumference8998  So buy a Tesla.
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  956.  @praero551  I agree. As a dirt bike nut in my youth -- I know unsprung weight is the devil. But none the less several EV are using the motor in wheel approach. There is even a company that makes motors just for that purpose. Off the top of my head I think Aptera uses them. But there are several. I thought it was a stupid idea, and was hoping the rumor about the cyber truck is wrong because I would have to cancel my order if it isn't.
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  957.  @robertweekley5926  I know, and I hope that is the case.
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  958.  @dixonhill1108  Depends on the person. There can be a huge difference between chronological age and biological age. For those who keep active and take care of themselves, and abjure what is commonly considered to be edible by most sheeple: with age comes, not a decline in cognitive ability, but wisdom. Also physical decline itself takes place at such varied rates that your childish grouping of people by chronological age is out of touch with reality, and just the lazy acceptance of stereotypes as truths. Personally I am in my seventies, and not only more intelligent than when I was in my forties, but I can still keep it up all night like I could when I was a teenager. I expect to continue improving both my physical, emotional, and mental capabilities well into my nineties and possibly beyond. So I hope you realize you are speaking not only for yourself, but about yourself.
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  959. Been looking for another Roll to roll. Too bad. But seriously just considering the window dressing: what's wrong with this picture? The problem is, if you don't know, you can't know, and there is no telling you.
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  960. I thought most gun related deaths were caused by the police.
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  961.  @queenmommie8295  Well you are certainly entitled to your opinion. Where I grew up it was all white people who were jailed for drugs, mostly poor white kids, because there were no people of other color. By the way, there are actually no indigenous human beings anywhere on earth anymore. We are all an invasive species out of Africa, and even in the valleys where humans actually were an indigenous species, the people who now live there came from elsewhere. Like it or not those are the facts. By the way, I love your name Queen mommie.
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  962.  @darkmadder9897  The precursors for Fentanyl come from China.
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  963. He was converted.
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  964.  @CaptainDeston  You believe too much anti American propaganda,
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  965. ​ @tibsyy895  Old tropes. The Teslas coming out of Germany will offer the highest precision of any mass produced car on earth. If you actually followed the owners who talk about their own Teslas, you would know that you are the victim of the media FUD, union hit jobs, and the unimaginable hate and resistance of traditional OEMs and especially dealerships that will lie and build up any minor negative about Tesla to attempt to sabotage a superior product in the weak minded. You basically have no real idea what you are talking about. Tesla is a generation of engineering beyond any other EV manufacturer, and that is a fact. Tesla does not need to advertise to sell every car they make at a profit beyond all other major OEMs. Their customers sell them for them. Tesla customers frequently say that their Tesla is their absolute favorite possession, and that they are continually thrilled by the fact that it is often improved OTA on a weekly basis. People like you have been predicting the fall of Tesla since the beginning. The facts on the ground could not be more out of line with the FUD you have picked up from the media. Tesla does not give free cars to auto magazine staff, or all expense paid junkets to visit a resort and see the new, fill in the blank, which are special magazine cars specially built by hand to get reviews. This is knowm -- child. Or maybe you depend on the financial or auto press or broadcasters whose sole raison d'etre is to sell advertising space or time. And Tesla will not pay the hundreds of millions that they get from all other OEMs. You figure it out. If your are capable.
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  966. Through out the ages, Poland had guarded the west, and been the first to drag freedom from the depths of soviet despair.
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  967. I think the idea that advanced chips could be kept out of Russian hands is a faulty conjecture.
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  968. I personally kept finding Peterson''s gestures inauthentic and strange.  I was wondering just what it was he was trying to convey with these strange large gestures where he was holding both his hands semi-outstreched in front of his chest and flicking his fingers about rapidly as if trying to simultaneously keep a cloud of confetti or foil pieces in the air: a sort of kitten-like gesture. Finally I realized that this was how he expressed the fact that he was subconsciously aware that he was simply showing off that he could babble so eloquently. At one point he almost -- almost, claimed that the archetypes underlying religion were energetic patterns projected onto consciousness by the physical structure and metabolic processes of the reticuliar activating system. Almost, but he devolved into camouflaged apologetics and more strange dramatic gestures. Sometimes it almost looks like he is employing the type of affectatious and contrived passes that a stage magician or hypnotist would employ.
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  969.  @robbrown4621  This is absolutely incorrect. The combined military budgets of Russia and China do not equal half of the military budget of the USA, let alone America.. It is so easy to find out the facts about such an issue what the hell is your excuse for spreading lies? Oh, you probably live in China where access to information is totally controlled.
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  970.  Ander Aborin  Your only oppressor is your own stupidity, which is way you have to look outside of yourself to find an "oppressor".
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  971. All the people who fought the British in the American Revolution where considered liberals at the time. The Tories who supported a king were the conservatives. Face it, conservatives conserve nothing, not the environment, not our best institutions, nothing, they are either wealthy and don't want to pay taxes or just stupid and fall for the continual uninterrupted lies of the cooperate media.
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  972.  @buttertoast1146  With you it's like communicating with a child. Go back to grade school and take a course in values clarification.
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  973.  @buttertoast1146  Not so David you see son, there are lots of people who became millionaires just because their parents died -- like the conman who is Mercer's puppet in the white house. No, son, you have to judge a man's value on his life long actions.
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  974.  @brianoden1798  I'm surprised you watch that channel. Nothing but whining. You probably watch it because you find liberal bitching entertaining. I find it cacophonous.
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  975. The lads at Tesla are supposed to be so smart, how could they not known that this would happen?
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  976. Sorry but evolution is not something that says anything. Evolution as understood by science today only deals with living things. The theory of evolution does not say anything about how life originated only how it evolved through time.
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  977. Both of these companies he talks about are private, no stock anywhere, and basically irrelevant to present investment.
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  978.  @chrisahearn789  American forces have not been idle. They fight in Syria, and the dislocated areas of Iraq, soon if not now in Yemen and in several African countries as advisors. According to Smithsonian American forces are currently actively combating terrorism in over eighty countries -- about forty percent of the world. Not what I would call idle.
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  979.  @u2beuser714  Kind of a false equivalency, but then all such comparisons are. Iraq had "experience" in not melting the barrels of their machine guns during human wave attacks in which the front lines wore little glow in the dark keys to heaven around their necks. The Russians were fighting small insurgencies, as apposed to an organized, intelligent, opposition. The Ukrainians have experience, and more important: forces that firmly believe in their cause against Russian who largely are inexperienced being sent to die by the "experienced" regulars, whose experience largely consist of how not to die, and how to steal from the state. But a great way to empty their prisons.
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  980. Can you spell transparent? More shameless spin to insult the intelligence (or lack thereof) of their viewers.
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  981. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  982. Bernie shot himself in the foot with his stance that convicted terrorists should be able to vote while imprisoned. Expect to see massive attack ads quoting this. Personally I agree with him because it hardly matters. If three million votes don't matter why would a few dozen or so matter? But the Trump cultists will not see it that way.
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  983. Concerning nuclear blackmail of Ukraine with the threat and use of tactical nukes: Ukraine is not totally without nuclear alternatives of its own: a Russian tactical nuke strike could be countered by a series of dirty bombs exploded over western Russia to create a buffer contaminated zone. That would be crazy, but crazy is as crazy does.
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  984. I wonder what the relative ratio of christians and atheists in prison for violent crimes is. Hint, the atheist are better educated, and less violent, and less sure that the fictional teaching stories they were taught in grade school are things that actually happened. Did you know that George Washington could not tell a lie, and threw a silver dollar across the Potomac river? Also did you know that when Jesus was crucified the sun stood still in the sky and the dead emerged from their graves to walk the streets? I know there is no historical account of such events, even though it took place at the height of the Roman empire when fastidious accounts were made of even mundane events. But you know, it was written in the gospels about a hundred years after the event, by the Greeks who wrote them, so it must have happened. I bet you did not even know that the gospels were not written by the disciples at all, and the first one was recorded 60 years after the event in another country by people who were not even in the same continent. Must be literally true then aye?
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  985. BYD, Xpeng, Nvidia, REMX , now you know of those other companies, or etfs as the case may be. But Tesla is the best one IMHO.
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  986.  @jurycould4275  It didn't. People who know little of the details of EVs think that a VW or others you mentioned are the equal of a Tesla. Not even close. The heaven is in the details. Mercedes is ten years behind despite their criminal mind-set, that is willing to cheat and mislead the public any time it is in their monetary interest.
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  987. I appreciate your humor but suggest giving an irony alert after such statements for the sake of the irony impaired.
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  988. The question is, will Trump still be able to scam a pardon for himself? I sure hope not.
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  989.  @chuckkottke  Hopefully Pence will not live up to his Christian Creed and will refuse to be used again.
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  990. Just what resources does the USA lack?
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  991. It should have been build somewhere in Europe with less corruption and inane outdated rules. They would have been supplying Eruope with the best EVs in the world, even better than the Chinese and American cars of the same model, for 10 months already, would have cut the wait time for buyers and made the gas prices lower in the face of Russian aggression,
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  992. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  993. Count down for the power elite's co-opting of new starry-eyed congresspersons -- or has it already happened?
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  994. Here's a thought, if you want something that can preform like a donkey, use a donkey. The enemy would hear these things miles away.
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  995. Why is this so difficult for the Luddites to wrap their heads around? Porsche has been doing the same thing for decades. Only they pretend that the gradual upgrades are new models.
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  996. If you ever had a serious talk with one of the Plymouth Brethren you wouldn't say that. I hear they still burn witches in their minds.
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  997. IF you believe the corporate news or the news on the other side. Both are full of it.
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  998. The fabric of humanity in general, which this doc and your statement pointedly ignores.
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  999.  @h0gheadS  When someone purports to be reporting the news, yet continually repurposes the language to support a biased spin in their narrative, they do not deserve to be left alone. Democracy Now is a fine news source as long as you are not taken in by their Orwellian manipulation of the language, and their steadfast dismissal of objectivity on certain issues.
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  1000. Never gonna happen.
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  1001.  @ebone9332  Trump's demented ways of making America great for the banksters at Goldman Sachs.
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  1002.  @joeking433  Tesla has invested more in new factories in the USA than GM and Ford combined.
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  1003.  @timower5850  Who said it wouldn't? Though if NASA liscensed it, it could go a long way in paying their bills. I bet the Chinese will actually manufacture this tech as soon as if not before US companies, because we love their spies so much.
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  1004. Pardon Nazi says. "No pardon for you! Next!"
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  1005. Inflation is only 10% in Trump land, in the USA it is 2.9%.
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  1006.  @djprojectus  You are wrong about everything you wrote. Munro is just a guy who is able to perceive superior engineering and appreciates it. He gets nothing from Tesla, they do not even lend free magazine cars like BMW and GM.
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  1007. I know what you mean, but history indicates that this is the norm. The power elite, no matter of which stripe have only one goal, to hang onto and if possible increase their power. All else is window dressing.
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  1008. I hope that some of the people who will favor democratic candidates realize that the illegal immigrant issue is a loser for the democrats. The people whose votes matter the most. The same 70,000 rust belt independents look at it like this: You enter the country illegally, you don't belong here. Simple as that. No matter what you think or feel, that is not what the voters who matter most think and feel. Put your sympathies aside until we win. Then with any luck Bernie will be the president and will have massive grass roots support to put the power elite back in their thieving place.
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  1009. The first delivery is the event that really counts. Until then, it is all just test runs.
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  1010. I can imagine an alternative that is outside of the usual: capitalism, communism, socialism, anarchism ruts. OK well anarchism may not be a rut, and in a sense it is almost as if an underlying subtle substrate of anarchism may be both present and necessary for the vitality of the other isms, but it seems to me that a purely anarchist state, or region, if you prefer, would be at the mercy of nations that are otherwise organized. First of all, I mention in the spirit of full disclosure that I find government and it's mechanics boring, and somehow grey and depressing, and consider the people who have a desire to acquire temporal power over the physical existence of others as sick, deeply self-deluded individuals. I think that in general our leaders, in whatever flavor basically suck ass when it comes to administering a government. We are told that governments are the most dangerous entities on earth, not to other governments or other peoples, but to their own people. But of course it is not governments, no matter the formal codification of society in the form of laws and regulations, but the people who enact same, supposedly for the benefit of society, but more realistically in the service of their own organically pragmatic predilections, whether apparent as in the case of libertarians, and various utilitarian movements, or subtle and convoluted and perhaps even unconscious as on the part of various idealists, and utopians. Anyway, enough of this and to the point. I suggest a governing system in which the body of government employees, whether a janitor or the chief executive, is chosen by testing and continual performance review. Sort of a Techno-Neo Confucianism where anyone who is able to score higher on a series of tests that are generated by machine learning logarithms to optimize a governing system that is entirely relative to an established constitution or declaration of stated national goals, such as the optimal health wealth and well-being of all citizens or the earliest possible establishment of an extra-planetary colony that is self-sustaining, or some other orientation or constellation of orientations that is established by and modified by the adult populace with varying degrees of voting powers, which degree would also be determined by a test designed to test the intelligence, knowledge and correlation to reality of their internal conceptions. They would be voting directly only for the goals and general prime directives of the nation and not the leaders or manner in which these goals are pursued except in so far as they have established restrictions on such pursuits, such as environmental regulations and standards of dignity and freedom regarding all individuals. New and future technology will allow earthlings to establish a society that is superior to any that humans themselves are capable of designing the social and physical dynamics and details of. Thusly the human race will expand into the limitless resources of the solar system and beyond, to evolve in concert with our technology to a destiny which is presently beyond the capacity of even the most creative futurist to imagine. In such a system, the tests for positions of higher responsibility would be complex and not limited to written exams, but would include virtual reality scenarios, real world assessment and performance review, as well as extreme depth of psychological testing. I might add that in regard to such "higher" positions it may well be determined and required that it would be necessary for them to experience a mental state of awareness that is beyond the consensus thought-centric and quite mechanical mental processes of humanity, whether by psychedelic agents or some other mode of transcendence. In addendum: democracies do work, I should say "can work", this is illustrated by the fact that if a problem is too complex, such as guessing the number of jellybeans in a huge urn. If enough people guess, say tens of thousands, the median of all the guesses is always more accurate than any single guess. Ok theoretically a single guess can be just as, or more accurate than the median of all guesses, but not very friggen often and it is just luck. Now if you have some agency that obscures the urn or finds a means of exaggerating certain qualities or merely using persuasion to misrepresent the number of jelly beans this will obviously fuck things up. This is analogous to the present state of the world with regard to the disinformation and propaganda generated by all manner of sources like Fox News, or any news outside of peer reviewed journals and even then. . . . So of course in this society, as it should be in ours, the penalty for knowingly reporting inaccurate information as fact would be death. No excuses.
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  1011. Native only means you were born there. Like native New Yorker. No thousand year history or cultural distinction necessary einsteins. The real language manipulation by the woke puddin' heads is the use of the word "indigenous"to refer to the native descendants of the invasive species of humans,such as in the case of the Asians who migrated into the Americas. Their are actually no indigenous humans anywhere on earth. Even the small population of people living in the original lands where man is assumed to have originated are not indigenous, in other words their is no uninterrupted continuum from the original humans who originated in the location, to those that now inhabit the area. In the the woke narrative only the descendants of the invasive species of homo sapiens that populated an area before other more technologically advanced groups supplanted them are actually indigenous while in fact they were merely the descendants of migrants who could not compete with the newer more advanced migrants. The same thing happened all over the world continuously over the course of human history, those with an advantage over the native inhabitants, supplanted, enfolded, or destroyed the more archaic groups. The original human populations of Europe were themselves displaced by other more technologically and/or militarily viable groups, in an ongoing series of displacements that continue even today. Humans always pressed any advantage to take what they wanted or needed to enhance the survival potential of their group. This has always included rationalized narratives to justify their destruction of native cultures. The narrative used by the present migrants into western culture is just another such device crafted by those whom believe that said migration will benefit themselves: to enhance their survival potential even if that perception is only political or in error.
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  1012. My life experience contradicts this silly statement.
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  1013.  @wavelength7503  You think that the first nations were utopias -- lol. They loved to torture members of warring tribes to death as public entertainment. Hows that for corruption? If you think that the first nations were the enlightened environmentalists that they now hold themselves forth as, you are only missing all of preColumbian history. And any notion of the reality of human nature.
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  1014. Elon said the Koreans make good EVs, a few years ago.
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  1015. Anybody could have told them that (and did) more than a hundred years ago -- in modern times. But it goes back, way back, -- and incorporates various historic fantasies and intolerant narratives.
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  1016. That would be people who murder corn flakes -- er what?
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  1017. We cannot let Russia get away with all this murder. Putin must pay with his life. And all the sycophants around him. Their lives are not equal to one of the children they have crushed in their beds.
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  1018.  @hishamg  And hydrogen is far far less efficient overall. It adds complexity too, which is just stupid for cars, but may be a good thing for mass energy storage.
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  1019. While "observing super novas in the solar system", you better plan to be in a different solar system.
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  1020. There are hundreds of real reasons to not eat meat at all, despite your uninformed thoughts on the subject. There is not one good reason to eat meat. Not one. The is no real debate on this issue outside of "research" funded by the meat, dairy, and egg industry and the "authorities" they underwrite. Now you see how much they really care about your health. Meat kills. Look at the fat slobs of Americans that eat at fast food everyday. They die young and unhealthy. Meat is poison. If you wash a chicken in your kitchen, you will find chicken fecal bacteria in every room in your house. This is fact. Even if you have no sympathy for the animals raised all their lives in conditions that are torturous wake up. You desire meat because it is physically addictive like heroin. This is a fact. You intestines are colonized by bacteria that destroy your health. Wake up and stop being a mind washed uninformed thrall of the meat industry. Why is it a criminal offense to show film and videos taken inside of factory farm operations? If you eat meat you are on the wrong side of history and human conscious evolution and ignore facts because you really don't care about being evil when a little bit of your low level satisfaction is at stake.
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  1021. Or maybe people stupid enough to vote for someone just because they were in office with a man who is half black are at fault. Talk about prejudice. . . .
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  1022. Agree one thousand percent. Just superstitious crap that people are brainwashed into when they are young.
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  1023. I drive through the hard coal region of PA twice a week and I assure you they are stripping the hills as fast as they ever were. Filthy coal trucks on the road continually. They may not be burning as much here but they are still mining as much as ever. Strip operations that had been dormant for decades are hauling coal again in the last few years -- especially since the invasion of Ukraine.
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  1024. Concerning aerial surveillance: It is certain that EVERY person who attended a demonstration's identity is known by the NSA and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies. Also know is where they where before they attended the protest and possibly where they were before that, and where they went after the protest, for as long as they want to know about you, right up to present. It's not magic, it's not rocket science, it is cheap and easy to do, because of current computer tech. Here is how it's done: There is a plane, or drone in the air. It is recording the entire city at once with scopes capable of thermal imaging that is controlled by apps that automatically label every heat signature that it sees. So every living thing is labeled. This brilliant program will then continue to keep all the thousands or tens of thousands of labels associated with it's appropriate heat signature. By rewinding to the part of the recording done before the protest it can then usually associated each individual heat signature with an exact address. Same thing going forward in time, it can follow each label to where ever it goes after the demonstration. Of course this is all tied in with cctv and facial recognition apps that automatically correlate data. This information is kept forever, and now, thanks to Bernie Sanders they can legally have inference engines sort though all your internet and digital communications and if you post anything like I did here. You are watched, and possibly set-up if you seem to actually merit the trouble, or if they need a fall-guy, or are looking for likely candidates for entrapment to further their personal careers.
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  1025. Because Israel.
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  1026.  @dsmith4140  Go back to school and stop embarrassing yourself. Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal') is a philosophical, social, political, economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state. Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/) is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, as well as strong regimentation of society and of the economy.
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  1027. Been done so many times. Solving the Money Problem does it best, check out his old videos to find them.
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  1028. @Juan Carrero Over 30,000 documented lies told to the public in four years. Guess which president from which party has that record in the USA? Face it Juan the only hope for the USA to be delivered out of the hands of a pack of bought and lying professional thieves is for a third party to win, like Teddy did with the Bull Moose Party.
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  1029. I lived in California for thirty years then had to help out my family back east. It was actually less expensive for me to live in Santa Cruz than in a small town in PA. The price of real estate and rent is very high in CA but the cost of food especially organic food is much much less, and the fact that you don't need a/c or heat in much of the coastal areas more than makes up for it. But in general there were just as many jerks there as here, just of a different political tint. Despite this the population was far better educated and more intelligent than most other states I have lived in.
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  1030.  @petesmitt  I bet you only think your car comes from Japan. It is probably made in America.
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  1031.  @garedmorort  The point may be the same, . . . if you disregard what you wrote, and the obvious difference between that and reality.
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  1032. Bernie is the most popular politician in the world, and the corporate media knows it. But he threatens the agenda of their owners.
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  1033. What's the coefficient of drag? That's where most of the energy is used up in moving the average auto. Below fifty mph or so, a blunt design makes some sense, but if you want to move far and fast you need something slippery or you will just pay and pay to push air out of the way needlessly.
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  1034. Here comes Stark Industries!
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  1035. The YouTube logarithms are an enigma. Generally Peter is kind of bock happy. The AI is inscrutable in block applications, and there are even ghost blocks where your comment will be invisible to evey one but you. Then there are the ones that show up in you comment history and no where else. Also the person you reply to can block your comments. The thing that may work is to start another YouTube account. Which is quite easy and try again. Then you can tell if it is Peter who has blocked you. If you care enough. I don't. He blocked me a long time ago for being too nasty to imbeciles, I cannot make original posts, but sometimes can reply to a comment.
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  1036. Appreciate the info bro, I can't wait for the Tesla model 2 roadster special McMurty fan car edition. I want two.
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  1037. Yep, but it's not just Republicans, in politics as well as social interactions of a less structured type, hypocrisy makes the world go round: and you thought it was love -- so cute. Though I gotta admit, love, can make the world stop spinning. But OK, I gotta admit, outside of neo-nazi brutes and Qanon Trump cultist, republicans are the worst. But it sure seems to be working for them politically, no majorities anywhere except for the courts and regions where the maps of covid deaths, church attendance, gun ownership, low rates of higher education, all look the same, and they still maintain most of the real power. Follow the money honey, corruption and hypocrisy have no political allegiance.
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  1038.  @steverobbins4872 Firstly it didn't. It collected the data from the cars, not the drivers, unless the driver purposely tagged an incident for review. There is no effective difference between modifying a program that drives a car and one that preforms a repetitious action in a factory, except in the factory it is so much simpler and the results are readily observable by less fuzzy metrics. And in such an instance the programing of only a few or even just one robot would need to be modified and not all of them. The feedback would be continuous, faster than you can imagine, and based on empirical metrics, like production speed in that cell. etc.
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  1039. Waymo is not even in the same ballpark as TEsla FSD. It is a limiting, limited system.
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  1040.  @princekyros  The geographies (especially climatic features) are not even remotely identical, nevertheless, the main difference is due to natural selection and the cultures adaptation to geography and the influences of neighboring cultures. And of course while those in Switzerland out-grew the insane behaviors (such as slowly roasting those of different religious opinions in Switzerland) that resulted from believing religious metaphors and iron age teaching stories to be actual facts, those in Afghanistan never established an enlightened culture, mostly due to the prevalence of stupidity.
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  1041. Stupid comment of the day award -- Congrats.
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  1042. You got it. Not to mention that coal miners should get a job that doesn't poison everything it touches. Coal kills everything it touches.
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  1043.  @singed8853  You obviously do not understand the exponential nature of their AI driven FSD program.
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  1044.  acephalicatv  Yeh I know, I just like to tell people we don't live in a democracy, because they are always complaining about how undemocratic our cryptofascist kleptocracy is.
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  1045.  thegreen iguana  lol
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  1046. "Qualified Immunity" is what happens when the power-elite do not want enforcement to hesitate to commit crimes against the populace, or to consult any analogy of conscience before projecting their own bigotry.
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  1047. Because he is devoted to the continuation of human consciousness in an other wise dim universe and your comment proves how dim it is.
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  1048. I agree. I personally kept finding Peterson''s gestures inauthentic and strange. I was wondering just what it was he was trying to convey with these strange large gestures where he was holding both his hands semi-outstreched in front of his chest and flicking his fingers about rapidly as if trying to simultaneously keep a cloud of confetti or foil pieces in the air: a sort of kitten-like gesture. Finally I realized that this was how he expressed the fact that he was subconsciously aware that he was simply showing off that he could babble so eloquently. At one point he almost -- almost, claimed that the archetypes underlying religion were energetic patterns projected onto consciousness by the physical structure and metabolic processes of the reticuliar activating system. Almost, but he devolved into camouflaged apologetics and more strange dramatic gestures. Sometimes it almost looks like he is employing the type of affectatious and contrived passes that a stage magician or hypnotist would employ.
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  1049.  @jamsbean4383  Maybe if it is AI controlled and only orients itself with a camera, like Tesla's FSD software, it would not need a "signal" -- other than that, if it uses GPS, or radar, or lidar, or any other system that is either active or needs to recieve data (a "signal") that is a vector for hacking. Beside the EMP attack on Saddam's media network, there have been only tests of non-nuclear EMP weapons since the days when the nuclear EMPs were developed and tested successfully. Speaking of the non nuclear EMP, Air Force Research Laboratory commander Maj. Gen. Tom Masiello says CHAMP is "an operational system already in our tactical air force."
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  1050. Seek therapy.
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  1051.  @middleagedbaldguy6774  Maybe it never occurred to you, but you do not want the POTUS to be capable of saying any dumb crap.
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  1052. How do you know that the universe is expanding rather than everything in it shrinking because it is accelerating into a hidden dimension of anti-spacetime?
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  1053.  @sabaymusicofficial673  What did you send? Weapons? training? intelligence? What form did your support take? My guess is nothing but words.
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  1054.  @msmrreckoning  Thank you for sharing your delusions. Here is the "enlightenment" test. Are you talking, or thinking? Or in your case writing, or reading? If so you are as far from being enlightened as a Qanon believer, which is to say, as far away as you can possibly be.
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  1055. Speaking truth is easy. Getting the power elite to stop moving in the opposite direction is hard, because being evil without knowing it has worked out so good for them.
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  1056. Unfortunately many of the Republican candidates in PA are caricatures of actual thinking humans this Nov.
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  1057. I'm in. And humanity finally has the courage and security to reach forth once again to grasp their golden destiny among the stars and eternity.
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  1058.  @lauderdale77  Very graphic images you give here. More people are killed with hammers than rifles. More people are killed with fists than rifles. Most firearms used in crimes are handguns. Most people killed by firearms have committed suicide. How about the tens of thousands of children's bodies ripped apart by automobile accidents. Should we ban autos or ask you to suck off your car exhaust because you own one? The headlines are huge, the news is captious. And the truth is that if some nut decides to kill innocent people he will find a way, either by running a truck into a crowd or poisoning a reservoir or just tossing a lite cig out the car window in California. The second amendment is there to protect the populace from the government. But it is the dramatic headlines that capture the minds of the nation, while we spend billions to protect ourselves at airports, none of the systems has ever passed a test were firearms or bombs were smuggled onto a plane as a test. People are afraid of the wrong things. The hot fudge sundae is more dangerous to Americans than terrorists in reality, because there is a far greater chance that the average American will die because of their shitty diet then a terrorist bomb or some nut with an AK.
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  1059. One last thing: the radical right is extremely well armed, the left is not. The government will never be able to disarm the radical right wingers. They have stashes of weapons that would give you nightmares. They conduct massive combat training, I have witnessed this myself while driving through southern Georgia, most enlisted men in the military share their politics. If it comes right down to it, you better have a firearm to defend yourself and a ballistic vest that can withstand multiple hits form armor piercing bullets, because "history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes". Of course the poetic justice would be that you wouldn't be able to get those items and are just crushed by the bubas.
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  1060. The future of Tesla energy storage is surely dependent on Tesla's future development of its own battery manufacturing capability, otherwise how could it hope to compete in this area, with the companies that it buys its batteries from?
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  1061.  @MatthewBayard  Maybe he bought stock because the good things he is saying about BYD are true.
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  1062. The Ukranians need one thing, but they also need the 155 howitzers to be able to use it. The self-propelled 155 given by Sweden and Germany should be able to use it now, the 777 without the capability to use rocket assisted guided munitions is a F up of the first order. This is what they need: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1156_Precision_Guidance_Kit But they need to be able to use it -- duh. . .
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  1063. You have obviously never toured California. It holds vast wilderness areas.
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  1064. No he said two months and one hour late. lol
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  1065.  @FacitOmniaVoluntas.  Not only that. The StugnaP uses thermal imaging. In September 2018, it became known that Ukraine has received more than 100 Aselsan Eye-Lr S thermal imagers, whichwere installed on Stugna-P installations. So basically if the image show a different shade for the tank than it does for the background -- it is occupied, or they left the engine running or the coffee maker on.
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  1066.  @johninphx9360  . . . your irony precedes you. Nevertheless: I have determined that there is only one person who is not a sellout in this cosmos, and it is you John. Only you.
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  1067. That is exactly what is and has been happening with US coal.
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  1068. Always good to hear Naomi's views. Nice to see someone who is capable of seeing beyond the illusions of the divide and conquer syndrome most loyal opposition movement is trapped in.
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  1069. The soviets did not "figure out" the nuclear bomb. They stole the secrets through spies.
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  1070.  @tribalismblindsthembutnoty124  Sure: the kind of job your uncle Guido gets for you on the union construction job, that you don't have to show up for and split the paycheck with him. Also the kind of job you get when your union has negotiated the security of jobs that no longer exist, like the clowns that use to get paid at Bethlehem Steel for doing things that no longer needed doing due to tech advances, but that the company could not get rid of because of union negotiations. Does anybody know why it is stupid to ask if anyone knows something when nobody can respond then says "No? Didn't think so." . . . -- No? Didn't think so.
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  1071. Some people may think that, but they would be incorrect about the cause and effect.
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  1072. "Mowing the grass" -- hmmm -- that might work if your enemy is a plant. But what has been happening in Gaza is more analogous to selecting for increasing resistance in a colony of quickly multiplying bacteria, by repeated foreshortened and sublethal courses of antibiotics.
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  1073. They keep using the same old tricks and the public never catches on.
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  1074. Plus that mini F22 is one sweet ride.
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  1075. Well put, realistic view.
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  1076. Sounds like a raw meat vegan smoothy. Let me guess, the real criminals are satanic Illuminati conspirators that have infested both right-wing anti gov nut factories and the government agencies that try to control them.
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  1077. Why are you crediting the Violent Femmes with a line from Herman's Hermits 1965 rendition of the 1910 song I'm Hernry the Eight I Am?
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  1078.  @fastriver1833  I would take that bet and give you odds. Joe never heard of the Femmes, but he grew up with Herman's Hermits. "Second verse -- same as the first. . . . I'm Eneree the eighth I am. Eneree the eighth I am, I am." Sing along there fast.🙂
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  1079. What's ironing?
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  1080. I had ARk genetics,, I finally just got sick of seeing a loss each day. I think it lost thirty percent or so in the last year. Everyday I would look at my portfolio and ARK would go down but Nvidia would go up enough to cover my loss. Finally, screw this, it just ain't turning around again. Took a big hit, but glad I got rid of it. Now my Nvidia isn't just covering ARKs losses, it's paying off like clockwork, only stock I own that consistently beats Tesla. I do think there is a big future in genetics but apparently not yet, and maybe better not through ARK. Woods problem is that she is too far ahead of the herd. You lose just as surely as if you are too far behind if you are too far ahead. You have to be right at the front of the mob, not out in front of it.
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  1081. Tesla EVs are selling for from 4 to 5k more used than they cost new. This may be part of the reason why they keep increasing the price. IMHO since Tesla should have this money and not wannbe private Tesla dealers, Tesla should offer a next in line fee for those willing to spend an additional 4k to buy a car right now. This would take the money that Tesla is leaving on the table out of the pockets of the used Tesla sellers.
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  1082.  @johnsane2694  Thanks for the info. I have been waiting patiently for a Really good VR headset with the trimmings, like a 360degree treadmill, good steering wheel, real joystick etc. I don't care if it costs a few grand, if it can do what I want, and the paramount app is gaming, then maybe digital sports like racing, then maybe movies in 8k. This thing is obviously not something you would wear on the street like AR glasses. Tech anticipations sucks, I was born sixty years too early, but then again I did get to go to Woodstock when I was seventeen and the whole free love and hippy vibe of the sixties was actually better than the internet and cell phones and all the "great stuff" we have now.
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  1083. How about the number one destroyer of lives -- alcohol.
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  1084. The idea that Biden cares about climate change is an illusion. No company or other individual entity has done more to address the climate issue than Tesla Inc. Biden is and has done everything he can to hobble Tesla. He just put a member of TESLAQ in charge of auto safety in the NHTSA. Guess his union political associates wanted someone who would hobble Tesla while they tried to catch up. They will never catch up to Tesla and they know it that is why they are attacking them politically. M Cummings owns $900,000 of stock in a lidar company that is a direct competitor of Tesla. Her (not so) irrational hatred for Tesla is motivated by her stock market bets. She intends to hobble the only American auto manufacturer that has a chance to compete with the coming Chinese wave of excellent EVs. Cars that far surpass what the traditional ICE companies are grudgingly STARTING to consider significant to their bottom line, ONLY because Tesla Inc forced them to. If you don't really care about this you don't understand how this will effect everyone. It is the definition of corruption to undermine an ethical, profitable, company that has just added 10,000 new jobs in Texas alone, by putting an irrational, and personally financially biased person in charge of controlling the company that had done the most to abate the climate crisis on all fronts, no matter what the kneejerk, woke, haters of all things successful outside of their constricted partisan purview espouse. THE VENERABLE Sandy Munro's comments: (A man whose expertise is in manufacturing efficiency, and optimal real-world engineering is proven by his accomplishments): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQATlYrOoLU&t=19s SIGN THE PETITION HERE (and check out other petitions you may care about): https://www.change.org/p/president-of-the-united-states-review-appointment-of-missy-cummings-to-nhtsa-for-conflict-of-interest-bias?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_31120814_en-US%3A3&recruiter=1230225823&recruited_by_id=13ce45d0-31c0-11ec-8459-37defe292f81&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial
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  1085. there'd
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  1086. The most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 12 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell. The Americdan Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada. The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. A truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon western tech they no longer have access to.
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  1087.  @obobobobobi  Try intelligence and forgo the false equivalency you present.
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  1088. Kile has learned how to do an ellipses with his eyes! Check it out at 0:33
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  1089.  @2DRonaldo  Your allusion to Napster is incorrect. It was not the government who brought the cases against the downloaders, it was independent law firms looking for a quick buck, and professional orgs such as ASCAP. There was no spyware involved. Anyone who used P2P networks could see who else was active and their ips within the P2P client itself. Also your idea that it is illegal to download music is incorrect. It is not illegal to download anything. It is illegal to share copyrighted material without permission. Since most P2P clients automatically shared files that is what made the activity illegal in most instances. Your welcome.
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  1090. The German car industry is changing the worlds minds about German integrity. Diesel gate is not the only example of the German OEMs acting like the mafia. Hundreds of millions of dollars given to fake environmental scams to stop Tesla from opening their German plant is the latest crime. You could have been producing the world's most advanced, safest, and most environmentally benign automobiles in Germany with German workers, and largely German tech and design but instead you decided to once again act like sociopaths and criminals. So now Chinese produced Teslas out-sell corresponding VW models in Germany instead. Way to shoot yourself in the foot. You will never catch Tesla, and they are obviously ethically superior to German competition. Instead of catching up to Tesla like they claim to be doing VW (the same company that supports the fake environmentalist that are tying Tesla up in inante red tape in Berlin with hundreds of millions of dollars in "donations") have been falling further behind Tesla in European market share itself. These could have been German produced Teslas. German Teslas which were going to be superior to the Chinese because of newer tech. Cheating once again, because you really can't compete with Musk and company.
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  1091.  @briankoski817  As things stand today, if the churches had to pay taxes, especially property taxes, most of them would close.
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  1092. Obviously you have no idea at all what you are talking about. To bad that people as immune from facts as you are are not intelligent enough to realize what a fool you are. Anybody who you don't agree with is a criminal dope dealer. . . you are an idiot and a fool and the kind of person who is leading to the degradation of our culture with you knee jerk reactions which you think are the equal to actual investigation and research into unbiased resources.
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  1093. The simple truth about power: Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it. We knew this all the way back in the golden age of the Athenian hegemony. This includes everyone: both the golden boy of the right-wing nuts, and the wanna-be populists who take a mike at a protest. Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it: for any reason. Power should only be given to a person who doesn't want it and has been found to be the best person for the job. This is why we should turn from our psuedo-republic, which is really a plutocratic kleptocracy to a neoconfusian meritocracy where all positions of power are temporarily held by those found most adequate by means of testing and virtual scenarios devised by scientists and voted on by the populace. The populace would not vote for people but for the various tests devised to select the office holders. I am aware of the objections some would have to this but they are nothing that cannot be resolved by technical means, such as the top scorers being tested further in secure conditions. These tests would be mandatory for every citizen at regular intervals, and whoever scores highest would assume the position they tested for during the next regular government upgrade. This would be superior in every respect to the plutocratic kleptocracy we are now enslaved by. And all forms of cheating could be easily overcome by technical means.
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  1094. You obviously know nothing about the real history of the American Indians. What a bunch of revisionist romanticized nonsense you just spewed.
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  1095.  @tedmoss  Could be, the rate of inflation has changed since I did the percentage.
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  1096. The democrats need a through house cleaning they are the Republicans by another name, and just as bad or worse thieves by other means. End the two party sham. Have some balls. Your damn vote means nothing as it is anyway.
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  1097. Or it could be that FORD is a huge contributor to CR.
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  1098. Not one mention of the health concerns of 5G. I guess these suckers will lie to you and tell you it has all been debunked. This is why people hate wall street and the one percent. Bloomberg has spent over 200 million on his silly political bid -- without realizing that if he can't buy it -- he can't have it. Poor little Bloomberg. I hope all these people die of 5g induced cancers.
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  1099. Guns are important but not nearly as important as the capability of the shells they fire.
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  1100.  @johnalniel1037 What is your source for the lies you wrote? Put up or appear the asshole you are.
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  1101.  @majhiggins  Brilliant tack Kelly. Wish I had been so creative.
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  1102. The main reason that certain mods are not allowed in most racing is because they allow the cars to corner at such speed that if their is some glitch, driver error or other screw-up, then someone may well die.
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  1103. That sound awesome, and the Tesla megapacks fit right in on Hawaii.
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  1104. Be prepared for a mammoth parade of people making its way through Mexico toward the US border and continual coverage on corporate media during the election. The ultimate scare tactic aimed at the same rust belt voters that matter the most.
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  1105. The bias against Tesla is supported by VW and company and the hundreds of millions of dollars that they donate to fake environmental groups in the hopes that they will delay Tesla in Berlin. They really have nothing on Tesla's level, and Tesla even now out sells Germany cars in Germany in comparable models. All those Teslas that are selling in Germany now could have been made in Germany.
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  1106.  @thehillbillygamer2183  Maybe they didn't expect a modern nation to act like barbarians. They should have known better.
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  1107.  @IdleWorker Distraction is a reason.
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  1108.  @himanshusingh5214  Not to mention TSMC which dwarfs both of them.
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  1109. The bias against Tesla is supported by VW and company and the hundreds of millions of dollars that they donate to fake environmental groups in the hopes that they will delay Tesla in Berlin. They really have nothing on Tesla's level, and Tesla even now out sells Germany cars in Germany in comparable models. All those Teslas that are selling in Germany now could have been made in Germany.
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  1110. You left out the most prominent voice foretelling the imminent demise of China: Peter Zeihan who says . . . "America exports recessions, it does not import them." Put that in your crystal ball and snort it.
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  1111.  @HughJass-313  Fake comment on real personal experience. Can you really be so dumb?
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  1112.  @buttafan4010  Yes! admixed cleverly with alien DNA that will cause future generations to be tracked in realtime from the holocrys arrays on Centuri Prime -- from which we will be programmed to long for sugar and mindless entertainment, to soften us up for the invasion of the demons from dimension X.
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  1113. Well said, and as is usually the case the most intelligent and insightful comments get no likes or responses. The formulation of a benign and aspirational system is easy, the implementation without political instability is impossible. The reason for this is simple: the people who continue to under perform in the face of this impending catastrophe control the men with the uniforms and heavy weapons.
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  1114. People have been thinking that for over two thousand years. They were all wrong and so are you. Live in reality not some twisted story.
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  1115.  @ouimetco  With good reason. But there are companies that are working on a solution to dependence on fossil fuels. Two new battery technologies are about to make IPOs and they will end the problem with intermitten nature of solar and wind. Investors are choping at the bit to be able to invest in such disruptive tech, and that bodes well.
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  1116.  @jephidaniels1199  Yep, government is the most dangerous thing on the planet. Used to be religion, and still is in some Islamic countries. But government has kill more people than any other type of organization. And I am talking about killing their own citizens, not enemies in war. Thankfully our own government in the USA is a litlle more beneficent, at least until the SHTF.
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  1117.  @wallaceahtone6149  I saw that doc. No gross mutations like I had expected, and they seem to be doing fine. In an event like you mention, civilization may end, but humans will still exist, and eventually spread out from the enclaves and tribes that survived to once again dominate the planet, and hopefully get into space, where the true golden destiny of humanity lies. IF we make it before an asteroid hits.
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  1118. That's right kids, stay off drugs, or you may end up not knowing how to write a sentence like Kevin.
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  1119. Did your son die from prescription meds or from street drugs that he had to turn to when the gov made his prescription med unavailable? If the later, you can blame the new legislation that made pain meds very difficult to obtain for his death. But then you can't sue the government unless they decide to let you sue them. So there would be nothing in it for you if you pointed your finger in the right direction.
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  1120.  @tribalypredisposed  Good post. I would guestimate Teslas 22 sales as 1.9 million cars this year.
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  1121.  @tribalypredisposed  Sure, it's just a guess. Anything can happen in the coming year no matter how illogical, as Putin is proving right now. Electric Viking estimates 1.8. Solving the Money Problem is higher. California is supposedly ramping their production up too, and perhaps most importantly China is expanding perhaps doubling its factory. It's still not too late for anyone to get in on the prosperity that Tesla has brought to so many investors (except for the short players lol) There is so much potential upside to having a visionary who is actually capable of making his vision happen. FSD if it should ever really happen, and for a few reasons I am not entirely convinced of that, will transform transportation on a fundamental level. A profound transformation that few truly understand the significance of. And as for the teslabot, well, seems like fantasy to most right now, but they better take up a hobby because everyone may have a lot of affluent free time, like it or not.
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  1122. Not just a talking head: a talking walking head.
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  1123.  @StephieGsrEvolution  Well I agree, with you, but you are not replying to my post at all. The dynamics of capitalism is not capitalism par say. And we could certainly rid ourselves of sociopaths in power, this could be easily done, all that is lacking is the will to change to a system that is determined not by emotions and disinformation, but by testing and performance in virtual scenarios as would be the case in a sort of RetroConfucian TechnoMeritocracy. I could literally work out the details of such a system in a weekend, and so could any eighth grade class with a little guidance. These things are only thought to be impossible because almost everything is impossible apparently with the exception of useless wars that kill innocents by the hundreds of thousands, in our present idiotic take on a anachronistic system.
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  1124. It all started in the Nixon administration, when suddenly the police had the authority to search without warrants if they lied about believing a crime was being committed. Zero tolerance is the lie it went under.
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  1125. Or. . . the right wing-nuts will say that Denmark and company are really capitalist countries. Which the are, but the are also democratic socialist and have a better social mobility into the upper classes than we do, even though our workers produce more per hour.
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  1126. Here is a good reason not to set up a factory in the UK. In the seventies a relative of mine was the executive engineer of an international company that was building exactly the same plant all over the world. On some of the main components the welders in the UK completed two and a half a day. The welders on exactly the same components in Germany produced an average of ten a day. Nuff said.
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  1127.  @RussCR5187  You got it Russ. And in addition they keep us dummies divided against each other -- mostly with meaningless and often manufactured issues. Nothing has changed on earth since the dawn of civilization. I can think of no hegemonic nation-state or group who behaved otherwise. The only saving grace is that from time to time one state becomes so dominant that there is a period of peace for great swaths of land and population, except of course for those on the periphery of that state or it's frontier. No power should ever be given to anyone who seeks it. I mean the Greeks knew that, but evidently it passed with the short lived quite exclusive democracy in Athens.
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  1128.  @geraldscarff8097  Spoken like a man without any intelligence at all.
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  1129.  delreydavid  Cows have their own motivation for existence quite like you. It's called the survival instinct and it has nothing to do with you finding them useful. By your reasoning there would be no deer, no elk, no animals at all that we don't use for food. But I doubt that you have the intelligence to realize how dumb your comment is.
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  1130. On paper Russia looks OK their. But it's the pilots that matter not the paper.
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  1131. Show this to your moderate friends!!!                    Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514
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  1132. You must respect my authority! So after two hundred years the public is finally figuring out that people become cops because they want to push people around with immunity. Finally figuring out that all cops lie in court without hesitation or remorse. All of them. Wake the fuck up. These people need therapy not authority.
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  1133. Paying $450,000 to people who took it upon themselves to show up at the border. Probably the stupidest piece of legislation ever passed. Trump should pay it out of his own stash. You can tell that it's not their own money that these fools are giving away.
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  1134.  @kx7500  You expose yourself for the dualist imbecile you are. Everything is either up/down, right/left, good/bad -- in the mind of an idiot.
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  1135. Take away from the vid: I need a translator just like you have.
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  1136. By the time the Chinese and German OEMs catch up to were Tesla is today, Tesla will be solid gone, and further ahead than ever.
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  1137. If NMC batteries are considered "super explosive" (which they are not) then a tank full of gasoline must be considered a clandestine therrmobaric device.
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  1138. Are you kidding? Trump doesn't give a shit about facing God. He doewn't really believe in God -- despite his continual con.
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  1139. "I could be on a private island drinking Mai Tai's with naked supermodels, but instead I'm here with you" -- Elon to co-workers working over-overtime on the factory floor. Says it all. Apparently Bill Gates and other elites preferred the island.
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  1140. The American Model 3 P would kill the Porsche.
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  1141. Even Nixon would have had the sense of shame to step down long ago. Trump is shameless because he is a hard core psychopath and all this brouhaha over whether a crime is a crime depending on who does it is insanity. This country is confused in a way that just a few decades ago would have been impossible. Impossible, that is, before Fox News and Trump, which are the real anti American anti democracy forces in our society.
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  1142.  @flubby1982  You are a victim of FUD. I am still holding and still in the money einstein. I am an investor not a trader. No company of earth has the potential that Tesla has.
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  1143. You are correct. 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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  1144. That's the plan, and it's working. Follow the money. If someone thinks it matters who is elected president to the people who planed the plan, they are asleep at the wheel.
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  1145.  @lookforward2life  Chris is actually running for office in NJ. He is a source of truth that I have long admired for his REAL Christian values.
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  1146.  @joeking433  Joe King you are like a professional shill for traditional OEM. You knowledge is extremely questionable and usually dead wrong. Also if there is anyone who is biased it is you. You wouldn't be so ass hurt if you buy some Tesla stock. Come on admit it. Who do you work for? The union? Affiliated with some dealership? You are a lot like the Russian trolls who accuse the USA of everything the Russians are doing. You can't be so ill informed in reality, it has to be a money thing.
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  1147. lol -- good one
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  1148.  @Ruben-w2v  Since bitcoin does not have, and never had, and never will have any intrinsic value: it's value is totally derived from a story in the minds of those who value it. In other words, it's value is totally derived from what people think about it. The same is mostly true for many items that do have a physical aspect: Banksy art for instance, or half million dollar handbags, or even diamonds and gold. Of course diamonds and gold do have some intrinsic value as do the handbags, but it is really only a percentage of their value, and in the case of the Banksy art and the handbags: a minute percentage. Stocks and bonds and the value of currency itself is largely derived from consensus perception as opposed to intrinsic value. Food, water, and air, have the most intrinsic value, but even that is relative to scarcity. What is the value of a loaf of bread sitting next to a thousand other loafs at a supermarket? What is the value of that same loaf if it is the only source of food for a hundred miles? What is the value of a bullet if society collapses?
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  1149. You are not getting it. Think computers, not cars. If you wait for the next big thing you will never buy. While if you drive a Tesla for three years you will save so much on gas until you get the next big thing (which never stops coming)
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  1150. fuck twitter and fuck facebook too. I don't know anybody who used twitter and I know loads of people.
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  1151.  @tintinismybelgian About 99.999% of the thoughts proceeding in the brains of mankind are associative in a fundamentally metaphorical sense, therefore figurative. This is why the sages of all ages claim that man lives in a dream.
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  1152. That is true when speaking of philosophy, ethics, religion, and spiderman comics, when speaking about mechanics, electronics, gardening, etc. It's not true at all. In the later case, if you don't know that you know something, you don't know it.
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  1153. Didn't realize my ssd array ran on coal. Who knew?
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  1154. A couple of billion in shorts by Gates has a lot to do with the recent FUD on all mass media.
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  1155. Or in this case as a result of a bunch of brain-washed religious nuts taking over a country. And that could happen anywhere as the right-wing fundamentalists have proven.
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  1156.  @heyzues8363  You do realize that Trump is not tan, he is fish belly white with grey and blue overtones. He is bald, he is fat, he had plastic surgery, and does everything possible to cover up his hidieous obease appearance. Including tens of thousands of dollars spend on his stupid hair piece that is woven into his remaining hair. If you saw him without his make-up and fake hair you would not recognize him.
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  1157.  @Hoolygan4ever  When you say "you" are you referring to the banksters and billionaires that control who gets nominated on both sides, or the populace who are always given the choice of who they hate less by the few families who own everything in the system, through legalized corruption of campaign fnance? Are you so naive that you believe in the illusion of choice?
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  1158.  @zeektm1762  First of all the people who now consider themselves conservatives are not conservatives at all. Eisenhower was a conservative, but if he were in office today he would be considered a socialist by the people on the right -- who are radical right wing fascists. The puddin heads on the left are equally as ridiculous and deserve all the abuse they get. The difference is that the people who now consider themselves conservatives and progressives are out of touch with the mainstream and reality. This is largely due to the media, mass and otherwise that feeds them with lies 24/7. Fox news is a great example, as is msnbc, while not the most extreme, they sell lies 24/7 and then turn around and say that what they are presenting is not news but entertainment. Well you have to be pretty darn stupid to find either of them entertaining.
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  1159.  @asdasdasddgdgdfgdg  Dude, I was there, the average person was much happier in the fifties. In the 50s a typical American family had a dad who worked, a mom who worked at home and kids that were subject to a physical beatings from teachers if they acted out in school, and took civics in HS. Oh yeah and no mass shootings during school hours. See a lot of families were one unskilled blue collar worker could support a household today? The quality of life, the amount of leisure time, and the activities that people did during it have all degenerated. And you present quality comes almost entirely because of cheap Chinese goods sold at the quality store Walmart. That has put all the small business that supported the local economy out of business and destroyed the middle class outside of professionals. But you can now buy an air conditioner that is one fifth the price of the ones that used to be made in the USA (adjusted for inflation) only you will need seven of them to last as long, and none of them will actually cool worth a shit. Now it is so wonderful that kids spend five or more hours a day on social media filling their heads with nonsense and playing stupid little games that have captured their nervous systems. America has been dumbed down -- drastically.
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  1160.  @asdasdasddgdgdfgdg  Well you obviously have ossified stereotypes instead of perception as your preferred mode of functioning. I was seventeen when I hitchhiked to the first Woodstock festival in Bethal NY. That was in 69. So you figure it out. Still the greatest year in modern American history. There were a lot of boomers, and almost none of us were fat, like fifty percent of the present population of the USA. Another area of degeneration there.
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  1161. Dude, he as already done that on multiple occasions. But really, at this point Tesla is far ahead of everyone, and if you can afford it, that is the one to get.
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  1162.  @ericlane3256  This is a lie. The upper 20% do not pay all of the federal taxes. Not only that but what you are actually misinterpreting as a tax burden is the result of a tremendous increase in wealth inequality between the average worker and the top 20% that has seen tremendous increases, mostly due to capital gains on investments. And many of these recent increases in wealth for the top have come because they stabbed the average American worker in the back and put them in competition with those of desperate poverty in Asia and elsewhere. So due to the coercive manipulation of politicians and regulators the very wealthy have managed to steal the wealth of the middle class, and now you say that the rich are not hate worthy. Hating anyone is a waste of energy, but the present system that led to such drastic inequality is a system by and for the very group you are extolling with your quite juvenile and partial assessment of the situation, and it sucks as much as the spin you give to your totally incorrect statistics.
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  1163. I know, it's been one "Tesla killer" after another, and "game over" for years. lol At least they know who they have to beat, even though they have no chance at this point of even drawing near to Tesla. Most consumer satisfaction of all brands. Most people who now say their car is their most prized possession. An entirely new kind of possession that continually improves itself even after you purchase it. If they haven't driven a new Tesla for a few days they should just shut up, or go out and rent a Hertz Tesla and be converted.
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  1164. The idea that China has a 5,000 year civilization is not even close to true. China has a 5000 year old civilization in the same manner that Scotland has a 5,600 year old civilization: People lived there.
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  1165. I was a Bernie supporter until he made his ridiculous comments on Elon Musk. For every day that Elon has been an American citizen, he has paid one and a half million dollars in taxes. A million and a half a day. I venture to say that he has paid more taxes in a day then Bernie has in his entire lifetime.
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  1166. Want a real ice cream hero? It ain't Ben and Jerry: it's John Robbins. He was the heir to the Baskin Robbins fortune who turned it down when he personally came to understand how harmful ice cream is. I use to see him at the gym in Santa Cruz, great guy, who has written some fine books about aging and health.
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  1167. Ask the people of Tibet, Taiwan, Xinjiang, the Himalayan boarders of India, and Vietnam if China is just a bogey man. China is just another cloak for the misanthropes who run the world, same as all other hegemonies who attain world prominence. The fact that the USA acts like a wisdomless child internationally does not excuse China for it's behavior. And DN is nothing if not critical of US policies, so your critique is totally bogus.
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  1168. Same as all other countries except maybe Iceland.
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  1169. Don't let them come back. They are Russians who moved to Ukraine during USSR.
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  1170. You think the Musk owns Tesla? About 14% of it. And this kind of thing is on X all the time. HAha.
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  1171.  @daremasterco7321  Finally someone who realizes the situation. Why is it so hard for them to realize that one of the most dishonest companies on earth would expect their millions and millions in donations to benefit them? VW group is like dealing with the mafia. They will complement your efficiency to your face while attempting to stab you in the back.
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  1172.  @Lawrence-sk2os  When my family arrived here pre revolution, there were no walls, no immigration laws, and a lot of them thought of it as "their county" that was being ruined when the other Europeans stated coming, after they established the USA.
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  1173.  @joefish4466  I agree mostly, but I always have the feeling that they should stay home and work and fight for the changes they desire. On the other hand when my own family immigrated to North America from the Holy Roman Empire, they were basically invited to come with lures of free land, and freedom. What they found was lots of opportunity and lots of strife with the inhabitants. At that time there were still strong houses and forts along the Appalachian range (oldest mountains in the world -- even predate the first dinosaurs) so that the settlers could flee and hold out against the frequent Indian raids.
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  1174.  @_Everyone__  I'll take that bet! When is "soon" and how much do you want to lose?
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  1175. Tesla is presently installing the largest battery flywheel on earth in Australia, this will allow you to use something you have plenty of -- sunlight. Great move Australia, while the politicians in the USA are busy hobbling Tesla as much as they can, so that the vig owed on the big campaign contributions does not go unpaid, at least someone in Australia gets it. Musk became the world's richest man by developing industries that reduce greenhouse gases: but no campaign contributions and no advertising dollars really pissed off the power-elite whose parasitism is dependent on the legalize corruption that they have labored so steadfastly to develop and maintain in the last fifty odd years, starting about the time that Reagan ripped Jimmy Carter's solar collectors off the Whitehouse roof.
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  1176. As one seventy year old to another -- speak for yourself. It's not a generational thing it's a class thing.
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  1177. Thank VW group that you are not making the best Teslas in the world in Germany.
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  1178. You got the reason they are banned right, not so much about who invented the "fan" car. It was invented by the same guy who invented the wing that you see behind most purpose built or modified race cars -- Jim Hall. He invented the "fan" car in 1970. He's from Texas, which in some areas may resemble Argentina just a little bit, but they are rather far apart geographically.
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  1179. What do you mean "our" ? Do you own stock in GM? Buy a Honda -- at least they are made in the USA.
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  1180. @Swae Ocean That is final assembly -- right. Back when I bought my Honda over 85% of it was made in the USA. Which at the time was the highest in the nation.
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  1181.  @davidbeppler3032  True, but there is nothing in the manner that it was written to indicate what he meant. This was more a matter of poor, poor writing skills or just not bothering to understand grammar than a lack of reading comprehension.
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  1182. That only holds true if the deceased is taken to an undertaker who are required to report the death to SS. If, for instance, someone lives in the sticks, and their partner just disposes of the body in some illegal manner, like just burying them in the backyard, then the checks will continue to roll in. It won't matter how many people know they have died, if the survivor or scammer tells them he had them cremated and even has a little ceremony with bogus ashes, if no one actually bothers to report the death to SS the payments will continue, maybe for decades, depending on the age at death or murder.
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  1183. I would bet that Tesla will only lower its prices if by some miracle a competitor begins to catch up to Tesla's tech, and charges substantially less than Tesla. If you know of an OEM that meets these parameters please let me know as I may be interested in a purchase. Realistically I will probably just feel compelled to point out how and why your suggestion does not met the first requirement, and if it does, then the price will be out of the ball park.
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  1184. You know Kyle I could show your vids to lots of old people I know and they would probably be somewhat educated about issues about which they only get info from Fox etc. However you seem to insist on throwing a "fuck" or "fucken" into your spiel every ten minutes or so. I guess it's your way of trying to appear edgy or something. But in reality it's just stupid because it automatically shears off people who would otherwise listen to what you have to say. Doesn't bother me personally one bit, but it brings your potential influence to a speedy end with lots of people.
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  1185. late night Dan?
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  1186. Look this is like living among humans 101: The news media's purpose is not to inform you, it is to sell ad space/time. The incredibly negative news on Tesla, which is all bull and irrelevant, should have demonstrated this to everybody by now. They would love to get the billions a year from Tesla that they get from other OEMs. So why would anybody be surprised to be misinformed or uninformed by commercial media? They shouldn't. That's why you channel is worthwhile most of the time. Thanks.
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  1187. McDonalds does in another youth.
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  1188. the real problem is, you are not your self-aware mind. The mind, or what I would refer to as the thought-centric associative mechanism is an automatic function of the real you, of which you are apparently unaware. The entire idea that you are this automatic thought-centric associative function is naive beyond my current impulse to explain. The typical human is identified with this function and this function would indeed identifiy itself as "I". But this is the thinnest of illusions. All the sages of all ages suggest and I have personally confirmed the fact that if one where to actually become conscious on a higher level all these automatic associations, words and concepts come to a complete stop, yet your conscious awareness expands. To think that a person is their "mind" and that this mind can be divorced from the metabolic substrate, and exist in any authentic form without a limbic system is so, excuse the term, so idiotic that it beggars belief.
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  1189. And the cybertruck will never be released. Oh it has been, and oh Tesla is already doing it sans the disaster. Driving under TEsla FSD has far far fewer accidents than people driving their own cars -- so says the actual facts. Get up to speed dude.
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  1190. Interesting question about Tesla. For some reason, and I have no idea why: Tesla is the only OEM manufacturing in China that is totally publicly owned and is not a partner with the Chinese gov. They are presently enlarging the Chinese factory, after having taken it off line last summer for improvements which apparently increased its output tremendously. CATL is also construction a battery factory next to Tesla in China, apparently for Tesla's use. Considering the financial media's hyperbolic attitude about every possible negative about Tesla, I wouldn't doubt that we will see much made of it, and little real difference, other than in the stock market, and that will be temporary. Right now there are over a dozen Chinese EVs exported to Europe, many of them wear storied European marques like BMW, or MG, or Volvo, but are really Made in China an in many cases majority owned by the Chinese gov. All the European sales from all the Chinese EVs sold in Europe amount to about the same as the numbers of Chinese manufactured Teslas sold in Europe. I expect this will change dramatically as the Berlin gigafactory ramps up. Tesla does not import Chinese manufactured cars into the USA, so no real difference there. Recently wrong-hand drive Teslas have showed up in Austrailia and New Zealand, and despite the Chinese factory continuing to be unable to fill the orders, an unfounded rumor that demand had fallen off in China caused Tesla stock to plummet two weeks ago. The financial and even regular news media has been attempting to coerce Tesla into handing over the advertising vig for years. What are a few thousand outright lies and slanted analysis compared to the prize, if they can bully Tesla into advertising to protect it from scum journalism? To put this in perspective: GM alone spent over 2.2billion dollars for advertising last year. Tesla spent none: you can figure it out. The media says one thing, but the facts on the ground say "outpreformed again" under all present less than optimal circumstances.
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  1191.  @wittiza2102  This is what my reply was about . . . "*Between is a typo." Typo means mistake. But I am glad to hear you have not always been an enemy to the people ruling your country. I guess English is not your first language. I mean, you have to be a mind reader to make sense of some of these comments.
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  1192.  @wittiza2102  Up to you. But fewer people will understand what you have to say.
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  1193. Democracy cannot work, it can only seem to be working if the body politic is continually bombarded with disinformation: from any source. Anyone who spreads lies through mass media should be stripped of all wealth, publicly caned, and banished. What is true and what is not true should only be determined by proven science and physical evidence. We should bring back the "equal time" laws that Reagan got rid of. You youngsters may not know it, but in the sixties and seventies if anyone gave a political opinion on TV, the stations were legally obligated to provide free broadcast time for any and all opposing opinions. All opinions should be clearly declared to be opinions like this one, and the one on this video. At the very least there should be a score that appears at the head of all communications through mass media reflecting the previous accuracy of the source or venue. This could be similar to the review scores on retail sites. Politics sucks ass. Isn't it apparent to everyone by now that our political system is an archaic artifact? An artifact based on humanities inability to escape it's bestial warlike nature . . . :campaigns, winner take all victories, leaders who neither lead (excepting the advancement of the concerns of their patrons) nor have the wisdom to make intelligent impartial decisions on the issues of the day. This political web of deceit is a self-perpetuating parasite that warps collective social culture and is itself continually warped due to shameful self-interested exploitation by those who control the economy through control of debt manipulation. Interests and principalities that spew false narratives which have contaminated every aspect of our expectations of daily life, and our future aspirations (or lack of them). I suggest to you that there are other alternatives. Far more efficient alternatives, that would benefit the whole of society and reduce the corruption that is not only a systemic disease of our political system, but is now the very sinew, marrow, and circulatory system, of a body politic that has done everything possible to free itself from both morality and justice: through legislative and legal complexities, technicality, outright lies, and all manner of fuckery. It is time to evolve folks. Like a cool pool on a hot day, once you take the plunge it's refreshing and rejuvenating, but before you take that plunge there is hesitation and a resistance to a state change. And we must change the state of our state unless we consider moving into the future by looking through a rear-view mirror and stepping on our own dicks every step of the way while perpetually bitching about it to be some kind of desirable human prerogative. Because as it is, it will never be able to meet our real human needs or provide anything more than updated reruns of the same old conundrums. If human culture and civilization is to advance it must evolve to a higher state, a higher system of state, which will nurture higher states of mind in the populace, not continually drag it back by aggravating the primal survival instinct in a technological environment wherein this instinct is counterproductive on numerous levels. I suggest to you that a body politic based on a NeoConfusian Techno-Meritocracy would be so vastly superior: for the state of the state, state of the economy, state of human advancement, and our collective state of mind, that any comparison to the present drunken-knife-fight-in-a-gilded-bordello that passes for our government would be comical.
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  1194. Why wonder: over eighty percent of ALL news delivered on commercial media is directly from press releases. What? You thought they had research and intelligence --$$$ -- from ads are all that matters: BMW Group is part of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG. The do not approach the 2.7billion that GM spent last year but, spent over $100 million on advertising in digital, print, and national TV in the last year. They invest in premium ad units and advertised on over 250 different Media Properties in the last year across multiple Media formats. Their ad program is transitioning to digital, and they are promoting the use of their cars in Gaming to establish a clientele among youths.
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  1195. It was actually a march.
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  1196. Don't all Teslas send data that updates the FSD maps automatically?
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  1197.  @freeheeler09 Well if you have ever been through those big windmill areas in Texas you know there is no shortage of wind there. It is relentless. I don't see how anyone would want to live there.
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  1198. Because of the wealth, implicit suffering of denied claims, and tragedy of the metamorphosis of a happy friendly intelligent boy from a good and wealthy family into a vengeful vigilante, who murdered a member of the power elite, becoming a symbolic act to large swaths of the public AND if it bleeds it leads. . . .
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  1199. Deep state my ass, it is exactly the opposite of the "deep state" that is causing this: Mercer and his band of antigovernment right-wing wackos. Who do you think put Trump in "power" the "deep state"? You are utterly confused, and as much as is possible have it totally backwards. And no one named Doris Hofmann could be so unfamiliar with the English language. YOu are not American so keep your lies to yourself.
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  1200. The fact that "Obama was a sell-out" is news to some, and was not obvious is a reflection on the blockheaded nature of knee-jerk liberals. We are sick of neos both neocons and neoliberals. Just keep reducing the taxes on the power-elite and increasing the military budget and see how long those fiat dollars can float their illusory value by making the public responsible for the debt that backs them. The banksters need to pay, for crimes past, and present. Changing the legislation to make crimes legal through campaign finance contributions to a congress peopled largely by the bought and payed for lying whores of the power elite and other thieves is a kleptocracy not a republican democracy. These people think that their continual thievery is an entitlement of their fortunate circumstance, luck, and psychopathy. And they have the spun dupes of their corrupt corporate mass media brainwashed into continually acting against their own best interests. Dump Trump and make Robert Mercer responsible for the harm caused by the lies that he and the other thieves spread through their fake organizations like Citizens United. Wake the fuck up you neoliberal toids.
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  1201. Off road with unsprung motors: good luck you are gonna need it.
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  1202.  @bthemedia  If there is such great inflation why has SLV dropped like a rock? It is a prime hedge against inflation and the dummies who bought it at 25+ have just been sheared again. Same story over and over.
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  1203.  @slappyfun  Not true. China is the number one polluter of all nations. And so many of their common products contain toxins that most informed consumers avoid all food stuffs that come from China. Their air quality is the worst, they burn the most coal, and I have no idea where you got such faulty info when the facts are so easily found on line.
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  1204.  @C3yl0  Come on, not common. Mistakes like this lead people to believe that you are a foreign shill.. I know I do.
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  1205. Breonna was not being investigated they were at her house by mistake -- everything you said is wrong. You must watch Fox New. That is the only way you could be such a dupe. If someone kicks your door in. You get to shoot them. All witnesses said they did not announce that they were police -- fool.
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  1206. More like opium than cocaine in my experience.
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  1207. Russia is a great place, they are presently bashing old women and dragging them off to prison for placing memorial wreaths to commentate the victim of Putin's latest murder.
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  1208. BMW wishes it was better than Tesla, but wishes mean little to an engineer. There is presently nothing in the consumer market that even approaches the perfection of a Tesla. And none of them will ever catch up to Tesla, the best they can do is to copy Tesla five years after the fact. Tesla is innovating faster than any other OEM, now or in history, that means that people who are waiting for a Tesla Killer are delusional, it will never happen. There have been over fifty EVs hailed by the automotive press as "Tesla Killer", it is now just a joke, as is the automotive press opinions and vastly crooked reviews. Just look at Munro's engineering reviews of Tesla compared to any of the others, nothing comes close.
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  1209. Does AOC represent all women? She speaks as if she does yet most of the white women voters voted for Trump. So I would say that unfortunately, she does not. Not even close. The neighbor women around me probably never even heard her name.
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  1210. The one to really not forget about is mescaline. Or levo dromoran depending on your orientation.
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  1211. Coffee is a drug, and pure caffeine is much more toxic than pure cocaine, and just as addictive. I think I will go brew a cup.
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  1212.  @DerAlex86  TLA is not an acronym it is an initalism. If it is not easily pronounces as a word, like Hymar, it is not an acronym.
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  1213. shells are the most important factor. 155mm shells can be upgraded to rocket propelled smart munitions with a little kit that is screwed in. This would make all the difference in the artillery battle that is Ukraine. This would be devastating if brought to bear against the beast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1156_Precision_Guidance_Kit
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  1214.  @turtley8883  OH, I agree entirely, its the mining for coins that is possibly the stupidest thing ever devised. Coins could have as easily been allocated based on individual genetic codes or other schemes. But spending real resources for a fictional product that could easily be disseminated otherwise it so beyond stupid, not to mention environmentally negative.
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  1215.  @turtley8883  No crypto bets for me: chips, EVs, batteries, they are not doing great either but I am an investor not a trader, so am mostly unconcerned with fleeting fluctuations.
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  1216. He's not the only one: Over twenty negative Tesla "news" stories on the yahoo finance Tesla chart page today. Every one of them is faulty or just outright incorrect. This cannot be totally attributed to reporters all having their heads up their asses.
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  1217.  @yagiznebioglu1852  Stupid comment of the week award. Congrats.
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  1218. Why the long face John?
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  1219.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  TSMC is currently working on 3nm. When you say "just one generation behind" You do realize that that is using foreign tech, that they cannot reproduce? And only that because of a modification of their current foreign tech machines by a foreign tech modification that has not yet been banned from China, but likely will be. . . . well let me quote Herve Bebey From Quora speaking of China's fabs: "Now in July 2022 ! They just released a 7nm SoC for an American bitcoin mining company USA put an embargo on ASML EUV claiming it contains US sensitive technology. So China wafer fab such as SMIC cannot have access to this essential technology to move beyond 10nm. SMIC was able to reach 7nm thanks to DUV Deep UV. US sanctions may prevent SMIC from upgrading from DUV to EUV, but they have not stopped it from developing process technology at 10-nm and below. As a result, the US government is now seeking to ban sales of DUV lithography equipment to SMIC.
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  1220. excellent
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  1221. I can't get over the amount of praise for your reports, which are dubious at best.
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  1222. The owner made some good initial choices. In my opinion this is the direction that performance will go. The big change is coming: EVs will become a lot lighter and it won't be long before they attain parity in handling. There are a lot of porsche fanboys who routinely disparage Teslas in comparison to Porsche. But really, though there are the plaids, they are more an after-thought: a fun option for the odd affluent sedan/grand touring type driver. Teslas are designed to conquer the fattest part of the emerging new market paridigm. Porsche, on the other hand are, and have only ever been a niche segment that caters to performance enthusiasts. If Tesla had the ultimate sports car as a design vector it would be an entirely different game in the performance world. I would love to see Tesla release a small affordable roaster based on the new model 2 design -- preferably a fancar named the McMurtry edition. So McMurtry could be to Tesla like Shelby was to Ford. I am counting on the fact that my coming Teslabot will be able to build one for me after Chat GPT69 designs it. It seems like that will be the best bet.
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  1223. You can't use sodium in cars, only megapacks and such.
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  1224. No factory paint or aftermarket wrap for my CT. I will mask off digital camo and spray it with a few cans of paint. Then If I get sick of it, I will take a brillo pad to it and change the scheme.
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  1225.  @KlaatuZu  phrase
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  1226. One of the few times I disagree. If nothing else both the republicans and the democrats are proving they are partisan, evil, morons in the impeachment tempest in a teacup. The only real point of all this is to distract everyone from the continual attack on the populace by a group of psychopathic corporations, that have basically taken over everything by buying US politics.
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  1227. Short races like hill climbs utilize all the benefits of electrics. A 24 hr race is a different story -- for now. . . .
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  1228.  @MrDXRamirez  Yes I personally consider the food additives you mention as more of a public health problem than arsenic in rice. The fact that no definitive testing is done prior to them being used in food products is abyssal. I personally only eat organic produce and no fast or processed foods at all. But even this does not entirely protect me from the chemical onslaught. And strangely enough some of the most undeveloped countries have some of the most toxic foods. But the lines at McDonalds are still around the block, when you can feed your family poison for less money than it would cost to cook at home, there is little hope in changing the behavior of the average person, when it is so convenient to remain ignorant
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  1229.  @MrDXRamirez  I can understand why you have that view. Personally I would like to see a RetroConfucian TechnoMeritocracy that was based on unbiased science in which all representatives were selected by an ever evolving compendium of tests and virtual scenarios the highest scoring of which would be appointed to the respective office until someone bested their performance during the next scheduled government upgrade. However I am not holding my breath. I would not want to return to an era of family owned farms, basically because I do not want to work that hard. I guess it would be cool in a way for everyone to live in their own little spaceship earth kind of self sufficient homestead, like they build out of old tires and what not, but as I recall, my grandfather could not wait to get off the farm and start a business, because then he only had to work six days a week instead of seven.
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  1230.  @digitalbookworm5678  Certainly true, as do many plants. That's not the issue. The issue is at what level to these plants constitute a probable risk to a person who includes them regularly in their diet. That is why the individual level of heavy metal contamination, of the land is such an important factor. Of course there are areas that have such high natural concentrations in their soil that they do almost equal that of a former cotton field, Pakistan has such areas.
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  1231.  @StephenKNicholson  Quite right, my mistake. We could still use those awesome shells in any event.
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  1232. That's because they can create a perception of reality and one of danger sells the most commercials/ gets the most clicks. Look out your window or take a walk, in 99.999% of cases you will find no threat. No news is good news.
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  1233.  @Anointed012  There is no "country" outside of the people who inhabit it. There is no United States of America outside of it's citizens. What living Americans do you imagine benefited from slavery or participated in it? Most Americans are from families who immigrated here after slavery was abolished. Even in the south not many people actually owned slaves. If you know real history then you know that almost everyone has ancestors that were slaves or serfs who were not free to leave the land they worked on or travel. Try to understand that: Almost everyone has ancestors that were slaves during one period or another. Why do you think that people who had nothing to do with enslaving others or trading in slaves owe anything to people who like themselves had ancestors who were slaves? Maybe the Italians and the Vatican should give me money because the Romans took some of my ancestors as slaves -- right? Why not? It makes as much sense as you getting something from someone who had nothing to do with the enslavement of your ancestors. Cuba had three times more slaves brought from Africa than the USA. Brazil had five times as many. Should they get reparations too? From who? Other mixed descendants of slaves? How about the vast majority of African American folks who are part white: Do they have to pay themselves reparations? Get real. Most of the African slaves that were taken were taken by other Africans and Arab slavers and sold to the Europeans at the coast or even at islands off the shore of Africa. Why don't you ask Saudi Arabia for reparations? It is most likely Arabs who actually enslaved you ancestors. The Arab raiders took slaves from Europe too. For over two centuries no European coastal town was safe from their slaving raids that went as far north as Iceland. There were so many white slaves being sold in the Jewish run slave markets in northern Africa that it was cheaper to buy new slaves than to care for them and feed them. Almost all were worked to death and left few descendants. But that probably doesn't impact your world view. Get over it.
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  1234.  @davidsandall  Trump reduced taxes on the middle class (temporarily) and reduced taxes on the wealthy (permanently) all the while running up the defect at a rate higher than anyone ever has. Just like Bush did before the last economic bust. Now he wants to end social security, medicare, food stamps, help with rent and heat for the needy, and emergency aid to children, to pay for the deficit he ran up. If you support trump you are one of two kinds of people: a multimillionaire: in which case your support make perfect sense, or you just another rube that got coned by a NYC conman. The biggest problem with most Trump supporters is they are one issue voters: guns, abortion, border security. These people have been played for decades by the politicians on both sides. But the fact remains that Obama deported more undocumented residents per year than Trump has. And the Republican are not ever gonna ban abortion everywhere because they would be killing the ecumenical goose that laid the golden egg. And think about this: Trump made bump stocks illegeal and they had to be destroyed or turned in without any compensation. Bernie said that was illegal, and that at the very least the people should have been compensated for their loss. I heard that Trump already has offers to be the new host on The Price is Right, after Bernie crushes that lying mentally ill Mercer puppet.
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  1235.  @davidsandall  You have bought into a false narrative. The reality is that not only do the citizens of the Scandinavian countries (which you consider socialist but which are not even close to socialist) have (and feel free to fact check this) Better yet less expensive health care, free university, freedom from worry about financial ruin destroying their lives, the citizens are happier, and here is the thing that kills all your republican cult bullshit -- higher social mobility into the higher classes. Go forth and fact check and sin no more. Fat chance right? More like: no matter what the facts are -- your sticking with your opinion. Right?
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  1236.  @davidsandall  Oh, and I notice you failed to respond to the fact that while running up the deficet to new heights he cut taxes. You probably like that, because it will eventually destroy the government. This is all Robert Mercers plan and you probably don't even know who he is. Well maybe you know that he owns more fully automatic firearms than anyone else in the country.
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  1237.  @davidsandall  Look at the Trump cabinet and his appointments. It's Robert Mercer's wet dream. Put people who hate the various agencies in charge of them so they can ruin them and put more Goldman Sachs banksters in the cabinet than ever before. He is a fake populist and Bernie would have crushed him in 16 because the anti Hillary vote in the rust belt would have voted Bernie just like they voted Obama. Only Obama was a puppet just like Trump. Bernie is no one's puppet. The narrative you have swallowed is that it is social programs that is running America into the ground -- just like the fucken lying manipulating cheating power-elite want you to think, while all along it is the banksters and the hedge fund managers that are eating your lunch. And everyone else's. They are stealing from you in ways you do not understand and that you can do nothing about.
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  1238.  @davidsandall  Truly retrograde opinions you have. You just can't see that we should be the government instead of the professional political class and we want a future for our children that is better than what we had and the opinions you are expressing are the opposite of that. And you people who are so concerned about what other people get as a result of the bounty of our culture actually hate work. I have worked all my life since I was ten. got my social security card when I was ten because I had to work in a factory on weekend and all summer long. And later when I was a glass blower I worked as an apprentice seven days a week for $2 dollars and hour for years and never harbored any negative feelings about those who had an easier life, because I loved my work. My family fought in every fucken war this nation had, including the Revolution. I can take you to a cemetery in the PA dutch area of PA and show you a line of grave stones that goes back to the French and Indian wars and I think that you are anti American.
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  1239.  Sophia Anatolios  Ok Sophia quote your source for your information. If it is valid and not a fake report I will change my mind.
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  1240.  Sophia Anatolios  cop out .. what are your sources?
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  1241.  @thunderbird3694  I agree entirely, and actually in retrospect I regret having given the thumbnail sketch of fascism that I did in my response, because the truth is that fascism is such a fungible term that it can be applied to almost any system that melds the corporate and governmental forces into a totalitarian regime. I could for instance give credible evidence that both Communist China and the USA are effectively, if not always apparently, fascist in their actions. The parallel between Hitler being installed democratically by massive popularity among rural Germans, who had no idea what he was or represented other than that he promised an end to the eternal bickering of the Wiemar Republic. So similar to the few thousand rust belt voters who were ultimately responsible for Trumps victory in 16'. Many of these voters would have voted for Bernie instead of Trump, but the narcissistic neoliberals could not phantom the degree to which Clinton was despised. While in NYC, where the people actually knew about Trump's incredible assholeness, he did poorly. It's not the first time a NYC conman has pulled the wool over the eyes of a bunch of small town rubes, and it won't be the last. J.P.Morgan's recent monumental fuckery of the silver futures market reflects this to the n th degree. Not a bad scam, a billion dollar fine on their ten billion dollar illicit profits.
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  1242.  @ryanmiller1317  I would say it is far more intense than mushrooms. I have never had actual hallucinations on mushrooms. I mean hallucinations where goddesses and demons appeared in the room and interacted with you, or my girlfriends nipples became two whirling sparklers, -- spinning in opposite directions by the way. Or a crimson goddess comes floating ingo the room on a flaming cloud. Or the entire world turns into spinning swastikas one growing out of the last and each resolving it self in ecstasy with little misshapen gnomes jumping out of them into the room. But that may be dose dependent. Shrooms give me a kind of nervous hollow feeling behind the conscious activity. Buttons on the other hand, though far more intense had this protected coddled almost nurtured aspect to them. Strangely enough I also tried San Pedro on a few occasions and it was not the same at all even though it is supposed to be the same active element. Once on San Pedro I just blacked out for hours and apparently just carried on normally. It was like a negative experience, not in a bad sense just in a nothing sense. One time I picked up this Mexican hitchhiker in the Sonoran desert and it turned out he was a brujo of sorts. He offered me these huge fresh peyote buttons after we stopped at a bar and played some pool. It was the only time I ever did fresh buttons. He watched me like a hawk while I ate them, expecting the gringo to be disgusted by the bitter taste. But they tasted fine to me and he found this hilarious. So it may be some kind of personal affinity I have for buttons. Back in the sixties I became convinced that LSD and company would save the world and enlighten people in mass. I was also quite sure that the experience on psychotropics was equivalent to if not synonymous with a state of mystical enlightenment. Then one day while on lunch break when I had a job in a popsicle factory during the summer, I was gazing out a window at a nearby bridge, and I could not possibly describe what happened next but it cured me of that particular assumption. And since then I have had other experiences that just blow psychedelics out of the water, and they were so perfectly apt so natural compared to psychedelics, yet even more extreme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOVUo5TYJM
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  1243. If someone kicks his butt I will take care of their attorney fees. If it's someone that is guarding him I will double it.
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  1244. You can make that bet at dozens of online bookies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mmieZYF__c
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  1245.  Jack D  Only if we let them again.
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  1246. I agree entirely. I can only think of the Porsche 911 when people complain about the unchanging style of the Teslas. It barely changed for decades and was mostly so ugly that only a real driver could love it. Or the Dodge demon and derivatives: they all look the same year after year. Then their was the king of them all: the VW beetle. I think they still may be making them in Latin America, or did until a few years ago. What was the sense in updating the bug? . . . Perhaps to reduce sales? If they were still making the original VW bus, they would still be selling them. If they took exactly the same hippie bus style and electrified it, they would sell millions of them. But. . . you know, neither you nor I, nor apparently even the market, gets to make such decisions. I personally would much rather have a 69 camaro style with updated everything but the body like Joe Rogan does, maybe even electric. Much much rather have the 69 style Z/28 x33 body with the endura bumpers and all new internals than any of the more contemporary styles. What people really get tired of is not some great design, but their own minds, and their minds have been shaped by a century of conditioning by a manufacturing philosophy based on planned obsolescence which necessitates both intentional inferior quality and the instilled need to chase personal fulfillment through the ownership of designated status symbols with ephemeral longevity.
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  1247. @Asherah 1147 Neither peaceful protest, nor old news is an oxymoron, and humble opinion is on the fence. If I say, "In her quite humble opinion, Ms. X claimed that . . . " It is not an oxymoron, and in other cases it depends on the subjective attitude of the source. The word news did not come from the word new, though it certainly seems like it did. The word news, is an acronym for the words north, east, west, and south, indicating that it entails reports from all quarters. The term peaceful protest simply does not qualify at all because protests are not inherently violent. just saying . . . Also note: ellipses consist of three dots each separated by a blank space. . . . just saying "Just saying", is not a sentence therefore does not need a capital letter in the first word nor a period at the end. . . . just saying . . .
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  1248. Don't be surprised if they find DT wondering around the streets in a bathrobe in order to cop a plea.
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  1249.  @ZeitgeisterOm  That would be ideal. However as long as the voters are subjected to disinformation in the media direct democracy will not work. This is evidenced by the "jellybean phenomenon". That is when a problem such as how many jellybeans are contained in a large urn, like sometimes happens at charity events or state fairs, if there are enough guesses, the average of all guesses is highly likely to be more accurate than the single most accurate guess. That is, democracy at work, at it's best. If however there are all kinds of claims being aired that there is a large hollow space or a grapefruit hidden in the middle of the urn or that the jellybean that are seen are a different size than those not seen or any other kind of disinformation campaign, then the average of all guesses will not be accurate. So in order for direct democracy to work, and it will, there has to be a total cessation of lies and disinformation about the candidates and all matters related to the elections. Fat chance. This is why in my proposal, testing instead of elections is the method of upgrading the government. We are sufficiently advanced to be able to devise a suite of cheat-proof tests including virtual reality real time scenarios that would determine decision making capability far better than the insane system that is now used.
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  1250.  @fiel81  Bull
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  1251. Did facts change minds or did they motivate people who already had such an opinion to actually vote? The polls say the later.
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  1252. Only in intrinsic value. Which is, was, and shall always remain 0.
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  1253.  @ethericboy  It may not have occurred to you but the USA is one of the most self-critical nations on earth. All the rot is exposed continually, and lots of fantasy rot too. Your metaphor is a metaphor for nothing real. And your perception is so exacting that you did not even realize that Steve meant exactly the opposite of what you think he did.
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  1254.  @lapinchechismosa  Grow up. I reply where ever on what ever.
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  1255.  @RussCR5187  Because the guy who I was responding to deleted his comment, which had the metaphor in it. It was just nonsense anyhow.
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  1256. You may as well be investing in Russian arms dealers for all the harm your money will do.
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  1257. That is a shame.
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  1258.  @dutchrjen  All reasonable conjectures except for imagining that anyone with half a brain would own a Bentley. Land Cruiser is questionable too, especially the recent models which are crap. The Bentleys lose more in value faster than any other car in the world -- including the Lauda. That is why posers buy used Bentleys to impress the hoi polloi. So let's say they have a well maintained Tesla S Plaid, a midengine Corvette, and a Resto Mod Jag XKSS. Because the cars you chose are not in the slightest analogous to the US military capabilities.
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  1259. Prediction: The fiasco at the border will lead to a republican win in 24. The unabashed thievery and assumed superiority of the new republican administration will lead to a democratic win in 2028. The rabid nature of the republican base being unable to accept the results in 28 will end in a shooting civil war. Just a note: no matter how great an investment profited in 2020-2021 it was smashed by the increase in the price of ammunition for AR15, AK47s, and similar semiauto rifles. If you had purchased bulk ammo last summer you would have made over 400% profit. Many precious metal dealers are also speculative ammo dealers now. Gun dealers are experiencing the enormous windfall they have come to expect whenever an anti-gun candidate is in office. Either ban them entirely or just stop the stupid half-measures that make the civilian arms industry the real beneficiaries of gun control. And if they are made illegal, be prepared for an enormous loss of jobs in small scale manufacturing. Just the facts.
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  1260.  @Jay-eb7ik  Not just AI, but multiple factors could come into play to advance increased affluence. Baring a comet, radical climate change, or nuclear powered madmen.
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  1261. So the disabled man in a wheel chair that was shot nine times in the back is not news worthy at Democracy Now? Could it be because he was white, and it doesn't fit DN's narrative about the police murdering minorities? If this had been done to a black man their would be nationwide protests. The police are peopled largely by people who find it a hoot to be paid to push people around. If you don't know that, you don't know much.
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  1262. believing corporate news? naive
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  1263. I think you are correct about Trump financed abortions but what proof do you have?
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  1264. It's utterly amazing. Not so much the young people, who either are coyly hip and criticize the gov by showing how it is dangerous to criticize it, though some do. But the amazing ones are the middle aged and older people, they have no idea at all what is going on, and their rationalizations about the few facts that can't be hidden from the people are so (I struggle for a word to describe it) so twisted and tortured and foggy with elements that are as meaningless as the social signaling of right and left wing nuts we have in the USA. It's just incredible. The only thing that comes close to it in terms of absolute denial of reality is those interviews that the Daily Show does at Trump rallies. Same kind of totally dumb blind loyalty and belief in any kind of idiocy as long as it supports what they already believe.
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  1265. McConnel: living proof that Kentucky is the state with the stupidest people, it even puts Florida to shame.
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  1266. No sharp objects
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  1267.  @russellhammond371  Yeah it is a good thing. I would never pay to hear Harris speak. All his good ideas were used up by Jan Cox thirty years before The End of Faith. I was only here to hear what Ziehan had to say in this context. I like his insights on the effects of geography on virtually everything. Not that I dislike Harris. I agree with him on almost everything, except that he knows how to wake up or especially tell other people how to wake up, that well, it's hard to tell. I mean you can be sure if someone is talking or writing that they aren't awake at that moment. And if I didn't know the works of Jan Cox I would really think Harris was something. But I think he has handed out the ideas of Cox as his own too too often without attribution. There are just too many of them with exactly the same wording to be coincidence. The main difference being that Cox IMHO was actually awake, at least in the last five years of his life.
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  1268.  @gnubbiersh647  Yeah, I know. That's one of his predictions I wouldn't bet on. I think he expects China to break-up into something like smaller states. In any case there has to be some demographic fall-out from their population implosion. Maybe they will replace workers with Teslabots. lol
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  1269. That seems to be the common experience with new Tesla owners. Enjoy.
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  1270. Don't know about where you live, but where I live they repave the roads every few years because they need to. All of a sudden I can see the expense of this regular maintenance skyrocketing. Also kind of wonder what would be the effect and cost when some nimrod (propably the same guy who rolled coal on your Tesla) decides to start doing burnouts with tungsten spiked snow tires? I can attest that this is particularly damaging, because at the age of 16 I managed to actually rip up the asphalt for about a half block with my 69 Z28 by trying to lay rubber with new studded tires. This left deep grooves in the road witch eventually filled up with water that froze and over one winter a new asphalt road was basically ruined.
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  1271. If you could by an F22 for 334,000,000 dollars, but could buy an F14 for 280,000,000, IMHO you would kind of be a fool to buy the fourth gen instead of the fifth generation aircraft. The fourth gen would be too over priced in this comparison. I submit that this is roughly the relationship between Tesla's tech, and all other EVs, and the gap will widen.
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  1272. First it was fictional blue hairs from no-town USA that was the manufactured consensus we all had to suffer for decades. Now it is fictional frustrated coddled purple haired numb skulls desperately in need of a safe-space that haunt the fictional halls of the fantasyland the corporate media presents to us.
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  1273. Russo, and China. See Defense updates and The Caspian Report. They are not just threatening the military they are threatening the USA in it's entirety. As the recent hacking and espionage moves indicate. But we could really do a much better job with less money spent on military. China's neighbors are praying that the USA does not abandon it's policy of containment, but the rise of China's military is an inevitable result of it's economic power and the communist parties policy of insuring stability in a less then stable reality, by promoting nationalism as the road to stability. If the west, including Australia, resist Chinese moves toward hegemony, future major conflicts are inevitable. If the west withdraws entirely, it will only be a matter of time before the most important man in North America is the Chinese ambassador to the USA.
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  1274. It's this immigration nonsense that got the fascists in power and it is the inundation of western societies by the waves of them that will bring the right-wing nuts back into power. The current prediction by Friedman and others is that because of failed right wing policies the USA would swing from right to left in current presidential election, then because of failed neoliberal policies it would swing back to a more extreme right-wing government in 24 and that would be the end of the USA as we know it. Very well could happen.
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  1275.  @charliemorrison8168  I almost agree with you. I would say that all our wars since the Korean conflict have been based on lies and also several that occurred before WW2. But when you say that the info available to the public about Bin Laden was a lie, I know you are down the rabbit hole. On the other hand I agree that there was no real reason to go there after a thousand odd US special forces and the Norther Alliance ran bin Laden out of Afghanistan. This was clearly a move on the part of government contractors to enrich themselves.
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  1276. @Bart Garfunkel Yeh, I have been aware of the alternative facts you are spouting for decades the fact remains that Hitler declared war on the USA just like I said. On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a series of provocations by the United States government when the U.S. was still officially neutral during World War II. The decision to declare war was made by Adolf Hitler, apparently offhand, almost without consultation. It has been referred to as Hitler's "most puzzling" decision of World War II.[1] Publicly, the formal declaration was made to American Chargé d'Affaires Leland B. Morris by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the latter's office. Later that day, the U.S. declared war on Germany, with Germany's action having eliminated any remaining meaningful domestic isolationist opposition to the U.S. joining the European war. Those are the facts, what you have suggested are just theories that malcontents spout because they are determined to believe that every evil in the world stems from America. These people are fools.
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  1277. What do you mean "want to"? . . .
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  1278.  @6916lightfighter  Remember to say that when you are interrogated for war crimes.
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  1279. Everybody (even politicians) knows what's wrong with the political system and have for over fifty years and nothing has been done to change things. The lynch pin of all that is wrong with the USA is campaign finance. All private money must be out of politics entirely. No funds of any kind from the private sector to politicians ever without jail time. What is now "business as usual" was not so long ago criminal activity. All campaign contributions are bribes, all PACs are anti-American. America is now owned by a few families, that is why you have such problems. All billionaires are inherently evil because no one makes and keeps that much money without being a scumbag. Think about it this way. If I gave you a dollar every second for twenty four hours a day it would take about two weeks for me to give you a million dollars. It would take about thirty two years to give you a billion dollars at the same rate. It would take 31,700 years to give you a trillion dollars. When our republic was founded severe restrictions were put upon the establishment of corporations. They had to be for the benefit of the pubic and they were only licensed to operate for thirty years at a time. We are now seeing the reason for this. The founding fathers knew that if wealth concentrated like it had in the hands of the royals and bankers of Europe it would be the end of the power of the people in our democratic constitutional republic. By the way the only real democracy on earth is Switzerland, a place with lots of firearms in civilian hands and no mass shootings. A place where heroin addicts are give drugs in a clinical setting which has no drug lords or junkies ripping off everything that isn't nailed down to support their habits. But we decided to do the same things that don't work over and over. We are idiots.
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  1280. I don't know where you live, but where I live almost every plant and major store has Now Hiring signs out, offering starting wages of 15 to 32 per hour for unskilled entry level jobs. They cannot get workers.
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  1281. It's not politics, or ethics, it's the big boys programmed trading that subverted Tesla stock in the face of out-performance in the real world. This is how they get to buy Tesla at bargain basement prices: they know Tesla is going to crush all competition, and they want to own it.
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  1282. Yeh, Shaprio is such an obvious ass I don't see why his name comes up anywhere ever. Don't give him any recognition even in the form of criticism.
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  1283. Guns don't kill people, bullets kill people.
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  1284. Ok, what has he done: Made EVs a viable alternative to toxic ICE vehicles, Founded a company that is the hope of the future of Space exploration, and exploitation, Founded a company that allows fully paralyzed people to interact with the world, deployed resources that have and continue to develop humanoid robots which development alone will usher in an age of abundance, is striving in every possible way and allocating the resources necessary to insure that humanity is not wiped out by the inevitable next extinction level event, build the most powerful super computer array on earth in less time than the next best corporation would need to just plan it. I do believe what he has done, and more or less ignore his goofy trolling. Seems like you have no idea what he has actually done with the genius of his strategic allocation of resources.
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  1285. India is quite anti Chinese, and also is a nuclear power.
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  1286.  @eksbocks9438  Things change after court.
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  1287.  @k.umquat8604  So none of history was anybodies business, because according to you, the progress of nations and civilization is people sticking their nose in where it doesn't belong, like the spread of the USA from Atlantic to Pacific. Or the Reformation. Or maybe you actually think that rationalizations of leaders given to their populace are the real factors that motivate national acts of aggression or self-interest. If you have any understanding that even approaches reality as opposed to moralistic fantasies, you understand that the business of the United States is what it says it is. That is the functional reality of it at this time.
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  1288.  @franzjoseph1837  Sorry: my new policy is to not respond to illiterate nonsense.
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  1289.  @franzjoseph1837  In this case it means you apparently cannot compose a sentence.
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  1290.  @ly7993  As opposed to the chaos and war that they have brought to themselves and other countries in all of their history.
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  1291. When Anna wears that tight bun, I cannot resist pinching her head. I am pinching your head Anna.
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  1292. . . . excellent note.
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  1293. I know you can't see it, but this is a symptom of the problem that causes all this suffering.
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  1294. Mysterious alien punctuation at 1:32. [. . . ] . . . ?
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  1295. Carnivore diet: number one stupid diet. Joe is so in denial about real scientific data that shows that meat kills you in a hundred different ways. He is just so full of shit when it comes to nutrition.
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  1296.  @MrTaxiRob  You got it, and there wasn't a democrat in the house with enough balls to stand up to the gang of frat boys who forcibly stopped the ballot counting in Florida. Why is Florida so nuts? Could it be because masses of Cubans who used to profit from the sin economy in Cuba when the country was owned by American organized crime, fled to Florida and became staunch Republicans? I think that explains a lot.
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  1297.  @lisacox8109  A republic. There is only one democracy in the world today and it is also the only one in all of history that I am aware of: Switzerland.
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  1298.  @madhippy3  Well then we are a Kleptocratic Republic. If you look around and see anything but the facade of democracy in the USA I think it's time to look again. And actually the USA is self-defined legally as a constitutional republic or alternately as a representative democracy -- neither of which is functionally true. Functionally the USA is a fascist kleptocracy on a national level. There is just so much to steal that the fascist military/industrial cabal hasn't been able to steal it all just yet, but with less then one percent of the population owning more than a half of everything, they are well on their way. And by the time that Robert Mercer and his ilk are finished with us the entire golden future of humanity will be stolen by billionaires who would rather see the USA die than pay the taxes they owe on the money they made by producing nothing but logarithms that eat wall street, and by functional association -- everything else too.
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  1299.  @richb2229  Loans to dealerships. All the cars on new car dealer lots are financed not owned. The OEMs make the loans to the dealerships for the cars on their lots.
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  1300. Really? That's not what the actual facts say. The facts say that they are the safest vehicles of all. They have the highest owner satisfaction and loyalty, and they are more than two generations ahead of any other EV. Also they have the most American parts and labor of all cars sold in the USA. And workers who unlike the union bored automatons just putting time in, actually feel a mission to change the world. But they don't advertise, so all the commercial media has been trying to strong arm them with slanted and spun negative reports, and a vast army of union trolls, short sellers, and those invested in the dinocar industry like yourself continually lie about Tesla. FU
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  1301.  @nigeh5326  Yep, and as it's been said, they don't even have to buy politicians any more. It is cheaper to just rent them.
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  1302. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  1303. The can't undercut Tesla on price without losing money on every sale, and it's going to get much worse in the future. Right now, you have to be kind of uninformed to consider any EV other than a Tesla.
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  1304. They are all corrupt. If not Bernie would be president.
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  1305. I truly hope that this video was being framed by some sort of automatic camera and that no human being could have been so dim to have ruined a great lecture by not focusing on the charts and various illustrations being referred to.
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  1306.  @solidaritytime3650 ". . . the brutality employed at the periphery of empire always ultimately returns to the homeland. . . . Quite a romantic notion, but since all empires ultimately end, this statement actually means nothing but, "all empires eventually end". Your presumption that they end because of violence at the periphery of the empire is just that, an incredible presumption. I am not in any way justifying brutality anywhere or any time, just your ability to draw simplistic conclusions about cause and effect in complex systems.
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  1307. Seems to me it is almost impossible to actually know, what you get when buying a Tesla, especially if do not have first hand experience of ownership over some period. Every Tesla owner that I have surveyed loves their car. And of course they make almost daily upgrades to Teslas. Take the new "track" feature that appeared yesterday on the Plaid. All of a sudden it's an entirely different car. Even the owners of a Plaid only have a continuing estimation of "what they got". With Tesla, "what you get" can only ever be an estimation based on what it is at the moment.
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  1308. Sure pal, . . . that's gonna happen.
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  1309.  @gregorioeduardo  Interesting
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  1310. You know that's not true. You can go back much farther in history and it only gets worse than it is today.
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  1311. My understanding is that Mylan and UpJohn merged, to form Viatris. So there is no Mylan anymore. From wiki: In 2015, Pfizer resurrected the Upjohn name for a division which manufactures and licenses drugs for which patents have expired; as of 2019 it plans to divest itself of this business in 2020.[7] In July 2019, Pfizer announced plans to merge Upjohn with Mylan, with the new company to be known as Viatris.[8] The merger was expected to close in the first half of 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] The merger was completed in November 2020 and the new company was named Viatris. . . . So Pfizer no longer owns Upjohn, and Upjohn was just a name for it's generic drug division, which they merged with Mylan, another generic manufacturer, and then divested from Pfizer. I would say there is little hope of punishing Pfizer for a company they do not own, and since Viatris is a generic manufacturer they have no intellectual property.
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  1312.  @repentrepent8989  Spiderman loves me.
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  1313.  @chrisasterion5050  Totally delusional. But do buy gold and silver rather than ones and zeros.
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  1314. You mention the Tesla firings: Most commercial media is pushing the fact that Elon Musk fired a bunch of Twitter employees then offered some of them their jobs back as a total gaff. I beg to differ: Intentional or not, it was a great move. Imagine having everything in your life thrown into the wind in SF where the living is great if you are rich and not for anyone else. Imagine how motivated a person would be to return to their choice position after them realizing the extra work that would be necessary to reestablish that career anew. I personally would put forth a super effort to show my continued worth as an employee at that point, and a little later ask for a big raise.
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  1315. Netscape was 90% of browsers in the mid 90s and you didn't even mention them. Guess that says it all.
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  1316. Your comments section has been infested with idiots today. It's all the same story with these asshats until the boot comes down on their neck then they pause to reconsider their extreme stupidity, if they are alive. If dead the only ones who will do something about it are the people in the streets.
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  1317.  @kayakutah  The kinzhal is not that type of missile. But a real hypersonic missile is not limited by the type of turns a jet makes. They do not use aero devices like fins to make abrupt changes in approach or avoidance, they use small rocket engines that are at a perpendicular attitude to the main engine, and fire them as needed. I have been unable to find any reference regarding your statement about turn radius. Where can I find it?
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  1318. YouTube does that.
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  1319. This is not true. Firstly we have no border with China -- Einstein. And if you actually do the research beyond right-wing nut press releases, you will find that it didn't happen the way Trump lied about it.
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  1320. No way the average FSD Tesla will earn 30k per year. Also what if machine learning makes it easy for any car company and many aftermarket suppliers to develop FSD? I hope you are right, but I call your video pipedreams.
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  1321. Not true, but if you include the military personel and all phases of development, manufacturing and deployment, then they are.
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  1322. BYD perhaps?
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  1323. I'll give you odds that wherever you are from the cops are that same pricks or worse einstein.
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  1324. Totally wrong weapon to use in a crowd. Try a shotgun fool.
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  1325. Really! Trump and his dupes will never understand how funny he is. His spoiled baby attitude together with the nonsense he spews is just hilarious, and the fact that they love every lie that seeps out of his mouth just makes it like some surreal farce of what America would be if derangement became the norm. He is like the messiah of lollipop land.
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  1326. Simple reason why Trump's "strategies" work. As G.I.Gurdjieff wrote, . . . "Even God has no defense against stupidity." A dynamic that never seems to get old, and as of late seems to actually be on the rise. A heaping helping of devolution to admix to the current zeitgeist.
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  1327. You're right, they should turn off the pipelines and restart their decommissioned nuclear plants, and all drive EVs. But the Germans are just blind in some respects and nuclear power is one area where they have been so brainwashed by the activists that it has become a strategic deficit.
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  1328.  @remliqa  Doesn't matter, these Trumpers are cultists who are immune to both reason and facts. That's why they make up their alternative facts, also known as fictions, with no regard for anything but the way they feel about being left in histories dust bin.
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  1329.  @reginaldinoenchillada3513  That would be Great Britain, with only a small input by a few New York families.
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  1330.  Linux user  But Elon loves you. And is trying to make sure that any genetic offspring you may toss off, have a place to live if the worst comes to pass, and a better place to live if it doesn't. Don't be a hater, Elon is the best "richest man in history" we ever had.
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  1331.  @thedavischanger  lol -- good attitude despite the bad attitude. Good show
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  1332.  @calmorton4619  No.
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  1333.  @42dunbar  Merely transient: buying opportunity of a lifetime. Keep that FUD coming, it is my fondest wish that we see Tesla at five or less. But you just don't seem to get that. Tesla fundamentals are rock solid, and they are crushing the traditional OEMs in every regard despite the media's continual negative propaganda in pursuit of those unrealized Tesla ad dollars.
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  1334. Yes, but we have plenty of things that oil will be needed for far into the future, and powering cars and heating homes should be removed from that list as soon as possible.
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  1335. It only makes sense to regulate your borders. There are all kinds of rationalizations for open borders, but they are just that. They have to appeal to white guilt over actions that people who experience white guilt have had no involvement with. They generally present a historical view that is a fictitious narrative, but that is what they believe. Every country has the right to determine it's own immigration policy, not masses of people marching on its border, or a steady stream of people being smuggled in by criminal organizations.
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  1336.  @craigkdillon  Every once in a while they use a guided munition, but mostly not. They are reported to be running low, I guess we will find out.
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  1337. This is laughable. Tesla is the biggest selling ev in China itself outside of cheap minicars that would not be legal in the USA.
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  1338. I like the Jimmy Dore show also, and Rising etc. Actually there are about thirty or so youtube shows that report the news that corporate owned media does not want people to hear. Chris Hedges is the most truthful and courageous of all of them.
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  1339.  @4literv6  Hey, thanks for the info.
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  1340. This is the play that Mercer and the rest of the dark money behind Trump have been waiting for. They will turn any crisis into a fast track to sublimating the government and reducing taxes for the rich. And they understand no rhetoric except the exercise of power, which they have demonstrated over and over again: is not held by the people.
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  1341. This is the most stupid use of fake shills I have ever seen. Crypto is a ponzi scheme that is out in the open. The only thing that makes crypto of any value is that the next fool will buy it for more than you payed for it, that is the definition of a ponzi scheme.
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  1342.  @snake35  True, people in France, still believe that average people should be able to enjoy life.
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  1343.  DrMossydog  Yeah, I remember the great strides that Obama made when democrats controlled the house and senate -- not.
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  1344. Sounds like the girl was there because she wanted to be. If this has taken place in a dozen other states no law would have been broken. If you think that some girls 17 years old and younger are not mature and worldly enough to know what they are doing you do not live in the real world. This is just puritanical BS.
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  1345.  @ballshippin3809  False comparison
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  1346.  @santhoshbalakrishnan920  Establishing air dominance over China has nothing to do with the number of microwave ovens the respective combatants manufacture, it has everything to do with the ability to destroy (easily destroy) SAM and medium range missile radar whenever it is foolish enough to turn on, and simultaneously intercept and destroy missiles deployed against US satellites and knock down opposing orbital assets. The USAs new AGMs range is classified but we know it is in excess of 160 miles, probably closer to 200, is able to be carried internally by stealth fighters, let alone bombers, and is able to be launched outside of the range of SAM units by aircraft such as the F15 and then have a target designated by F35s that are closer to the action. I suggest you explore Peter Zeihan's geopolitical assessment of China's future in order to reorganize your hierarchy of priorities regarding such a possible future conflict. China is now frozen out of any purchase of high end semiconductors, which are oh so useful in developing high end weapons systems, and they are quite incapable of designing or manufacturing them themselves. They are no longer even able to buy the machines that are capable of making them. . . . Re-access bro. And if the USA ever really gets it security tightened where will China go to steal weapons tech? What China doesn't realize is they would still be eating tree bark if not for the west opening up investments and intellectual property exports to China. They are have forgotten what's what in the face of believing their own bullshit, and allowing an isolated out of touch man to determine the course of the billions.
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  1347. Sandy is invested in Aptera -- no?
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  1348. You got to keep up here Doug. . . . meaningless.
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  1349. You have just graduated from a thoughtful commentator on domestic politics to a Fox News clone who comments upon shit they know nothing about. My respect for you has plummeted.
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  1350. This whole opioid epidemic is such a scam it is unbelievable. First they make it impossible for people with chronic pain to get their meds, and doctors all over the country told them not to pass the law that would restrict the prescription of pain meds. They told them, and I told them this would result in massive black market heroin use and suicides and death from all the problems resulting from a puritanical culture that cannot understand it's insane behavior regarding certain molecules. A society that totally disregards all the imperical evidence that prohibition does not work. It just creates criminal billionaires and the dirty bankers that wash their booty and corrupt our society. Continue to ignore the evidence provided by Switzerland and Portugal that show what really works. DN is complicit in this travesty. Wake up and get your head out of it's ostrich hole.
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  1351.  @manuelsevigny6855  That's for sure. On the other hand, the average battery on an eight year old mS still had about 90% of it's original capacity. But a lifetime warranty like the Hyundai sure would dispel a lot of anxiety for those who do not realize that the battery in a well engineered EV will outlast the car in general.
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  1352. Don't forget your official Q tinfoil hat to protect you from the Tesla brain waves that Elon is broadcasting.
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  1353.  @thanelewis8893  Oh, you mean like the oil industry and almost all billionaires? Socialism for the 1% and rip ass capitalism for the proles aye? FY
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  1354. Dude you make me feel so static. I am wondering if I want to listen to podcasts about life extension at gym this morning or watch House of the Dragon and keep an eye on the market.
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  1355. Perhaps you had mistaken him for a nonprofit org.
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  1356. Quite so: in a free venue one apparently has a multitude of half -baked opinions, spin, outright lies, and a modicum of facts to choose from. In a controlled situation like Russia, you apparently have many voices but only one lie to choose to ignore or believe.
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  1357. . . . total of unsprung weight because of hub motor shortcut.
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  1358. Robert Mercer is an idiot savant, this is obvious from his brilliant math, and idiotic beliefs. We are now ruled over by the front man for an idiot savant.
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  1359. Even though Bernie is a non-practicing Jew, in my opinion he is the first real Christian to run since Jimmy Carter. Morally that is. Think about it. Reagan put on the Christian cloak and he was actually a murderous liar directly responsible for the murder and torture of thousands of innocent villagers in Central America, just to point out one of the reasons he would end up in hell if there was a hell. Bill Clinton claimed to be a man of the people and he was just a lying scoundrel who never really got out of the trailer park. George W objectively should be ranked with other clownish tyrants. He and the other NeoCon idiot wiz kids, corrupted the gov by using the power of the military to ruthlessly murder hundreds of thousands of innocent noncombatants, destroy one of the stable non radical Islamic nations, and make the world a whole lot more like hell than it should ever be. He will probably be put in charge of the hot tubes in hell, because despite his apparent simple-mindedness he was one brutal source of evil and lies during his term, who fucked up America as much and maybe more than JP Morgan JR when he manipulated the American public into WW1 thereby setting the stage for the rise of Hitler, WW2, the communist revolution, and all kinds of evil just because he and his bankster buddies could not bear to lose the millions they had invested in English and French war effort. So we entered a war that the American public had to be brain washed into accepting. Luckily the Council on Foreign Relation happily did this for a fee, and employed the newly discovered techniques of unconscious motivation that Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernais developed. This was the worst thing anyone ever did to America. The propaganda was so good that here we are a hundred years later and even most historiand still don't know that WW1 was caused by the Brits, who had a tradition of just going to war with any business competitors. Gemany had just won a contract to build a railroad line from central Europe into the middle east oil fields that granted them the territory on both sides of the tracks. The Brits started the war in Africa with military actions against the German incursion into what they thought of as their oil fields. Now you know more true American history than 99.9999 percent of the people alive.
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  1360. Wow, what a fucken waste of life.
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  1361. In the light of the information synthesized in this video: one can only wonder why it is that America is so ill-served by it's homicidal psychopaths? Why do they slaughter little children and movie-goers when their services are so obviously needed elsewhere? Are you listening psychopaths? . . . People with huge foreheads are obviously reptilians here to bring slavery to mankind and the hideous kingdom of Satan to our fair planet. . . . :^)
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  1362. Don't argue with nitwit right wing bigots. None of them has ever changed their gut feelings about anything. Just marginalize them, that's what really brings out the truth of their nature (infantile needs writ large) infantile me, me, me, instead of a cultured mind.
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  1363. How does someone have an up to 50k debt? Are you stupid or just ignorant?
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  1364. How can someone have an "up to 50k" debt? Are you stupid or just ignorant?
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  1365. Requiem for the American Dream A great doc about Chomsky
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  1366. What happens when Napoleon dick complex gets its small, small, hands on a few billions dollars? Donald the conman, with a big big brain, and so presidential as he brags about the size of his puny dick during a national primary debate setting new standards of class for our nation and making the US a laughing stock among its enemies.
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  1367. Oops such obvious bias ends my viewing of cnn forever, i encourage Bernie supporters to actively shun their programming and most importantly to not buy advertisers products. This video should make you angry. Such an insult to the intelligence of the audience, to think that this abortive changling that these corporate dupes attempt to disinform you with is some kind of truth, or even represents a valid viewpoint is a grave insult. THis is something REAL you can do. Spread the word. Boycott all CNN advertisers as being as subversive to democracy as is Citizens United. Make a list of advertisers and spread it on the internet, boycott CNN advertisers. Bitching never changes anything this is something you can do. I need your help to do this. Please help make CNN a force for democracy not the political views of their owners and advertisers, which is sqewed and on the wrong side of history. Please help. You can use this video as evidence of their malignant bias.
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  1368. How many machine guns does Robert Mercer own? More than anyone else in the country. A dangerous hobby for an idiot savant.
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  1369. "Keep Your Government Hands off my Medicare" popular Teaparty banner.
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  1370. Good Show. Figure out how to make Campaign Finance Reform sexy, and save the nation from the criminal scumbags that are now stealing our nation. If you have two brain cells to rub together you can figure out that the funding of politics is nothing but a system of corruption that was put in place to steal as much as possible for as long as possible. A populist movement cannot win as long as the worst among us: the Mercers, Kochs, and Goldman Sachs minions, control everything through a system of corruption that they themselves have devised. Sure it seems like there are a thousand issues: Trump giving away national assets like Putin did to a bunch of rich unevolved assholes who are proud of their predation upon the populace, and there endless red herrings that get all the single issue voters at one another's throats: climate change, fundamentalist morons who think that the world is six thousand years old and will end tomorrow, wars in support of private business interests, wholesale surveillance of the citizens, a ridiculous number of psychopaths with badges who believe they are licensed to kill, etc. etc. etc. But I am telling you that Robert Mercer understands that the lynch pin of control is campaign finance, that’s why he funds Citizens United, and Britbart, and put Trump in office by giving him key words found by Cambridge Anaylitics to repeat over and over, in near meaningless lies, that the mindless fools that watch and believe Fox New and similar founts of lies were responding to on a limbic level. He knows that campaign finance is the key to power – do you? Until this is done, the present plutocratic kleptocracy will swiftly recover from any temporary setbacks. Sorry if it boars you. It’s not up to your opinion, this is the game theory, this is the facts. Robert Mercer is using the power of AI against the population and government of the USA to make your voice and vote more meaningless than it already is. Campaign finance reform must be done, not because it is somebodies interest or pet interest, but because it is the only thing that CAN be done to stop this avalanche of shit the one percent is burying us under. Goldman Sachs gave the American public a choice in the last election and that choice was, “Would you rather live in shit or piss.” And thanks to 80,000 rust belt fools who were conned by a New York City conman, America chose shit. And until campaign finance is address and totally deprivatized you will only have a choice between shit and piss in all the coming elections. Unless a real populist like Bernie is nominated (don’t hold your breath) as he should have been, and reforms this madness. The shit we are in now is because of the neoliberal idiots who supported and cheated for Hillary and voted for her in the primary even though all the polls showed Bernie as way more likely to beat Trump than her. Trump knew it, he even said it, Cambridge Anaylitica probably told him, and still the Hillary supporters deny it. As Gurdjieff wrote, “Even God has no defense against stupidity." Blessings to those of evolving conscience.
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  1371. Really, Trump seems to be in charge enough to fuck up one thing after another with incredible speed. He is handing over national assets to oligarchs like he was Putin.
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  1372. To protect themselves from government goons with body armor.
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  1373. Sanders VS Trump How much fun would that be.  What a media circus. So if Bernie would be the Nazi candidate; what would that make Donald?
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  1374. The fact that many countries initially supported the "White Russians" is not much known by people, but they have no idea what is going on now let alone what happened a hundred years ago. I remember a story from the book Meetings with Remarkable Men, buy G.I.Gurdjieff, in which he was leading a group of refugees out of Russia during this period of civil war. He apparently had a document signed on one side by a red commissar and on the other by a white russian official allowing him to possess a revolver. He claimed that he could tell by the posture alone of the groups they meet on the road, at quite a distance what side they were on, despite the lack of uniforms.
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  1375. The American people do not get to decide shit. Clinton won the popular vote, Gore won the popular vote but we still ended up with the money choosing the president.
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  1376. If they live here they have a personal investment -- fool, You are living in the past. We are entering an age of abundance and it must be abundance for all.
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  1377. Not at all. It is as functional as your appendix. It is a thing of the past. Democracy can work as all emergent systems do, but not in a culture that is dominated by lies and greed. What will we do when machines replace no just manual labor but intellectual careers? Just carry on with the delusion that the few who own the means of production and future services are god chosen instead of luck chosen. What a foolish proposition. Then the handful of billionaires who will own everything can buy yachts from each other -- what a great economy that would be.
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  1378. McGregor rounds 1 and 4(close) Diaz rounds 2(close) 3, and 5 The winner -- Nate Diaz The real winner WME-IMG talent. Because McGregor means money
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  1379. What's the difference between socialism and democracy? Socialism is an economic system.  Democracy is a system of government. These are two different categories of things.  Something that Chris didn't seem to know. Socialism is the most popular economic system in Western countries like Canada (which experience no 2008 financial crisis) and Denmark (which has the highest level of happiness of all countries). Democracy is a theoretical political system that really doesn't exist on earth, and never has, unless you consider classical Athens in which the men who were not slaves or from some other place had it.  In levels of democracy in the world the USA ranks 32nd. USA was never intended to be a democracy and never has been, if it was, Al Gore would have beaten Bush because he has 1.5 million more votes.  If you haven't noticed: despite the fact that Bernie Sanders is getting record crowds even in red states, far more than anyone else, for all practical purposes he is being boycotted by all the news networks.  I guess they know that their bottom lines depend on the ads, and Bernie isn't going to spend what the others are on ads.
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  1380. The Clinton campaign to keep the government in the criminal hands of the bankers has now spent over a million dollars to pay trolls to argue with Bernie supporters on line. I don't know what she thinks she is getting for her big bucks. I have been online since the first SLIP connections were available to private individuals, back then usegroups was about the only thing online with hundreds of .alt groups. In all the tens of thousands of online arguments in comments and forums, I have never seen one person change their mind on any matter involving politics. Not one. . . But how is it that we are apparently about to end up with an election in which the two most persons (and I use the term lightly) in America are running? Don't be surprised if Bill Clinton runs for vice-president, and if that happens, don't be surprised if Bill has her knocked-off. It's the Clinton way; use the vote of deceived African/American, who don't know enough history and current events to understand that no president since the Emancipation Proclomation has done more to hurt them and disenfrranchise and keep then poor than the "first American black president" Bill (send-our-factories-to-China Clinton. Really, who would be a worse candidate than an person who had her puggy greedy fingers in every illicit scam the government darlings have come up with since she campaigned for Barry (no-water) Goldwater, well maybe Trump, but he may be one of the few who could destroy what him and his billinare chums have left of the American Dream. And no matter what he says, he is gonna go after Social Security, because it is money that he and the other one tenth of one percenters should be getting. All you Joe Sixpacks and Larry the fantasy plumber agree with that. The poor people who have absolutely no say at all in the governance of our nation are the ones who have screwed the pooch and bankrupted the country -- right? So we should further deregulate Wall Street and increase defense and police spending, because who is going to protect the owners of America from the citizens of the vast fashist plutocracy we live in when the populace at large finally -- FINALLY realize that the one percent has been at war with the 99 percent in every way, police brutality, subversion of the regulations that protect the country from rapeacious banksters, and insane defense contractors, the continual contraction of freedoms and protection from the government, deregulation and privatization of the military and penal systems, who Huh? The middle class did not disappear entirely as of yet, but it is heading that way, more rapidly all the time. Meanwhile American score new highs in stupidity ratings as a stunned civilized world listen to the rantings of a spoiled brat, and wonder at the incredible stupiduity necessary to mistake a conman for a statesman.
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  1381. It seems that there is no means of communicating that is simple enough for you to understand it, no matter how clear it is to everyone else. If you are attempting to prove you are not that bright there is no need to present further evidence to this effect. You done proved it Marty.
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  1382. No
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  1383. Why are you acting like some grade-school child who thinks they live in a democracy? You do not. The USA is not, was not, and was never intended to be a democracy. The system of electoral college does sort of suck, but this is not a democracy. Democracy is more or less an excuse to invade other countries, we are spreading it. But we aren't spreading democracy. There has never been a democracy in a major power on this earth, including classic Athens.
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  1384. You cannot buy assault weapons in Switzerland, but if you are a member of the National Guard (militia) you can keep your assault weapon in your home. Seeing how accurate you were on that one I am not even gonna look up the other countries, though you may be right about Afghanistan, probably wrong about the rest.
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  1385. Consider this: if isis had sensor fused, and enhanced radiation weapons like the neutron bomb like the progressive cultures do, would they use them?  We do, but we haven't.  The USA could completely obliterated isis and leave the infrastructure standing, but it hasn't done this.  The USA could drop one sensor fused weapon on one of those idiotic caravans of trucks and armor and destroy them all, but they haven't done it.  In fact the USA has dozens of ways that it could destroy everyone in the isis controlled zones and it has refrained.  What would these idiots who have no thoughts outside of the propaganda of cancerous religious mimes do if they had this power.  Only idiots try to reason with mad dogs, and all fundamentalist are mad dogs.  Just take a look at the Jewish fundamentalist who stabed a gay woman to death for being gay the other day.  These friggin' brain damaged idiots of all stripes must be shown for what they are -- functionally insane.
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  1386. Bernie = Statesman Donald + CONMAN
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  1387. This is entire bull, if people were born gay it would be entirely a genetic trait, therefore if one identical twin was gay so would be the other, because they are genetically identical, however in only half of the cases were one twin is gay is the other also gay. There goes your bulls*it theory.
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  1388. homosexuality is not genetic it is an epi-genetic response to environmental factors, which are mostly other peoples genes.
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  1389. It is not legal to grow opium poppies, it is merely overlooked by the police. If they want to, they can prosecute for any number of offenses. However being as the poppy seeds on your bagel and in your strudel are delicious opium poppy seeds, this is all a grey area that unfortunately may eventually be addressed by clear cut restrictions.
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  1390. Perhaps you haven't noticed that the dried opium poppy pods that you are talking about were quietly taken off the market several years ago. Next will be unwashed organic poppy seeds. They would rather have you die than be in control of your own pain medication. This is apparent by the inclusion of tylenol in many codeine preparations, which is there to kill you if you decide to get really high.
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  1391. It's all distraction while Trump dismantles the regulatory state and puts Goldman Sach minons in charge of the agencies that kept them from stealing at a faster rate, while he gives as much of the national assets away to his billionare buddies as he can, just like Putin did. All a distraction while the real crimes of washing Russian mob money and all that minor stuff goes under the wire. Il Duce has a lot to answer for, and will be lucky to finish a term, but he is really just a dumb barely literate front man for Mercer and the Koch bros, and they just hate the USA and want it to fail, now that they and the Goldman boys have more or less sacked it, they don't want to pay taxes on their booty, so they are attempting to wreck the USA.
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  1392. Unsubstantiated. . . a little less each day. No one embarrasses Americans more than Trump. He has set a new high mark for assholedom. And he has got the Mussolini egomaniac pose down pat.
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  1393. Democracy Now is Consistently the most coherent and courageous voice in the legitimate news media. We are all waiting for the next 9/11 that these retrograde de-evolutionary anti American bastards who wrap themselves in the flag will pull. Let's use the power of Deep MInd to destroy them this time. As Robert Mercer is using the power of AI to destroy us, so that he and the Koch brothers don't have to pay taxes on their booty. These idiot savants are replacing a golden future of humanity that is near at hand, with their own insane and inane vision. Campaign Finance is the lynch pin. Mercer knows that and that is why he attacked you by decreasing your political value by backing such scams as Citizens United and the hydra of fake institutions that spread his poison. As long as they maintain the present system of legalized corruption of our elections through campaign contributions and actions that would be illegal had not these same interests changed the laws to make their criminal activities legal they cannot be beaten and will quickly revive if harmed. It's time to cut through all this, they can deflect us endlessly with the incredible wealth that they have actually stolen from each and every one of us, and brainwashed the dimmer among us to fight in their behalf. They are masters of the illusion of legitimate power, and do have some power, as long as they can pay gunmen, enough to overcome their qualms about shooting their own, or just hire psychopaths who see a police career as a way to exercise their desire to kill and destroy others without the natural consequences. All money must be taken out of politics. It is not normal to believe that someone who seeks a position of power is a good person. The worst persons seek power, the best have to be dragged to it. Why do so many think that leaders should be revered? Look at all those glowing faces in Trumps crowds, some of them weren't paid, aren't millionaire thieves who will personally benefit from his kleptocracy and the Putinesk distribution of national assets to various oligarchs and wealthy buddies, and are cheering against their own best interests. Yes a lot of them are stupid, and that is why we have Trump, stupid people along with everyone else were given a choice by Goldman Sach in the last election, and that choice was, "Would you rather live in piss or shit?", and they chose shit.
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  1394. It doesn't cost ATT a penny more to uncap internet speeds on their DSL lines, but then how could they charge more for speed? Just another right-wing capitalist rip-off of other humans. ATT is the ISP who voluntarily provided offices for the NSA so they could mirror ALL ATT internet traffic. My heart bleeds for ATT and their worthless tech support.
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  1395. So true, only you got it entirely wrong, the firearm that was used was a Sig Sauer MCX. So you got the most basic fact of your story WRONG!
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  1396. Love the grease trap look, but how can anyone take you seriously while you are sporting the Eric Trump Wall Street psychopath look? Yeh you don't look like an edgy hollywood shaker, just someone who makes one's skin crawl with the thought of getting too near to such a grease-ball anticoiffure for fear of cooties jumping off the lard barge you wear on your head.
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  1397. The fact that the American armed forces combat rifleman still has to aim his m4 manually while we have current technology that could automate an electonic trigger and only shoot the target when it will hit it is criminal. We have tech that would make every shot a standard rifle shot a kill shot and every range within 2000 meters or so. Why are not our troops being equipped with rifles that don't miss, when I can buy one down in Texas?
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  1398. So Miller once again climbs out of his own as*hole to pretend that his regressive sound sucks (because he doesn't bite it , he sucks) are relevant. And they are relevant, to sixteen year old libertarians whose greed hormones are on steroids but whose wisdom bearing neurons are lost in a forest of FOX NEW talking points that become talking thorns whenever any intelligence or facts are brought into the gloom of their iron clad belief that idiotic opinions are more relevant to public debates than facts, or intelligent views. But haven't both Donald and this clown won the lier of the Year award?  A has-been that only ever was because of the talent he stood beside. Go back and take some more acid as*hole, you should have stayed in the sixties before you became the 24carot has-been the Neocons believe you are.
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  1399. I am Bernie or Bust baby and this is why: Hillary = crooked Trump = conman Bernie = statesman No Bernie, I vote for Rosann Barr she is smarter than all of them anyway. Something is wrong with a system that is best described as a "hate fuck" as Bill Marher said. Our system managed to deliver the two most hated characters in the public eye. Something deeply wrong there. Don't believe for a second that these bastards are incompetent, they have intelligence and rescources that you cannot imagine, they are truly gods, compared to scum like us. That's why they have to go, because it's us or them. I disagree, I voted for the lesser of two evils before and it leaves a bad taste in your brain. You don't have to worry all that much about Trump, he is just a ploy to make Hillary palatable don't fall for it. Her and her husband are evil on the hoof. The Congressmen will kill Trump, one way or another. Also I agree with kicking out illegal aliens. Reagan allowed millions of illegal aliens to become citizens and we were promised that was the last time it would happen. Get rid of them, there are plenty of roofers and shit in PA and Alabama that will be happy to build stuff for the western states were white guys don't build, and let the migrants in to do farm work and that's it. A country more than anything else is composed of the genetic makeup of its inhabitants, that's why there are resource poor countries like Germany and Japan that are strong and civilized and places with huge resources that are horrible places to live. If you haven't noticed everyone in the whole world wants to move in with the Europeans and become citizens, problem is if sixty percent of France is Algerian or similar, you no longer have a France, you have a kind of mutated Algeria, same here, you would have to be nuts to want to live in Mexico, but if our population becomes Mexican, so does the country, and soon you just have another super corrupt country run by the mafia. Europeans are good at civilization, if they weren't everyone wouldn't be crashing the national boarders of northern and central Europe and North America. Hows that for a series of blinding flashes of the obvious. Hope it didn't fog up your pc goggles too much..
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  1400. Again Chris is correct in his analysis, but offers no adequate course of response: if there is one. But what course could be considered adequate if it is taken by clear-thinking non-violent humanists, against ignorant, violent dupes, whose fortunes are most likely tied to the military industrial complex in a quite evident and direct way, even if it's only that they are a veteran who gets compliments and free meals one day a year, he is also most likely an imbecile who couldn't figure out that he and his dead buddies were fighting over which rich psychopath has the largest yacht docked on the French Riviera and the most congressmen nursing at the tit of his bountiful bribes, I mean campaign contributions. They have no idea what is going on and neither do most of the people whose opinions I agree with. No idea at all. . . .
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  1401. Even though Bernie is a non-practicing Jew, in my opinion he is the first real Christian to run since Jimmy Carter. Morally that is. Think about it. Reagan put on the Christian cloak and he was actually a murderous liar directly responsible for the murder and torture of thousands of innocent villagers in Central America, just to point out one of the reasons he would end up in hell if there was a hell. Bill Clinton claimed to be a man of the people and he was just a lying scoundrel who never really got out of the trailer park. George W objectively should be ranked tyrants who corrupted the gov by using the power of the military to ruthlessly murder hundreds of thousands of innocent noncombatants, destroy one of the stable non radical Islamic nations, and make the world a whole lot more like hell than it should ever be. He will probably be put in charge of the hot tubes in hell, because despite his apparent simple-mindedness he was one brutal source of evil and lies during his term, who fucked up America as much and maybe more than JP Morgan JR when he manipulated the American public into WW1 thereby setting the stage for the rise of Hitler, WW2, the communist revolution, and all kinds of evil just because he and his bankster buddies could not bear to lose the millions they had invested in English and French war effort. So we entered a war that the American public had to be brain washed into accepting. Luckily the Council on Foreign Relation happily did this for a fee, and employed the newly discovered techniques of unconscious motivation that Sigmund Freud's nephew Edward Bernais developed. This was the worst thing anyone ever did to America. The propaganda was so good that here we are a hundred years later and even most historians still don't know that WW1 was caused by the Brits, who had a tradition of just going to war with any business competitors. Gemany had just won a contract to build a railroad line from central Europe into the middle east oil fields that granted them the territory on both sides of the tracks. The Brits started the war in Africa with military actions against the German incursion into what they thought of as their oil fields. Now you know more true American history than 99.9999 percent of the people alive.
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  1402. You do not realize how brilliant what is happening in the middle east is. The civilized world gets a whole lot of radicalized fundamentalist madmen from all over the world in one place so they are easier to find and kill, and they are footing the recruitment and travel expenses themselves.  If I were heading the campaign against isis, I would let this go on as long as possible, and never really wipe them out, or completely destroy their ability to recruit and carry on military actions, so that I could continue to kill more of them.  Which if you haven't noticed is exactly what is going on. As far as your theory that you can't fight a war against an idea is concerned: it is mostly just rhetoric.  We are fighting against three dimensional living beings that by their own actions have proven conclusively that they deserve to die horrible and fiery deaths.  It is working out better than can anyone could have hoped for.
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  1403. The reason that you think that the answers to your questions are obvious is because you are so thoroughly indoctrinated by the power elites' control of your mind. Humans (or some of them) have now evolved culturally beyond your small minded attitudes.
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  1404. Last sentence should be  ". . . in fact in most everyone THEY remain virginal right onto death." Sorry 'bout that.
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  1405. Alex Jordan yes
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  1406. All things are physical.  What people refer to as spiritual is the incredible depth of their own limbic systems.
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  1407. Because it is.
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  1408. @Daniel If you would consider an auto-mechanic who was telling someone that a particular bolt had reverse threads and that by attempting to loosen it you were actually tightening it judgmental?  Then I am certainly judgmental.  But not in the same sense as when someone refers to someones else as a troll or something like that.  Actually that word used to mean something back when there were only newsgroups on line and the WWW consisted of only a couple dozen sites that resembled today's web. You have mistaken what I have been referring to with some idea about healing oneself from some apparent ill, or programming, or perhaps some organic aliment of one type or another.  It isn't.  What I am expressing has nothing to do with fixing oneself.  Not in any guise or by any measure. If you actually followed this thread you should know that I fully concurred when asked if I thought that psychotropic molecules could have a desirable therapeutic effect.  My only issue is that, if one's only experience of higher forms of consciousness is derived from drugs, you should not confuse yourself and others with the idea that drug experiences are similar to "spontaneous" awakening.  I am simply stating that if someone has experience with both, they  know that they are not at all similar except in how intensely distinct they are from the normal walking around state of sleep that people refer to as waking-consciousness.  If you had bothered to  comprehend my posts, they state this quite clearly, over and over. If you simply think I am lying, then you were correct in you initial assessment, you should not have responded.  What's the point.  I don't care how I "come off"  I am just stating which way the threads on a bolt run.  And I say this because this is an area were people can actually tell when they don't know something.  Unlike your, childish attempt at pop-psychology.  A world of misguided souls and such -- which is actually kind of self-fullfilling, because if you believe that, then it is true, for you.  You do realize that if I used the term "awaken spirituality" as you seem to quote, that it must have had  inverted quotes around the term to indicate that there is something inherently dubious about it.  When men refer to  "spirituality", they are actually referring to the profound complexity and capacity to produce ecstasy of their own endocrine and limbic systems.  It's as simple as this: if a person  knows someone who has developed a certain capacity, lets say playing a piano, and they are writing to him about fixing their piano so that it is not cacophonous when they  attempt to play it, but his piano works fine and he has no interest in "fixing" it.  Nothing he has written in the past had anything to do with fixing any piano, his own or his friends. Then because he did not realize that the other fella's piano is not out of tune or in need of some repair,   he calls him an egoist because the man has been talking about the actual experience of making music and the other guy has never been able to make music other than by turning his stereo on.  The guy with the broken piano should at least be able to realize that the fact that his polyphonic friend CAN sit down and play quite well, and had been able to do so for a good number of decades: he should be able to realize that the  guys ability to actually play supersedes any impression he may have that the other guys piano is in need of repair like his own.  Then the guy who thinks his piano is broken accuses the musician of claiming to be able to play with no hands, and says that someone who can actually play without using their hands, or using their body in any way would never say the words that he has said. . . . himself failing to remember that the guy with a working piano had previously told him that the whole idea of playing a broken piano with no hands was ridiculous.  He had obviously forgotten the time the guy with the good piano had taken to explain how people who could not play the piano for one reason or another often made up ridiculous rules by which they imagined that someone who could play would follow and that as it was understood by those with no understanding at all of the reality of this matter, his behavior was inappropriate for a no-handed player with a broken piano.   With this he could almost agree, since they were talking about two different things: except for one little matter: that being: that the guy with the broken piano's piano was not broken, but as long as be believed there was something that needs to be fixed he will enjoy nothing  but absolutely cacophonous sounds coming from his piano as he went at it with his little kit of concepts and explanations, his pop psychology hammer, and his wanna-be mystic saw. The guy who knew his piano was as intact and in tune as it ever needed to be in order to play, also knew that despite his resort to symbolism there was practically zero chance that the difference between playing and thinking about playing would be able to be realized by those who believed something was wrong with their pianos when there wasn't.  And they  would never be able to play as long as they believed they had to fix their piano first. For no particular reason I am adding the following for the children who believe that everyone else is hobbled as they are.  Being that being hobbled comprises the whole of their earthly experience this is certainly understandable. Most people who know anything about what is being referred to by my blabbing, realize whether they are themselves capable of it or not, that a person of any authentic experience in such matters, who has entered a realm of enhanced consciousness, knows full-well that  one of the characteristics of such a quantum leap of consciousness is an end to the perpetual flow of association, of one thought leading to another, even if one is not intentionally thinking about something.  Really there is no need to say much further about it.  If you have real experience of a quantum leap in consciousness, that is, not brought about by external drugs, but by the endopharmic action that results from breakthrough realizations, which are actually not two different things.  That is: if it is something that you can bring about by active consideration and insights it is always attended by the absence of the automatic flow of associative thoughts which most people refer to as "I" or consider their  "I" to be the source of "their thoughts".  If you have actually read my posts and gave it your best to understand them, you may remember that I stated that it is impossible to describe the grande experience of awakening directly, anything you say about it will be misleading at best, and this with people who are ready and dying to awaken, people who have striven to awaken without real success, perhaps for years or decades.  Which is not uncommon at all in traditional religious or so-called spiritual groups of one kind or another. Well the fact remains that even someone who is awake in a cosmic sense , still cannot tell another person anything much about it, the state itself that is.  And they definately cannot tell you how to awaken, or some information that will give you the understanding of how to awaken.  Because being able to do it yourself is imperative.  No one can do it for you, and words, though they can be entertaining, even delightful if someone with a real passion just happens to run into someone who can himself do what they seek. Though no one can tell you how to bring about these ultimate forms of supra conscious experience, they definitely can tell you things that can save you decades, if such is your goal. I am not talking about vague advice here, or something that really can't be done as  explained, and then the failure to achieve such a state falls upon the student, when actually such things could never be done as presented by any number of the various wanna-be mystics and cult leaders who  present themselves to the public as someone who can walk the walk, when in truth they can't eve really talk the talk in any manner that originated with their own insight or awakening, because even their talk is borrowed and not really their own. Bearing this in mind, I would just like to mention, that I could tell someone how to stop their thoughts.  Not for a second or two, but stop them: for as long as they desire or is appropriate in their situation, and then again, whenever they want for as long as they want, if they have fallen asleep again (not bed sleep you understand: waking sleep) that their active mentation devolves into a mechanical procession of associative images which amounts to waking sleep, or your continual need to be distracted from their tedium  of mechanical thought-centric consciousness by seeking entertainment or some sort of diverting stimulus.  Of course if they are sound enough asleep this waking-sleep of the mechanical flow of association will not bother them at all.  They can't even see it for what it is.  See it or be it. Instead of this state of distraction, I can tell you how to enter a state of bliss, with absolutely no thoughts at all.  And for all practical purposes it is effortless.  From within this silence, the storied grande experience of awakening or enlightenment is far more assessable to those with such an intent. There are the type of people who will be bothered by such a statement and automatically react with some childish expression of hostility, but there are also the type who think something along the lines of "If this guy's not full of shit, this is the luckiest day of my life." Which is not really true.  It could have been the luckiest day of their life, if. . . Then again, the net if anything, if full to the brim with second chances in the form of aliases.  So. . . as the blind man said, "We shall see."
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  1409. There is much in what you wrote.  The very best comedians are the back-door men/women of the ah ha experience in our culture.  They often can build a career on pointing out the unexamined obvious, or even the fact that every "thought" that arises in human consciousness is paired at birth with its' own opposite.  Louie CK does a quite entertaining job in this. I made these comments quite some time ago, and to be honest, they never had anything to do with whoever it was that was on Rogan's show -- personally.  It was about exactly what you tuned in to. Since I have, so to say, "experienced" both the states brought on by various psychedelic recreational molecules, and what others have referred to as "enlightenment", I thought I would share my surprise that they were so totally different.  I would even say that the natural awakening is as different from something like LSD or peyote as a full-blown trip is from the normal state of sleep-walking, that we refer to as waking consciousness. Their main similarity is in their intensity, and perhaps in the total inability to communicate anything about them in words, even by means of metaphor.
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  1410. ya know people who don't really know crap about firearms shouldn't pretend to be instant experts based on their knee jerk responses.
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  1411. Yes, but one of the most egregious aspects of what is going on is that all the data is kept. Then if they ever have a reason to care about you, they can review your entire life, probably for half a decade already and see what they can use against you or use to manipulate you. But all in all, I am much less concerned about the CIA and believe most security personnel are motivated by high ideals, though at times their practices go astray. If I were Donald Trump I would be worried about them, they crashed the US economy to get rid of Carter when he downsized the agency and they will find a way to get rid of him too. And good riddance.
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  1412. How stupid are you to think that because someone has a novel name that it is fiction? When you could actually find out if she is a real person quite easily.
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  1413. Yep the average American is screwed, and the reason for it is our wonderful leaders. Anyone with a brain knows that the last people in the world that power should be conferred upon are those who compulsively seek it. It's time to convert to a Confucianism Meritocracy, tests and crisis simulations should choose who best serves Americans, not the whims of a blind manipulated public or those of a power-elite self-chosen by merit of its level of sociopathism as is the present case. That is the choice, get smart, or perish by the thousand cuts dealt from a ultimately suicidal power elite that deals with you by the force of arms (the police).
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  1414. picking the memberries
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  1415. where are the gutless gold diggers who where paid the abortion hush up money? Murdered perhaps?
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  1416. I think that lots of people who die from overdoses are trying to kill themselves because of the transposition of their financial security to wall street and banking power elites. Seems like a good way to commit suicide to me.
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  1417. If you think that's funny, have I got a blockbuster romcom for you, the intelligence of the average Trump supporter, now that is funny. For every IQ point above 65 they need to add 20mg prozac to their dosage to take up the slack on the additional subconscious cognitive dissonance they have stimulated with their ill-considered bigotry
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  1418. One did get the feeling of a "bait and switch", I think he would have acted differently if he had known they had colluded against him at the time. On the other hand corporate media gave him prejudicially low coverage.
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  1419. Why run the most popular politician in the country when you can run the most hated woman? DNC logic turns Orwell inside out. That's why the obvious is so damn obscure if you play their game. Or could our lovely bloody neolibs really be that out of touch? One way or another: you know it's true. And it really doesn't matter. Either way, if you play their game,  you lose.
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  1420. Who is happier than a pig in shit? Little Donald running against private-server-Bengazi-wikileaks-wikileaks-wikileaks- corruption-all-the way-above-the-law-hundred-thousand-a-plate-they're-my-transcripts-and-I'm-going-home Clinton.
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  1421. Follow the money honey. Opium was outlawed because the distillers were losing money in the factory-hell towns of Victorian England. And despite the current new war on on opiods it is way less harmful than alcohol, cheaper, and a much better high to make you forget about the hell that the power elite hold you in. Who will loose money if recreational pot is legal? Prison systems, maybe distillers of hard liquor, but mostly criminal organizations and the banks that wash the billions of dollars in dirty money for a fee. The pussy-grabber-in-chief already has more Goldman Sacks thieves in his gov than any other president ever. What do you think is gonna happen? My prediction is that Trump, his boss Robert Mercer and other right wing billionaires and the sycophants that serve them get a lot richer than their already criminal state of vainglorious self-aggrandizement, and everyone else pays for it. A young Jewish businessman once told me an old Jewish saying and it is ever so true, "Every time someone makes something for nothing, someone else makes nothing for something.
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  1422. Trump is just a ploy to make Clinton seem desirable in relationship to something. Don't fall for it Trump is no threat. The honorable Congressmen will take care of him one way or another. If they throw up the same mindless and heedless resistance as they did to Obama, Little Donald will shoot himself. Just hope he does it before he sets up a new generation of brain-dead conservatives on the court who will perhaps this time start charging a million dollar poll tax which would about equal the damage they did with Citizens United and other NeoCon idiocy that even the people who support them detest, but are just too stupid to connect the dots. All dots lead back to Wall ST./US Treasury that's what's really been united with Citizens United.
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  1423. great idea, if you want to destroy your payload, cause nothing alive will withstand that acceleration and shock and probably not many inert object either, not any sensitive tech thats for sure. Too many Gs
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  1424. drmodestoesq OK  Well it is a cool idea even if the tech to build it will have to be developed.
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  1425. What you have now is a mag-lev train to space not a gun.
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  1426. I think there may be some problems with escape velocity and the energy needed to ascend that slowly?  Also with the fact that their will be huge differences in atmospheric pressure and wind velocity on distant parts of the structure.  The "projectile may have to have a tight fit against the barrel in order to maintain enough pressure to escape yet with such a tight seal the vacuum created in the barrel beneath the projectile when the projectile ascended beyond a certain point would be greater than the energy available to move it higher.
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  1427. Why not use the vacuum of space itself to suck the payload up? ;)
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  1428. Kid Rock is an asshole and always has been.
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  1429. I never believed that Obama would make any real difference with regard to the growing plutocracy and their despicable sycophants.  I do however believe that Bernie is sincere and will at least try, and probably he will try and try again until he makes a difference.  And there is no doubt that Elizabeth Warren should be his running mate.  Then after he serves for eight years she can do the same.
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  1430. Good Show. Figure out how to make Campaign Finance Reform sexy, and save the nation from the criminal scumbags that are now stealing our nation. If you have two brain cells to rub together you can figure out that the funding of politics is nothing but a system of corruption that was put in place to steal as much as possible for as long as possible. A populist movement cannot win as long as the worst among us: the Mercers, Kochs, and Goldman Sachs minions, control everything through a system of corruption that they themselves have devised. Sure it seems like there are a thousand issues: Trump giving away national assets like Putin did to a bunch of rich unevolved assholes who are proud of their predation upon the populace, and there endless red herrings that get all the single issue voters at one anothers' throats: climate change, fundamentalist morons who think that the world is six thousand years old and will end tomorrow, wars in support of private business interests, wholesale surveillance of the citizens, a ridiculous number of psychopaths with badges who believe they are licensed to kill, etc. etc. etc. But I am telling you that Robert Mercer understands that the lynch pin of control is campaign finance, that’s why he funds Citizens United, and Britbart, and put Trump in office by giving him key words found by Cambridge Anaylitica to repeat over and over, in near meaningless lies, that the mindless fools that watch and believe Fox New and similar founts of lies were responding to on a limbic level. He knows that campaign finance is the key to power – do you? Until this is done, the present plutocratic kleptocracy will swiftly recover from any temporary setbacks. Sorry if it boars you. It’s not up to your opinion, this is the game theory, this is the facts. Robert Mercer is using the power of AI against the population and government of the USA to make your voice and vote more meaningless than it already is. Campaign finance reform must be done, not because it is somebodies interest or pet interest, but because it is the only thing that CAN be done to stop this avalanche of shit the one percent is burying us under. Goldman Sachs gave the American public a choice in the last election and that choice was, “Would you rather live in shit or piss.” And thanks to 80,000 rust belt fools who were conned by a New York City conman, America chose shit. And until campaign finance is address and totally deprivatized you will only have a choice between shit and piss in all the coming elections. Unless a real populist like Bernie is nominated (don’t hold your breath) as he should have been, and reforms this madness. The shit we are in now is because of the neoliberal idiots who supported and cheated for Hillary and voted for her in the primary even though all the polls showed Bernie as way more likely to beat Trump than her. Trump knew it, he even said it, Cambridge Anaylitica probably told him, and still the Hillary supporters deny it. As Gurdjieff wrote, “Even God has no defense against stupidity.” Blessings to those of evolving conscience.
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  1431. Bernie is the only potential candidate in both parties that is not owned by international bankers and the finance industry. If things are allowed to just go with the flow, Hillary will win, and nothing will really change, because the fools in the USA have once again chosen bullshit over something real, and shown their rulers once again that it is only money that is listened to. If you want a chance at meaningful change you have a lot of work to do to get Bernie elected, because as it now stands Hillary will win, so get ready for eight more years of the same old lies. Here are the odds the bookies are making on the election. 4/6 in favor of Hillary. This means that for every six dollars you bet you get ten back if you win. 4/1 against Rubio. This means if you bet one dollar you get back five if you win. 8/1 against Trump. If you bet one dollar you get back nine if you win. 8/1 against Sanders. If you bet one dollar you get back nine if Sanders wins.
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  1432. Here is the reason that ATT does not offer high speed internet in low income areas. ATT is part of the government low income internet access program. https://www.att.com/shop/internet/access/#/ Because of this they are obligated to provide the fastest service that they offer in a participants area for either $5 or $10 a month. The rules of being part of this low income program state that the data is unlimited without any price increase for big users and it's speed cannot be throttled to slow it down. They get around the obligations of this program to provide fast internet to the poor by not offering a fast service in low income areas. Here is an example of how they cheat both the government and their customers: My ATT phone line had provided 9MB/second speeds when I was paying a local ISP $60 a month. I switched to ATT access. When the tech came out for the installation he tested the line and said that it was capable of stable operation at 9MB/ second. Which is exactly what I was getting on a line that was leased from ATT by Sonic, who then resold it to Cruzio (a local ISP). When I switched to ATT (who own the line) my speed was slashed by two thirds to 3MB/second (better than dial-up but not by much) even though the line was capable of far faster speeds. ATT does not offer a faster service in my area (which has a lot of trailer courts in it). This is their way of getting around the law that says they are not allowed to throttle my speed or limit my total through-put. Once again I give you the real reason behind the press releases that you read to fill up time. If you were really investigative reporters instead of regurgitating press releases you would be investigating and exposing Robert Mercer's brutal political actions.
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  1433. Hillary = 1% wannabe Trump = conman (don't let your senile parents be fooled into voting for Trump tell them the abortion-hush up is about to be exposed) Bernie = statesman
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  1434. It is difficult to imagine the positive value that having Bernie in the executive office would be when all is said and done. BUT I think they may be parallel to the value that Ralph Nader would have delivered had he made a successful bid. I firmly believe that had Nader been president we would never have been in either of the wars, and that we would not have had a great recession.  The banking corporate elite would have been reigned in before they expressed their real quality and worth as human beings (by driving the nation into financial ruin, and then with the bailout money, paying themselves huge bonuses -- in full view of the public eye -- which gives you a true idea of what they think of the power {and attention spans} of average Americans.) I can only feel that Bernie will do even better.  His refusal to run third party proved to me that he was an even better candidate than Ralph. There is a little ray of sunlight, and it is shining right on the linchpin that hold us all in thrall to a hideous machine of death, and the unavoidable self-destruction that a continuation of business-as-usual, represents. Though as unsexy and boring as the corporate owned media can make it, despite a spate of meaningless red herrings, the public is becoming aware that campaign finance reform is the ONLY issue that can effectively address the root of all problems, because it is the root of how, though unelected and beyond public scrutiny, the one percent continue to own and rule us, and profit by our misfortunes, which are of their knowing design. They rule a kingdom of financial coercion and outright violence, which is quickly becoming a police state. Register Democrat and vote for Bernie. That is the only election there will be in 16. Whoever wins the Democratic Primary will have to beat Bush and I think either of them can do that. But I believe that Hillary has a lot of grist for the republican Swift-Boat mill, that Bernie doesn't.  They will only have the fear they can inspire in those who are afraid to try something that is not self-victimizing.  Which the Republican are pretty good at.  There is no question, IMHO, that Bernie can beat any of the Republicans, but can he beat Hillary? If she were any kind of person she would either step aside or offer to run for vice-president.  She's smart, she must know that this is what would be best for the country.  But with Hillary, it's all about Hillary, and with Bernie, . . . eh, . . . not so much. If he doesn't win, it can only be chalked up to the partiality, ignorance, and underhandedness of the Democrat insiders themselves. Can we really afford to hand the bully-pulpit over to Goldman Sax and accomplices yet again, for another eight years?  Can civilization endure another decade of having banking criminals in control" They will pillage with glee, and take as much as you will let them steal.  All they need to do is change a law here and there, what's the problem, most of the Congressmen work for them. Nobody will even read it till long after it passes. If Bernie can win that is just the smallest ingress into a whole world of corruption and power.  It will be very much up to the rest of us to sustain an effort to bring the-long-view to a government that moves from crisis to crisis, and in which, though everyone is talking, only money is heard.
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  1435. What about Trump's son bragging about the endless backing of Russian money that their company had? What about the Russian mafia buying Trump apartments for sky high prices? What about Trump and the Oligarch money?
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  1436. Good Show. Figure out how to make Campaign Finance Reform sexy, and save the nation from the criminal scumbags that are now stealing our nation. If you have two brain cells to rub together you can figure out that the funding of politics is nothing but a system of corruption that was put in place to steal as much as possible for as long as possible. A populist movement cannot win as long as the worst among us: the Mercers, Kochs, and Goldman Sachs minions, control everything through a system of corruption that they themselves have devised. Sure it seems like there are a thousand issues: Trump giving away national assets like Putin did to a bunch of rich unevolved assholes who are proud of their predation upon the populace, and there endless red herrings that get all the single issue voters at one another's throats: climate change, fundamentalist morons who think that the world is six thousand years old and will end tomorrow, wars in support of private business interests, wholesale surveillance of the citizens, a ridiculous number of psychopaths with badges who believe they are licensed to kill, etc. etc. etc. But I am telling you that Robert Mercer understands that the lynch pin of control is campaign finance, that’s why he funds Citizens United, and Britbart, and put Trump in office by giving him key words found by Cambridge Anaylitics to repeat over and over, in near meaningless lies, that the mindless fools that watch and believe Fox New and similar founts of lies were responding to on a limbic level. He knows that campaign finance is the key to power – do you? Until this is done, the present plutocratic kleptocracy will swiftly recover from any temporary setbacks. Sorry if it boars you. It’s not up to your opinion, this is the game theory, this is the facts. Robert Mercer is using the power of AI against the population and government of the USA to make your voice and vote more meaningless than it already is. Campaign finance reform must be done, not because it is somebodies interest or pet interest, but because it is the only thing that CAN be done to stop this avalanche of shit the one percent is burying us under. Goldman Sachs gave the American public a choice in the last election and that choice was, “Would you rather live in shit or piss.” And thanks to 80,000 rust belt fools who were conned by a New York City conman, America chose shit. And until campaign finance is address and totally deprivatized you will only have a choice between shit and piss in all the coming elections. Unless a real populist like Bernie is nominated (don’t hold your breath) as he should have been, and reforms this madness. The shit we are in now is because of the neoliberal idiots who supported and cheated for Hillary and voted for her in the primary even though all the polls showed Bernie as way more likely to beat Trump than her. Trump knew it, he even said it, Cambridge Anaylitica probably told him, and still the Hillary supporters deny it. As Gurdjieff wrote, “Even God has no defense against stupidity. Blessings to those of evolving conscience.
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  1437. Pussy is good, but for most guys it comes with attachments. Not all of which are as fine as good pussy. Like the actual intellectual and moral development of the typical gold digger predating some introverted nerd with good future prospects. I see it all the time in silicon beach. That's what life is for them, paying the same hooker for the rest of their life or half of their funds. If you go to one of the parties of the upper middle class social climbers, it is so boring you feel like slashing your wrists within ten minutes. They talk about their houses and their boats, sometimes their investments, or other prestigious possessions. And you can see the hormones flowing in them, the dopamine lighting them up when they think they are impressing others with their stuff. Soooo boring -- but you gotta consider the source -- consensus corporate inspired subjective reality with no actual effort to be self-aware, other than pedestrian self-conscientiousness and sense of status.
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  1438. How can a person take d'Escoto seriously, when without batting an eye he claims that the USA is . . . "The most war mongering country in the history of mankind." Perhaps he is unfamiliar with the history of, Assyria, the attacks of "The Sea People", Macedonia and Greece under Alexander, Attilla and his Hun buds, The Mongolian conquest of the middle east and China, Rome, The Persian Empire, Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan in China and the South Pacific, The Muslim conquest of the middle east and North Africa, The viking raids and conquests, The Aztecs predations, the soviet genocide of 7 million Ukrainians in a little over a year (the genocide record), the Turkish genocide of the Armenians and Greeks and Kurds etc. etc.. One could go on for pages, especially if one included smaller but extremely hostile and aggressive nations and groups that were continually at war with most of their neighbors to the point were war became the norm, like was the case with many native peoples in both Americas and elsewhere. I am sure some anti-American apologist will point out that the recent aggression of the USA is of a different nature than the aforementioned. And they would be incorrect.
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  1439. Михаил Давыдов I understand that their food was stolen by your fearless leader and that thousand that were starving but still breathing were thrown into mass graves.  I understand that the Russian people were so fearless that they put up with mad men ruling them throughout their entire history.  And nothing has changed. 
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  1440.  @60degreelobwedge82  Yeh the new trend in Russian radar is you don't turn them on if you want them to continue working. See those F16s ? . . . No you don't you see the radar profile of a F16 projected by a loitering ARM launching drone. Bang, your dead. Real f16s to follow.
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  1441. That is not what the word introspect means or how it is used.
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  1442. It wasn't "wiped out" the last people who sold high have it.
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  1443. People from different places are not really all that different if you ignore the superficial, or the apparent issues. Take for instance the Trump supporters that are frequently interviewed for comic effect and the middle aged Russian Putin supporters interviewed on the streets of Russian cities. They are exactly the same people. They have strong passionate beliefs in a fantasy that exists only in the heads of the credulous and nowhere else in the universe. I love to see the inteviews, however every time you or some other young person begins to pontificate at length about what is obvious to anyone outside of one of these magical cults, it really makes me wonder who you are addressing: six year olds perhaps (they are all playing games that have captured their nervous systems) trump supporters (they are not listening to you)? Those are the only two groups that I can imagine benefiting from such extensive explanations of the obvious. I personally would like the interviews much more without the narratives in between. They come of as preachy and boring.
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  1444. . . . Superficial and near delusional analysis.
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  1445.  @PossessedPotatoBird  More superficial near delusional analysis.
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  1446. type casting
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  1447.  @MrBoDiggety  Spoken like an East German pessimist.
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  1448. @Men In Black East Germany's did.
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  1449. The facts are plan and simple: diesel exhaust is carcinogenic. For all the diesel drivers out there: that means it causes cancer. Idiots.
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  1450. Diesel exhaust is not only toxic it is carcinogenic. But that probably doesn't matter to you. And some of us know why.
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  1451.  @johnzabroski5396  He also built the most powerful super computer on earth, and hardly anyone outside of Tesla stock owners know it.
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  1452.  @dogbreath6974  Anyone with a plaid that wants to.
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  1453.  @Mercury.S.  Wrong: he has no push back because the power elite who actually runs everything sees the possibility of both taking over and not paying taxes on their fortunes.
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  1454. This comment is incongruent with reality. But I understand. Musk created wealth he did not take it from the homeless. Most of his wealth came from taking financial risks and putting his own money all in on tech that others thought foolish. And most of it came from investors and from people with middle to upper incomes Leroy. Don't believe the lies. Commercial media has been trying to coerce Musk into paying the big ad buck like the other OEMs. Like GM in 2020 spent 2.2 billion dollars on ads. So they lie on a daily basis, probably like you, to try to force Tesla to spend money with them to curtail the continual negative spin and lies. Like yours.
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  1455. An idiot for sure, and the fool who believes him.
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  1456. I guess using the CSE to directly run a turbine or sterling engine or something, that runs a generator and just using battery storage is too simple. You could just calibrate the energy needed for the turbine by the number of mirrors you install, and increase or decrease it during the day by turning mirrors in and out of focus. Get rid of the salt, plumbing, storage tanks, and other complexities.
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  1457.  @hoilst265 Probably never heard of it. Like most people.
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  1458.  @jedclampett7705 Guess their not "losers and suckers" like the Americans that died during D-day. /s
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  1459.  @greywolf7422  Nice comment. I would say that the Constitutional Republic of the USA has buffered revolutionary roots, mostly because the framers of the constitiution were by and large pragmatic classicists and liberals in the real sense of the word.
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  1460. Police need to be reigned in. No respect, above the law, lard-heads.
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  1461. Bernie can win, but he has to dispel the belief that he will be a force for open boarders. Bidden is too compromised. But don't worry your little head, no matter who wins, they will be owned by the big money boys. Money out of campaigns is the lynch pin. Corruption is the rule until then.
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  1462.  @lo1234-w9r  That's not what the experts say about the Teslas made in the the last few years. Fit and finish as good or better is the average opinion. But then who am I to argue with outdated info?
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  1463.  @oldscratch3535  So you keep an old Honda for the one day a decade you could need it, and drive something more intelligent for everyday carry.
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  1464.  @CS-vw3db  You won"t have to wait long, many have already done seen.
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  1465.  @potowiskey3477  Your "normal" vehicle (the fact that you call ICE vehicle normal is ridiculous, and your great granddaddy probably said the same thing about his "normal" horse: compared to your Rube Goldberg whirlygig ICE at less than 40% efficiency compared to over 90% for an EV. With over five hundred moving parts in it's engine for every moving part in an electric motor. The facts are that hybrid vehicles catch fire the most per 100k, gas vehicle are second per 100k and EV are a distant third per 100k. Now you have the facts. Not that they will do you any good. And FYI concrete does not melt. When exposed to high temperatures, such as in a fire, concrete undergoes what’s known as thermal spalling. This occurs when the moisture inside the concrete rapidly turns to steam and causes the surface layer to flake off, leading to structural damage. So basically in your one incomplete sentence you are wrong about everything you wrote.
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  1466. EVs don't work in winter? Tell it to Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DbRyeZNRk
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  1467. China is literally surrounded by countries that are antagonistic toward it. The USA will contain China until it's population bomb catches up with it then it will settle into a less aggressive stature.
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  1468. If Americans prove to the world once more that they are stupid enough to elect a conman, it may be a good day for Iran and Russia, but it will be a very sad day for Ukraine and anyone with half a brain.
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  1469. Yeah good job VW. Good job giving hundreds of millions of dollars to fake environmental groups to delay the opening of Tesla Giga Berlin. Still acting like the mafia and the misanthropes they are.
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  1470. Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514&t=672s Medicare for those who want it: more expensive than present disfunctional system. . . Buttieggie wrong again, supporters on the wrong side of history, Hillary all over again.
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  1471.  Happy New Year 🇺🇸  Typical latent comment. . .
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  1472.  @krzywygeneral  Canada has its own problems, but it does seem more ethical than the USA, at least for now.
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  1473. It was known and reported on. I can't believe anyone would buy such a car.
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  1474. You know what? OK, I don't really expect a response to that, and I don't have any reason at all to write this here except that I just actually realized it and happened to have this on the screen. I have the best fucken story. . . . I mean of all, all the political theories, and cosmologies, and economic or archeological, even faerie tales and myths, SiFi even. I have the best fucken one, and I never told it to anyone -- even myself. This is fucken hilarious.
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  1475. Ha, in China Tesla is considered the best in every regard and they outsell every Chinese EV. The head of XPENG was astonished when he utilized Tesla FSD.
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  1476. We should all just listen to the best president of all time and do exactly what he says. Because it's obvious from how the people around him behave that he is the best and has a real handle on the reality of the situation. I mean any man with his name on buildings all over the world must be a great leader. Stop all the bitching and fact checking and line up and applaud him and watch everything he does and listen to every thing he says. He is so fascinating and not like all you dumb experts and intellectuals, he is entertaining like a slow motion train wreck. And like the pope he cannot be wrong. Actually he is every bit a real life super-hero. He is a very stable genius and all the tuff people support him. And they have guns and the democrats mostly don't. Yeh Trump, best president ever, and the savior of the USA. And stop laughing at his hair and fake tan, he is supposed to look his best he is the spokes-model for the USA. Trump totally represents us and theAmericans who voted him in are really smart and the envy of the world. Plus he has the best ratings. So: all you smart asses out there just remember whatever you do, do not laugh in this god-like mans face, no matter what he says. You just do not have the superior IQ like him, and don't understand how deeply profound his statements are, and that they are both earnest and sarcastic at the same time. He is a quantum president and his statements only mean what he says in retrospect like Schrodinger's cat statements. He is magic, almost like Jesus or Hitler, and if you openly laugh at him, he will punish us by going away. So don't laugh in his face when you are with him in person, not that anyone near him has the balls or ovaries to do it anyway. A point he proves everyday, you delightful scallywags and misanthropic sycophants. Good job, how did we ever deserved the wonderful leaders we have. Without you guys we would really be hard pressed to find a war worth fighting and that would hurt the economy.
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  1477.  @rb032682  You are living proof of my statements. You understood nothing and twisted everything into a charged rationalization. Yet there is no doubt that you believe that your automatic emotional reaction is based in some kind of clear sight. How common. An exact illustration of the problem believing it is the solution. You need to up your reading comprehension because you are blind to anything that does not fit into your childish dichotomies and you are unaware of the origins of your charged opinions. Everyone has charged opinions. Everyone believes they are right and special. No one is.
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  1478.  @rb032682  Why have you failed to understand one thing that I have written, and instead prceeded to respond to things you only imagine to be contained in my statements? Could it be the inability on your part to see anything outside of the quite mechanical functions that your so-called positions are based upon? Your comments are nothing but rehetoric and ad hominem. And they are directed at a fantasy you constructed in your wee mind so you could vent your emotional ickor. This is all fine if you want to go nowhere and understand nothing. Which is plainly your goal. Your lack of comprehension of the written word is profound and your excitablilty and response to your own projected delusions is childish to say the least.
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  1479.  @rb032682  Your question makes absolutely no sense, but tell me, why is that?
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  1480.  @emhu2594  So you lack any capability to understand any concepts that step outside of the left-right evil-good paradigm. You are in massive company. Try to comprehend what you read before you respond.
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  1481.  @larryc1616  That doesn't keep Texans from buying or owning Teslas, just from having them delivered in Texas, for now. That will change, because even for Texas, it is too stupid and underhanded.
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  1482. To hurt Tesla.
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  1483. If you are gonna swtich to green energy you NEED litihium mines somewhere, and Nevada is he best place for Tesla. America needs domestic lthium mines to insure continual uninterrupted domestic production safe from geopolitical and natural interruptions. Much better than driving ICVs.
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  1484. Some people may wonder why cops can literally get away with murder (and rape) and all manner of crimes that would have the average American behind bars or executed by the state. The reason is simple. When the power elite order the scumbag sycophants that protect them and their property, to fire upon protestors, or those who are involved in acts of civil disobedience because they had enough of the corruption and criminal deeds of the leaders that the power elite pick to enact the legislation that makes their crimes legal, they do not want them to hesitate because they have a fear of justice. They want them to kill them or brutalize them without fear of reprisal. Bernie, Liz, and Tulsi are the only hopefuls that have a handle on this, and remain unco-opted by the thieves and murderers who rules us. When Bernie crushes Trump, that is only the beginning of the fight for justice and equality for all. And all would include the thieving bastards in congress and their owners like Mercer and Koch.
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  1485. Yep Charlie the end of polio in my lifetime was just a stupid medical practice that never did anything but harm. You make the Trumptards look intelligent. Oops, I apologize, it was difficult to tell that you were being ironic. You should give an irony warning when you are writing stupid shit to be funny.
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  1486. Strange as it may seem to you. Prisoners do stay in prison pretty much voluntarily. Except for super max of course. That's where they keep the ones who won't stay voluntarily. They stay because of the repercussions if they leave, not because of the walls, or fences as is more likely the case. And even stranger as this may seem to you many prisoners like being in prison, it's an adrenaline rush that they really miss on the outside. That's why there is so much recidivism. Only crime or war equal the adrenaline of a survival situation in a cage.
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  1487.  Absolutely Barbaric  When a similar rumor was circulated about Rep. Nancy Pelosi in February 2018, the purveyors of that misinformation used a photograph of Pelosi’s San Francisco neighborhood, but not one of her actual house. In this case it appears the image actually used a photograph of a property owned by Pelosi (although we aren’t entirely sure). Regardless, it’s unlikely that the pictured “wall” provides any significant security, as it is only a foot or two high. Furthermore, the largely decorative wall only covers the entrance and does not surround the entire property. See what happens when you treat your cult leaders tweets as facts. You end up a fool.
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  1488. If you think the carnivore diet is good for you, you are completely immune to actual scientific evidence and have been duped by your meat industry supporters.
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  1489.  @Fafnd  And like him or not Bill Marher lost his network show Politically Incorrect for merely saying that the hijackers were not cowards.
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  1490. Hard to believe this show is actually a thing in Australia, what a bunch of dopes.
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  1491.  @harpo345  Like all jerks you assume you know more than you do. Like where someone you don't know gets their info about current events. The only think hard-headed around here is your head. Some people are just too stupid to realize how dumb they are.
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  1492. That is usually figured with a 150lb body weight. In contrast the LD50 for caffeine is .5 grams. Think about it. It's all in the dosage that turns a useful substance into a poison. In areas where coca leaves are chewed for a lift there is no cocaine problem yet it is widely used.
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  1493. My bet is that this dude is shorting Tesla stock.
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  1494. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq82CKp_ToM
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  1495. 2:21 This statement made the entire video. "This is Engineering Explained where we use math to find definitive answers to questions no body really cares about." True, I really care more what you final conclusion is about supercharging a MIata.
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  1496. Pushing those who suffer chronic pain from a doctors care to the underground heroin market is not an unintended consequence of short-sighted legislation. The people who brought and pushed through the reforms to pain med availability were fully aware what the consequences would be.  A primer in clear thinking follows: Who controls the government? Those who provide the candidates for office with the money necessary to be elected. Who provides this money?  Mostly the financial and banking industries and a few very rich families that make massive political contributions in order to buy the legislation they want.If you haven't noticed it doesn't matter one bit whether a democrat of republican wins any particular election in the US. In either case the same people are still calling the shots. And they basically operate out of the reptilian brain. Who would profit from pushing those dependent on opioids into buying illegal drugs? These same banking interests. Why is that so? Who do you think launders (20 -50% ) and invests the billions of dollars made by the major criminal organizations? When these changes were open to discussion before they were put through, expert after expert testified that exactly what has happened would happen: suicide, and an illegal drug epidemic. It may seem harsh, but personally I do not care one bit about the individuals people who die from drug use. I think it is stupid to continually revive and care for those who OD. Let them die, it's an easy way to go, in many cases death by opioids is like an angel of mercy from their horrendous lives and act as a sort of Darwinian disposal method for society as a whole. Of course if these drugs were decriminalized and the people were actually cared about by our society they could easily live a normal life while using. In fact the example of Portugal (and other countries that take reality into consideration) have proven that their policies actually causes a decrease in drug use. Even the use of marijuana has decreased among teenagers in the Netherlands since it was legalized, and eventually the same will happen in the states in the USA that have same laws concerning it. It just won't be cool because it isn't edgy any longer and doesn't represent a revolutionary or risky act.
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  1497. Kudos to Biden for taking the first step to free up the manufacture of covid vaccines. And to the front line workers in the presently hopless situation in India. And to ALL the workers at Tesla which presently represents the best actual work being done to decelerate global warming, and to the geniuses at spaceX for their brilliant work and progress on proofing mankind against the next extinction event. And to Edward Snowden and those other fearless whistleblowers who gave up everything to reveal the attrocities enacted in the names of all Americans without their knowledge or consent. A better world is possible. Humanities golden future lies among the stars with room and endless resources for all. It will happen.
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  1498. @Terminator X My only interface with Italian organizational nomenclature is with the contemporary Slow Foods Convivium, and my only comment is "Yum!"
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  1499. I would say our respective ideation of what "within reach" means diverge considerably. I will not hold my breath.
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  1500.  @johndair2116 . . . "As a concept-stage play, the outfit’s High-Content Silicon and Li Metal Anode Cell technology is three years to five years away from critical “D-sample testing,” as InvestorPlace’s Ian Bezek recently noted. And if everything goes as planned through 2025, only then will SLDP investors see quarterly reports sporting revenue as its commercial product debuts. Hope it goes well for them. But, I consider the next two years as critical, so at this point that's not for me. Unless it dips below $5 then I would take a small speculative position. I see an inevitable massive shortage of raw materials for battery chemistries that are already in commercial production as the main area of interest, . . . and mined ag products.
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  1501. A common statement from people who actually own Teslas as opposed to the S for brains Ludites who short sell the stock.
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  1502. A real "broader" historical perspective is that all humans have the capacity to enact authoritarian and draconian behaviors. The Standford experiment proved this beyond a doubt. All so-called races have been brutal to others and one another. The so-called native peoples almost all have done the same thing. Some of them in a manner more horrible than most would believe. A documentary could only really be objective and impartial if it also includes the unbelieveably evil that the American Indian tribes did to each other. The only thing they lacked is the capacity that the Europeans had.
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  1503.  @Rhythmicons  You only think it is self-refuting because you fail to distinguish between the history that is actually known, such as certain events that are accurately detailed in primary sources such as accounting records, etc, and the rationalized narratives used to evoke romatic and heroic images, such as are used by all cultures for egocentric reflection and the establishment of cultural identities.
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  1504. BYD beat Tesla sales, for one quarter. For the year Tesla was ahead. Tesla profit margin was 11% last year. BYD was about half that. So if you only count the final quater BYD did "catch up". Now when you look at the tech and quality of the cars themselves it is a different story. BYD has a long way to go, and when they get there, Tesla will be further ahead than now. Do not believe anything you see about Tesla on commercial news. Tesla does not pay for commercials. The "news" especially the financial "news" is not there to inform you. It is there to sell ad space/time so it runs anything that attracts clicks/views. They are continually attempting to shake down Tesla for ad dollars, which can be in the multiple billions per year (GM 2.2 billion 2020) and they don't mind lying to attempt to get Tesla to anti up. They do it on a daily bases, usually many times per day. The majority of negative comments on social media are fromm union shills, short sellers (55 billion lost shorting Tesla so far) dinocar OEMs who can't compete and blame a lack of public interest, those invested in dealerships, gas and oil, service centers, parts OEM (all tiers) your local mechanic, and a hoard of ludites: who can't understand the difference between over 90% efficiency in a system and 40%, have never driven an EV, like dragging a useless ton of iron around with them in the pickup they never actually use as a pickup, and when they do, it could have been done using the trunk of a sedan, and like the fact that the sound of their damaged muffler or low brain cell exhaust mod makes them sound like a big lion, because it is the only segment of their life where they have even the illusion of being powerful.
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  1505.  cathie3874  Doesn't matter to me. I own BYD. But you are comparing BYD to a car that is way ahead in tech and quality. Guess what is the number one selling car model in China? Hint: same as the best selling car in the world. And FYI you are not a prophet and like everyone else, you do not know the future. And apparently in your case you don't even know what you know and what you don't know in the present. When the 25k model 2 rolls out -- remember your prophecy -- it may cause you a bit of cognitive dissonance, which is kind of a hopeful sign in a troll.
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  1506.  @edwardtan8307  They are already doing that, but in a more intelligent way. Every Tesla on the road with FSD is recording data, and especially date of interventions. This date is being used to train the AI that actually drives the cars. When the interventions hit virtual zero, it will have been tested and already proven everywhere, not in a fenced area.
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  1507. Show this to your moderate friends!!!                    Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514
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  1508. You are delusional, and misinformed.
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  1509. Don't say that too loud, if the Fed thinks that workers will be needed they will continue to screw the pooch.
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  1510. Ok, you proved you have no idea what you are talking about even though the facts that prove you wrong are readily available. People in the US want Tesla EVs so bad that they are sold out months in advance. How does that fact square with your fictional right wing belief?
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  1511. Tesla: fire rocket boost. Where did those guys go. . . oh back there huh?
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  1512.  @sandrahart6195  Lots of bargains without lead paint, silly girl.
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  1513. I know, right. This comes of as infantile, preachy, and exactly what the Trump delusionist describe as woke, which is basically anything more morally upright than mindlessly following the silverback.
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  1514. @Edward Fleming They would be cut out by legitimate concerns that went into business. And legalization would take 95% of the profit out of the whole deal. 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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  1515. Progressives that support allowing people who claim asylum status, to enter the USA and then disappear and never show up for a hearing, are insuring a bounce-back into an increase, in the ever increasing populist reactionary movements on the right, that are populated largely by those who are incapable intellectually, of understanding that it is the effect of massively over-concentrated capital, that has set the torch to their cultural and economic expectations, not some socialist fantasy that they are able to derive from the actions of the knee-jerk liberals who are as equally out of touch with reality, and a true historic narrative, as are their counterparts on the extremist right.
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  1516. addendum: In my personal opinion it is not the concentration of capital alone that is at fault for destroying many of these traditional American expectations, for certainly one billion dollars can accomplish an infinity of purposes compared to a billion separate dollars held by a billion different entities, but the concentration of wealth along with the concentration of the physical and cultural benefits provided by concentrated capital: that is the anansian culprit here.
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  1517. My reaction is. . . . and. . . History is full of acts of all kinds. For centuries Catholics and Protestants slaughtered and burned each other. Maybe I should waste time feeling bad about that. I don't believe the USA is either terrible or particularly great (outside of its military might). In fact the entire human race, pretty much sucks and there are assholes to be found everywhere. The fact that the human race has not come up with a nurturing form of government from which humanity could launch upon it's golden destiny is mainly due to a lack of imagination and intelligence. Oh and the will to overcome the continual diversions that capitalism sells us so that we can overcome our monstrous boredom with the mundane operations of what we laughingly refer to as "our minds".
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  1518. Yes we will never get to a pre Mongol invasion world again -- silly boys.
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  1519. Find yourself a good source of English poppy seeds and make tea. You will be able to reduce your dosage a little at a time over long term without strong withdrawal. Be careful, if you find good organic seed you will be able to OD on them. Go slow to titrate your dosage until you find out how strong they are. Remember people have OD on poppy seed tea, but it is legal, for now. They contain over twenty different opioids, and some of them are very long lasting, like methadone. You will not have to drink it everyday because it lasts so long, though you may not feel high for days, you will be comfortable if you do it right. And if you really desire to stop, it will help you avoid the pain.
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  1520. A smarter food choice based on science would be to abandon alcoholic beverages entirely as they a toxic to every cell in your body and also carcinogenic. How are we to feel when the experts presented starts the interview with the confession that their behavior is in stark contrast to the apparent focus of the interview? Much knowledge and little being does not equal understanding.
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  1521. Nope, they want to jail him for his crimes, and for being the biggest asshat in the universe.
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  1522. Mega packs are for local energy storage not transmission to distant areas. That does not mean that energy that is generated by green means is not just as transmissible as that produced by hydro. The dams in Quebec sell electricity to New York and there is nothing different about electricity generated by solar or wind as far as transmission is concerned. You are comparing apples and oranges, battery packs are for local storage not transmission.
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  1523.  @FilosSofo  "perfect news" -- "perfect phone call" -- guess it depends on what you want to occupy your neurons. Nothing new here for me. No news: so to speak. In pop culture in America people are now extolling big fat butts. Beauty is in the eye of the storm, I mean beholder. . . .
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  1524.  @Outstanding_Gal  Maybe, maybe not. In either case: I couldn't care less.
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  1525.  @Outstanding_Gal  OK, sure. . . important point.
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  1526.  @mrswagaswaga  Man, old Soc must be rolling in his grave. I did love him once. Many an afternoon at about the age of thirteen, sitting in the town park, back against my favorite tree, reading Plato. Guess kids don't have much of a chance of having that much space in their lives anymore, heads stuck in their phones and such. I simply made the conjecture that it must be a slow news day. And if you make the correct inference, the fact that true beauty is a matter of what a person has made of themselves as a human, not what their genetic code dictated, is not really new. So it may be entertaining, heartwarming, but I am already quite entertained and heartwarmed. I mean Socrates himself was considered ugly, yet so beautiful in life, and his death, that it echos across the ages despite his obvious erroneous belief that reason could describe reality without reference to empirical data. No big deal, I wasn't criticizing the channel I watch it frequently. It's almost as good as the French English one.
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  1527.  @mrswagaswaga  I like your playlists and am listening to Hilda right now.👍
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  1528. Yep people are just lining up to become ruled by the totally authoritarian system in China: Tibet, Hong Kong, Taiwan, those little islands that Japan owns, they all want to be part of it.
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  1529.  tad562  Oh no. . .
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  1530.  Edwin Horan  Seems like it worked out better then what they had before the code, at least for a while. What's you point: that systems gradually devolve as they are taken over by scumbags? My own preference is a neoconfusian techno-meritocracy, were the people don't vote for people, they vote for the components of tests that people must pass to gain certain positions. Test that are open to everyone at all times and if they score highest they are part of the next government upgrade.
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  1531.  @obsidianstatue  Yep, got the js mixed up.
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  1532. So should they not start mining lithium in Nevada? If so, how will Tesla build all those environmentally friendly electric vehicles?
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  1533. I started out liking Warren, but every time she insults the intelligence of her audience an makes some intentionally duplicitous statement as she claws at any hope that pops above the dismal sea of hypocrisy that is of her own making -- I like her less. At this point I despise her.
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  1534.  @thomaz1963  China has recently opened up more coal power plants than ever before.
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  1535. As much as this sucks, this is the very issue that the Democrats or a third party can lose the next election on. Most American simply believe that you should not enter the US illegally. If a party support the illegal entry of the USA they will lose the next election. This will happen no matter the morality of such government actions.
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  1536.  @Chainyanker007  And at least for the present I have seen reports that BYD EVs are only profitable because of Chinese government incentives. I know that their buses that are made in CA have restrictions that native companies do not have. Tesla has the highest brand loyalty of any OEM, Mercedes is second, but the distinction that owners find in their Teslas is something that so far, most who are critical but have never even driven a Tesla do not really have any comprehension of.
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  1537. Truth is not hate speech. Your intolerant censorship is an act of denial and hatred. What a bunch of hypocrites.
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  1538.  @judewarner1536  Have to mostly agree with your comment. I think you may be right about the peril of our democracy. I don't remember who made the prediction, but some political pundit put forth the prediction that the electorate would do exactly what it has, swing wildly between the two apparent factions of left and right. They said that the initial Trump victory would be followed by a democratic victory with the parties becoming more and more polarized. They finished their prediction by stating that if the Trump movement came back to win in 24 it would be the advent of the end of democracy. Well, as the blind man said, "We shall see.". . .
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  1539.  @judewarner1536 Have to mostly agree with your comment. I think you may be right about the peril to our democracy. I don't remember who made the prediction, but some political pundit put forth the prediction that the electorate would do exactly what it has, swing wildly between the two apparent factions of left and right. They said that the initial Trump victory would be followed by a democratic victory with the parties becoming more and more polarized. They finished their prediction by stating that if the Trump movement came back to win in 24 it would be the advent of the end of democracy. Well, as the blind man said, "We shall see.". . .
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  1540. Dude the fake news story of the pony-for-a-handjob, came out the same day as a monumental put sweep came due, Tesla fell over 50 that day to put the whales who were in on the scam in the money. Quite a co-winky dink aye?
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  1541.  @Ai-dz7ys  Your "facts" are totally incorrect and just what a dying ice OEM would want you to believe. Tesla does not advertise. The ICE OEMs do, to the tune of billions of dollars each per year. Most people assume that the purpose of the media, especially financial media is to inform them. It is not. The purpose of the media is to sell ad space/time. So selling you a bill of goods about Tesla is just a way to bludgeon Tesla into paying the ad vig. Hasn't worked too well. +
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  1542.  @Thai-Tanic.  This was no secret. Tesla's master plan has always been available.
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  1543.  @Beaniexa  Such simple old tech, you would think that anyone could make an effective EV. But only one company can. If you are really interested (doubtful) there are many tear downs of Teslas on YOuTube. Then you can actually learn something instead of assuming you already know
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  1544.  @denisturcott5131  You are believing lies. Gas cars are much much more likely to go up in flames than an EV and hybrids are even worse. This is according to the insurance stats, not your fantasy conclusion.
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  1545. If you believe anything reported on Fox you are a friggin idiot.
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  1546. You have outdone yourself on this one. But I am still wondering if considering your experience you would recommend supercharging my 97' Miata? Or should I just trade it for a model 3?
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  1547.  @Msenlightened1  And now the shoe is on the other foot. Isn't is amazing how abused peoples, just like abused children, will grow up and abuse those they hold power over? Ask a Palestinian about it.
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  1548.  @ameliacorin7383  Absolutely, and we should know that. Just as the Stanford Prisoner Experiment should tell us everything we need to know about giving people authority and uniforms and weapons and telling them to enforce order. Even when they know it's an act they become extremely abusive.
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  1549. NorthVolt is building battery factories all over Europe. LG in Canada and USA. Panasonic. etc.
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  1550. This came up in my feed, real fake news about a fake thing "royalty". I am not going to listen to this, I never listen to any nonsense about the royals scam that still persists. However upon reading the headline of this video I could not not comment on the fact that it is a quite amusing oxymoron: the "working royals" part anyhow.
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  1551.  @_PatrickO  Not to mention the minor fact that neither VW, Porsche, or Audi, or even any of their exotic monikers have anything that it the equal of even the most modest Tesla -- engineering wise. And while they try to catch up, Teasla pulls further ahead.
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  1552. Good choice. When they bring the active noise cancelling to the 3 and the structural battery pack, it will be hard to beat.
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  1553. Tesla is hiring in Germany.
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  1554.  @george2113  Yeah that makes sense. Musk haters are like Trump supporters -- they think their emotions equal facts.
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  1555.  @keithsmith9054  There's German and there's Germanic. This dude looks like one but not the other. The archetypal traits ascribed to Germans are derived from past norms and traits of the Germanic genetics, not the nationality. Most northern Europeans are Germanic genetically. Of course it is politically incorrect to make such distinctions: so I won't.
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  1556. One is not the same as "one by one".
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  1557. Just another instance of Chat GPT getting it wrong. And such instances are plentiful. The reification of conscious awareness into a noun is an illusion.
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  1558. No bro Musk said he was not going to give Trump any money.
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  1559. Well you said it, and your simplistic solution is just dumb and would not work.
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  1560. The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources, cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The most important thing you can do as an individual to address climate change is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, your grandchildren will be forced to determine whether to eat their babies to survive a few more weeks when crops fail globally. Your choice, indulge your blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered mindless opinions, or leave future generations an earth worth living on. Or you can just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things like Bezo's money and ignore the situation until it is beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of you, even if convinced of the reality of the global climate situation will go on with your rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are you a rational moral being, or a mad machine that really has no control over yourself?
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  1561. Yep Peter is pretty much either just a lot dumber than he seems or a oil boys shill. The facts are undeniable, both in favor of green and in support of the human contribution to climate change.
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  1562. Or perhaps better, find out if you can buy the company that is offering this, the art world values may be great for something you see in a museum, but the NY art scene and others is almost totally bullshit. If your teenager could do it at home don't buy it, it's all perception. Like thinking that a guitar that was used by Hendrix is worth more than one used by Johnny Rotten, just bragging rights for millionaires who remain petty internally despite their wealth.
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  1563. FSD -- incredible video: Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9af-1mJ9EAo
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  1564. They will probably take their revenge against IS and possibly try to get the people who ordered the bombings. Unfortunately the odds are 9 to 1 that they will kill or wound innocent civilians even if they do get someone responsible. The US will not care if the Taliban forbids such an action on it's territory because the Taliban has agreed not to allow any marshaling of terrorist forces in Afghanistan. The Taliban has little to worry about at least initially, being surrounded on all sides by Islamic countries except on one increasingly significant boarder they have with China. In the long run the Taliban would do best if it could further legitimize itself and find ways to further exploit any tenuous relationship with the USA. I would presume that any military revenge action will be presented as a joint action of the Taliban and US special operations. Obviously the USA does not restict itself in such cases. This should be readily evident by the raid that killed Binladin. It took place in a town in the very heart of the Pakistani military establishment.
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  1565. If you believe mass media in anything regarding Tesla you probably believe a lie.
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  1566. I would just like to say thanks for all the info that as a hobby investor I would probably not see if it weren't for your timely reports. You turned me onto both the stock that will become polestar, and the one that allows me to easily invest in CATL. Something I would not have had the patients to figure out myself. While my main investment is Tesla which represents slightly more then half of my portfolio, I do now hold about one and a half percent of my total in the polestar and CATL instruments. I think it is early in the game for both of them. One of my best buys has been in a rare earth and strategic metals etf, which shall go unnamed because every time I mention certain instruments, YouTube automatically deletes my comment. Nvidia has also done well for me, but I was in long ago. It is sort of in competition with Tesla in the AI, and FSD, realms and the stock values seem to roughly mirror each other. I also have some BYD and I probably should buy some more of that. I have more or less invested in a stack of ev related instruments, AI, and now robots I guess. Like yourself I am fascinated by all aspects of this industry, and I really don't know why. I usually have little interest in engineering and factories and such. I guess it's the "vision thing". If this thing ever really happens like Elon envisions, it will be an evolutionary quantum leap for human life. The old saying was, "What's good for GM is good for the USA" and at the time that was pretty, though not totally true. Now it's, What's good for Tesla is good for humanity. And that is pretty much true. I cannot wait to see what Tesla does with the incredible earnings it is destined to garner.
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  1567. ​@Sheridan Isashitstain Thanks for the response from Shitstainland. I have given it all due consideration.
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  1568. I checked and though a life-long hetro, I am definitely analogue.
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  1569. Copying the IMF I see.
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  1570.  @seriouskaraoke879  Seriously, it was tried before and it lost. That is, the Saturn brand that GM put out. it takes more than not having dealers.
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  1571. What Mark Blyth believes witll happen: Biden will win the Democratic primary. Trump will then win the election. Global warming will get much worse, next a democratic populist will win. climate change will continue to worsen. Then a right-wing movement will win, climate change will become catastrophic. Finally the left-wing will win back power and will either be able to deal with climate change or it will be the end of civilization for everyone: including the one percent hiding on their islands, New Zealand bunkers, and underground bolt holes.
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  1572. Stupid comment of the day.
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  1573.    It is far more complex and convoluted than that. In either case whether they aided them indirectly by supplying anti Asad rebels who later joined Isis or by imprisoning many of them who escaped or by supplying the Iraqi army with arms that they captured, or even if they at times did it directly for tactical reasons there is still a huge difference between the CIA and ISIS, and it was still a stupid comment.
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  1574. How about this: instead of making this something that has psuedo-acceptable qualifiers and institutionalizing it, just make it a right for everyone to grow any plant they want for personal use or the use of someone they provide care for.
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  1575. A chip is a semiconductor.
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  1576.  mehrimazedeh  UFC and bareknuckles is by far the most violent sports. And they are obviously now worldwide.
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  1577. Every year Car and Driver gives a car of the year award, for it's seventieth year it gave a Car of the Car of the year award. The best car they tested in the last seventy years. That was the Tesla model S. And Tesla does not advertise, give free special magazine cars to be tested. Does not give all expense paid junkets to reviewers to test new models, or any of the hundred other underhanded scams to garner good reviews. So much for your asinine statement.
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  1578.  @golden.lights.twinkle2329  I believe you can assume that the missile sight has thermal capability (In September 2018, it became known that Ukraine has received more than 100 Aselsan Eye-Lr S thermal imagers, which will be installed on Stugna-P installations). In that case if you can see the tank as a different shade than the background you may as well assume it is occupied, since it would have to be recently abandoned to have a differentiating thermal image.
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  1579.  @satexman2585  You failed.
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  1580. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  1581. You guys know a lot of bro history and politics. Almost none of it is correct.
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  1582. Of course it's fu@kery by the German auto industry. Dealing with the German auto industry is like dealing with the mafia. This is not hyperbole, they cheat and lie any time it is possible to make a buck by cheating and lying. The German banks are the same. They are criminals in all but name. This plant should have been built in eastern Europe, or maybe in Norway.
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  1583. Obama deported more undocumented immigrants than Trump. Trump is all bullshit. He makes a big show at the borders while most undocumented immigrants enter by airports and never show up for their hearings or are employed by rich people to work cheap around the estate and then have kids etc.
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  1584. Lose your twitter mind-container.
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  1585. Come on neo puke trolls. I will slaughter your words with facts and show your intelligence up for the dick shadow it actually is. You will be able to see what a fuken scumbag you are, despite your unsinkable hormone driven ego. Or something like that. Take it Jimmy. . . .
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  1586. Some little vector that the financial media hardly seem aware of it how world events have lined up to escalate EV adoption beyond what the "experts" have been able to realistically anticipate. I am not talking about rare earths, or strategic metals, or the many recent FUBAR international logistics, or even China's self immolation by covid policy. No -- I am talking about Russia. Russia is floundering about, trying every harebrained scheme they can come up with to export oil, and none of them is viable. The pipeline to China is small and outdated, and incapable of meaningful volume, they cannot insure any ships, and have no deep ports for supertankers. Of course PP will continue to be extremely necessary into the foreseeable future, but not for mass transport. Russia is not only destroying Ukraine, it is destroying the only thing it had going for it. In Europe ICE is not even close to viable, both economically and politically. Imagine what the case would be if Tesla Berlin had opened a year earlier than it did. The German fake eviro-shills really shot the whole of their nation in the dick on that one.
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  1587. The apartment explosions in Russia were not mysterious. Residents in one building found a bomb that failed to go off. It was obviously Russian ordinance, put there by Putin's secret police in order to implicate Chechens in the slaughter that he himself ordered. Same as he is presently bombing border towns in Belarus and blaming it on Ukraine. A bullet to the head of the rabid dog is the correct response, if anyone is left in Russia that has any balls at all -- other than the antiwar pacifists that they are prosecuting.
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  1588. American's really do not know that they are being inundated by lies and propaganda 24/7. This is a prime example. I f you believe anything on Fox news you are a fool. And probably an old fool. No fool like an old fool boomers.
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  1589.  @hvh377  Look: we know that the over-all car market has shrunk last year, yet Tesla's sales have increased, therefore Tesla's share of the overall car market has increased. The parallax that Tesla's share of the EV market has decreased is meaningless. All it means is, as you said, if you start out with 100% of the market and others move into the market and even if they produce just a few units total, of course Tesla's share of the EV market will diminish as a percentage of the EV market. That is a truly meaningless metric. The kind of bassackward reasoning that is nothing more than rhetoric.
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  1590.  @hvh377  You can attempt to justify your comments by various rhetorical means, but even you must realize that your reasoning is warped. The fact that they are increasing market share in itself is not a statistic to "shout about" no one said it was, but you, in an attempt to justify your view, but the rate at which they are increasing production and sales certainly is. I find it hard to believe that you actually believe that you have a valid point here. Because that would mean you have no idea about what is actually happening and only care about contorting words to justify your silly comments -- like a child with no grasp of the difference between reality and their ideas.
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  1591.  @hvh377  You are obviously locked into attempting to be right about your response. But you are still not "right". I will repeat again the simple logic of the situation. If the over all car market has decreased, as it has last year. But Tesla has dramatically increased it's production and sales, then logically, Tesla's percentage of the overall car market has increased. If you are still not able to understand this, it is not because it is not logical, it is because you are not using logic. Let's look at it this way: T (Tesla) is a set that is a subset of O (Overall car market) if O has diminished but T has increased, then The ratio of T to O has changed. The change can be expressed by the sentence that the percentage of O that T represents has increased. No way around it. Though I am sure you will try.
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  1592.  @hvh377  My friend, if you actually read my second response to you: I did write exactly that. It's still there for you to check if you like. It begins " Look: we know that the over-all car market has shrunk last year, yet Tesla's sales have increased, therefore Tesla's share of the overall car market has increased." I guess you missed it, and went on to explain to me how without data about the overall market my remark could not be deducted. Oh well. Carry on.
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  1593. The Patriot Act is bad, so China is not a bad acting totalitarian state. You have discovered tachyonic reasoning! . . . or a way for the implied correlations in your rant to assume the mantel of nondelegitimized nonsense.
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  1594. Greene is just a reflection of the absolute stupidity of the people in GA that voted for her.
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  1595.  @hannyhawkins7804  His grandfather ran a whorehouse, that is were the Trump moral compass evolved from.
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  1596. Average price of diesel fuel for semis in the USA is $4.99 not $4.20.
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  1597. By the way congratulations on your three year out of style hair cut. Peaky Blinders is in season five dude, and just now you get the Peaky Blinders fan club hair cut and it looks totally ridiculous. They use to cut their hair like that because of lice, what's your excuse you slave to fashion past.
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  1598.  @SiddhArtha96  The "real question" is not "Who am I?" it is "What is "I"?"
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  1599. Anyone who actually knows the physical facts on the ground and ignores the various narratives knows that Tesla is a decade ahead of everyone, Chinese included. Try to wrap your head around that fact. Not only that, but Tesla is also evolving faster than any of its competition. What effect do you think the Tesla phone with continual worldwide satellite connectivity will have on its valuation when it is released? lol.
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  1600. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  1601.  @luperamos7307  Many people mix up the mujaheddin with the Taliban, but they are not the same. While the mujaheddin were fighting the Soviets, the future Taliban were refugee male children being housed and brainwashed in Saudi sponsored madrassas in Pakistan. When they returned to Afganistan, they initially fought against the remnants of the mujaheddin.
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  1602. ​ @luperamos7307 The Taliban are religious extremists, but the mujahedin were mostly more like religious fundamentalists. Anyhow they didn't hesitate to kill each other. I can't find any reference to Rumsfeld making any policy decisions regarding the initial incursion of the Taliban into Afghanistan in about 1994. At the time Rumsfeld was a private citizen not a public official. When he did enter public life, his statements portend only to the defeat of terrorism wherever it had its roots. Who can say? Unlike yourself I do not consider myself privy to his private unstated motivations at the time. Although, at first he certainly stated he was opposed to a nation building campaign in Afghanistan and feared the USA would get bogged down like the Russians did.
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  1603.  @makonaima1  Lot of "morphing" going on there. Maybe you should invite your neurons to morph from partisan emotionally charged reiteration of disinformation to some semblance of intelligence.
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  1604.  @luperamos7307  He's saying that if the USA won't give Cuba back its own land, neither will they give Afghanistan its own money. Another prophet who knows the future.
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  1605.  @lemdixon01  The USA is certainly a hegemony but certainly not an empire. The reason that German is not the official American language is because THERE IS NO OFFICIAL AMERICAN LANGUAGE. And that is because of the reason I just told you. The USA is a constitutional republic. Protectorates are not a part of that republic unless they become states. In colonial America France owned as much of the continent if not more than Britain. Hardly matters now outside of Quebec. The fact that the colonies that revolted against the British were established and governed by the British is near meaningless today. About 10% of Americans have any UK genetics.
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  1606.  @lemdixon01  The meaning of empire is somewhat polymorphic. To me the defining characteristic is tribute. To you it is apparently influence. There is a huge difference between the actions of the British Empire and it's various militarized proxies and the actions and influence of the USA. You keep referring to matters that I already addressed. At the time of the Revolution about ten percent of the people in the American British colonies were German. Most German immigrants were not Amish or "PA Dutch". Only ten percent of the colonists were active in the Revolution. Most sat on the sidelines some actually rose up an slaughtered their pro revolutionary neighbors. At one time the USA accepted all immigration of a very poor Ireland. Do you think these immigrants held American values upon arrival? The USA will never lose it's identity because it's identity is largely based on future prospects as opposed to contrived historic stories. So many Brits love to move to the USA, not because it is like the UK, but because it is different. The pomp and class delusions of the British upper class is enough to make anyone want to leave instead of continually feeling like they have to throw up.
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  1607.  @jackholloway1  According to the Academy for Cultural Diplomacy in 2012, "German-Americans make up the largest self-reported ancestry group within the United States.
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  1608.  @jackholloway1  Most people know who their family is so in this case unlike in dietary studies self-reported is not garbage just because you think so.
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  1609.  @jackholloway1  Look first of all nobody has done a DNA test of the US population. Other than samples here and there. Test in south east Ohio or south central PA and it will be overwhelmingly German. In fact whole swaths of the USA spoke German until the generation that fought in WW2. Test in Boston and it is probably English/Irish. Secondly it is much more likely that a person of German descent thinks they are British then the opposite because their Great Great granddaddy changed the name form Schmidt to Smith during the first WW.
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  1610.  @tina-g4h  Well if we do not count the initial European ventures into North America: which were Nordic, who are Germanic (I guess if you get right down to it, the majority of the British at the time were also Germanic) and since their settlements did not persist we will not count them. But even so, the British were not really here that much longer, but more numerous until later. https://www.loc.gov/rr/european/imde/germchro.html But then again at the time when the first German pioneers appeared there was yet no German nation. So were they even called Germans? Or did they refer to themselves in more regional terms? My own family immigrated from a region of the Holy Roman Empire to America. They would be considered German today, but no one in my family actually ever lived in Germany. At times it was even a part of France. A year before the revolution about one third of the pop of PA was "German" (though there still was no Germany) though the total Germanic population at the time was supposed to be around a hundred K or ten percent of the total European pop in the future USA.
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  1611.  @crescent4996  That would be primarily Scots from poor Appalachia. Not really that wide spread.
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  1612.  @jackholloway1  We can keep going with this is you want to, but your are only going to find out that your assumptions are based on media spin and not the facts. For instance: about 300 years ago, on August 1, 1714, England's Queen Anne died. As a result, the German Elector George Louis of Hanover was proclaimed king of Great Britain in absentia. He was the only possible heir to the throne, and the first German to ascend an English throne. The German king did not set foot on English soil until two months after his proclamation and was crowned King George I on October 20, 1714. His grandson George III was the first in the line of German kings to be born in England, with English being his first language. He married the German Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The couple had 15 children. In 1837, George IV's niece Victoria, who also had a partly German bloodline, was crowned. She married her cousin, the German Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Queen Victoria died in 1901, succeeded by her eldest son Edward VII, the first English king from the German dynasty of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha. To make the name easier to pronounce for the English, the house was renamed Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Just a few years later, in 1910, his son George V became king. He was married to Maria von Teck, who also had German blood, and who became known as Queen Mary. In 1917, George V decided to change the German family name to Windsor. George also renounced all German titles, as did his cousin Ludwig von Battenberg, who renamed his family Mountbatten. Queen Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, came from this family. The mother of Queen Elizabeth II was British, so she was only partly of German descent. Her husband Philip, however, had predominantly German ancestors and spoke fluent German. In 1947, he became a British citizen and, shortly before his marriage to Elizabeth, relinquished his German title of nobility and called himself only "Mountbatten." Their eldest son, the new King Charles III, has a bloodline made up of roughly half German ancestors. So it is no wonder that genetic tests cannot distinguish between Germans and English: Even the King is half German, and many of the British royals before him were entirely German.
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  1613. 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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  1614.  @derekc2042  Your reply does not even deserve this much of a response, but I bet you can't see why. In fact I know you can't. People are walking and talking tells and they almost never realize it. If you want to continue our conversation it will cost you by the hour, because otherwise conversation with you would be worthless.
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  1615.  @carmichaelmoritz8662  Well since corruption is solely a human concept that is dependent on words for it's existence, how could any other life form on earth be corrupt? It can't. Unless you consider evolution itself a form of corruption. Because living systems always take any short cut that advances survival. People are no different. In other words: your statement makes absolutely no sense, other than in some rhetorical game.
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  1616.  Jaime Alonzo  I thought America was two continents that drifted into one another. South America broke off from the west of the supercontinent Gondwana around 135 million years ago, forming its own continent.[62] Around 15 million years ago, the collision of the Caribbean Plate and the Pacific Plate resulted in the emergence of a series of volcanoes along the border that created a number of islands. The gaps in the archipelago of Central America filled in with material eroded off North America and South America, plus new land created by continued volcanism. By three million years ago, the continents of North America and South America were linked by the Isthmus of Panama, thereby forming the single landmass of the Americas.
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  1617.  Jaime Alonzo  You are talking about human conventions. I am telling you about the scientific fact of what happened. Two continents ran into each other and were joined by a series of volcanic islands and erosion. They had separate land masses and separate animal populations that only mixed after panama was formed. That is: they are two continents joined by a recent and small isthmus. Then some humans came along and named them. Look it up. You remark about the Olympic flag is an utterly ridiculous comment. You comments about people calling the USA America are correct, just a convention started mostly by Europeans. America is not a continent. The Americas are two continents -- period -- end of story. Use google is you need to.
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  1618.  Jaime Alonzo  You mean like your delusion that North and South America are one continent? When all you have to do is look it up to find out your are incorrect, but instead you keep correcting others who are only using the word America as a conventional synonym for the USA. You can keep correcting others but you will still be wrong about the whole matter, and just parading your ignorance for all to see.
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  1619.  @vv0sans693  Doesn't matter if anyone is actually advocating, as long as the significant voters believe they are. And they do.
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  1620. For the info of those who are now realizing they need a VPN: I have tried them all, from the first days, when they were only really anonymous in Sweden to the present and I can confirm for those who care that NORD is the best. I have been with them for the last six years and had no reason to continue looking for the best VPN. Everything about them is excellent. I use NORD all the time. I am using it now.
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  1621. Tell that to the students they murdered in Mexico -- fool. In Mexico the police are the criminals.
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  1622.  S Macca  Almost, depending on the area, city, country, suburbs. Not to the same degree -- yet. Though Trump and his enablers are working hard to make us number one in this area too.
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  1623. You think the market for 3 & Y has slowed down? Look at the facts. Tesla has increased it's share of total vehicles sold and increased its market share of EVs sold. It's sales are up 100% YOY in Europe and it is the number one EV brand in China and the USA -- get some info, that doesn't come from commercial media which has been trying to strong arm the marketing dollars out of Tesla with lies for years and years.
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  1624. Tulsi even looks good with those hideous headphones on. What a babe. . . .
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  1625. It's nothing personal (except if you have a conscience) it's like rock-paper-sicssors: Trump beats Biden, Bernie beat Trump, Warren cries, "wee wee wee all the way home." --- Mixed metawhores: always a delight.
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  1626. Kind of silly since the number one EV manufacturer by far in both China and Europe is Tesla, and they produce cars in both China and Germany. The uninformed and intentionally misinforming media pretends like there is some kind of race going on, while the fact is that there is only a race for "also ran". Tesla is so far ahead of any other EV manufacturer that any meaningful comparison can only be made between Tesla and cars that cost twice as much as a Tesla and Tesla is still the better product. The news media seems to think that other companies are "catching up" to Tesla, but the truth is that minute by minute Tesla is pulling further ahead, and reducing prices at the same time. German auto, with the exception of German Tesla has dug its own grave, Chinese EV with the slight exception of BYD, like the American (with the exception of American Tesla, have yet to produce an EV without losing tens of thousands of dollars on each unit, and BYD who is really only a contender in China, is claimed by the media to be the biggest EV producer in China, while the fact is that this is only true is you count hybrid gas vehicle, Tesla produces the most, best, and only meaningfully profitable EVs in China, Europe, and America, and the reason has nothing to do with the reports by the media, which lives or dies on ad revenues, and Tesla does not advertise. The reason they are number one in spite of the disinformation given out everyday by the media, is because when all things are considered Tesla offers value far exceeding that of all other EV manufacturers and a place to actually charge them without anxiety.
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  1627.  @danielmcguire7344  All this will be meaningless in two decades or less because of advances in AI, robotics, and genetics. Almost no one can see this coming, but it is coming.
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  1628. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpC09elt3ZrXofamJml6Caw
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  1629. I have experienced both, and drug induced and natural experiences are not even in the same world. Though I think that psychedelics may be the only way to affect enough people to make a real difference. One thing that they do have in common is how intensely different they are from the normal waking or sleep walking condition. Religion really has nothing at all to do with enlightenment, other than to keep people asleep for their entire lives. When people start quoting other people about such matters, chances are they have never really experienced a genuine natural awakening. There is nothing about it or that will actually help someone that can be written, spoken, or thought. Just my not so humble opinion. And sort of, this guys too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOVUo5TYJM&t=10s This guy teaches at Emory. Jan Cox lived and partied and spoke in Atl for fifty years. He was the most awake person I ever came in contact with, and he wasn't religious or "spiritual" at all. Here's a bit of him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MYh6r_VCC4&t=1233s
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  1630. I think it should be called the model T: where the T is the Tesla symbol instead of a T.
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  1631.  @b1bbscraz3y  Because: traditionally: the right is on the side of the oppressors. The left likes to apologize for things it had nothing to do with. The right despises them for this.
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  1632. I really don't usually like cable news, but I found I like Morning Joe. I just like the style of the show, and the co-host. I love her expressions when she is listening to someone talk.
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  1633. I would be interested in your assessment of the various studies that claim a genetic mutation that prevents the Inuits from going into ketosis. My casual perusal seemed to indicate that there is some kind of mutation that took place, though it seems that now the validity of the methodology of the blood tests that were used to determine this is in some question. Also it seemed that some of the studies indicate a condition that prevents them from transitioning to ketosis merely from low/no carbs, but that they could still go into ketosis is they fasted. The whole thing seemed inconclusive, which left me wondering if some party had an interest in keeping this matter in doubt. They also indicated that the Inuits actually ate more carbs than was first believed and this kept them from ketosis. To me, if it were actually true that the Inuit, in their traditional life, had developed such a genetic mutation, this would settle this entire matter, as to the long term viability of ketosis. It would also settle the matter of low carb, carnivore, vs med, plant based -- once and for all: or those who understood the implications of natural selection selecting against long term ketosis. Perhaps though, the moment has been lost along with the traditional sequestered life style of the Inuit, and if the data we have is questionable it may be too late to ever learn the conclusion to this debate that life itself had selected. I would be most interested in any view you had on this matter.
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  1634. https://www.youtube.com/@AnastasiInTech/videos
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  1635.  @dabbyj509  How pedestrian, how trite, how blind to the evidence that prohibition does not work and has never worked. Continue to ignore the FACT that free pure heroin in a clinical therapeutic setting is what works. It prevents death and despair, and lives ruined by laws that were arbitrary and prejudicial in both concept and effect. It is not unique to be uniquely blind it is quite ordinary, and your sentimental emotion packed view is quite extraordinarily ordinary.
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  1636.  @Mroswaldo16  lol dream on.
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  1637. That's not how it works anywhere. Advertising that addresses unconscious desires works even if the people are aware that they are being manipulated. Quite like the placebo effect still working even when people are informed that they are receiving a placebo. Most of the people who think they made the decision to buy a Tesla based on facts alone are deluding themselves. The facts come as rationalizations after the emotions have decided what to buy.
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  1638. Well at least some good came to the people of Russia. They banned the ridiculously intrusive and abusive facebook app.
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  1639. China has $30 trillion savings in their banking system.
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  1640.  @Enforcer_WJDE  Are you referring to the rural banks that froze accounts back in May and began repayment at the end of July, and whose principal execs are now under investigation? Or some other story that I am unaware of?
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  1641.  @Enforcer_WJDE  I don't know why I even bother, but if you think that everything in China belongs to the CCP you have like a cartoon image of China. The rest of your pseudo-remedial regurgitation of common geopop tropes is naive, but if you throw enough ill-considered slop against the wall some of it will stick, which is to say some of it will be a vague approximation of what may happen.
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  1642.  @sorinelpustiu5674  Actually more frequently than most would expect.
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  1643. Facebook is evil. They consciously choose evil. When you interact on facebook you are personally supporting evil in the world. Evil is always convenient. Compare and contrast Facebook and Google. Facebook knows by their own research that Facebook use is psychologically harmful to young females-- response -- no changes. Google gives the world the AI computed shapes of all the known proteins used in human metabolism, the medical achievement of the decade if not the century -- given to humanity for free. People use facebook because it programs them to be divisive idiots and because they do not realize the extent of the inference engines that FB uses and how they are continually manipulated. On the most important level anyone who supports FB, by using it, is part of the problem.
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  1644. "What does that tell you"? -- . . . Cubans
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  1645. Compared to Shamokin and Shenandoah PA most of the places you filmed look upclass.
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  1646. My friend, fossil fuels were not a choice, that anyone made it was just a natural development of human civilization. Burning dung is dirtier than most fossil fuels, Burning wood is more polluting than heating with gas. Just like we moved on from burning dung and wood, we must now move on from burning oil and even natural gas, and the time is approaching faster than most realize when clean sources of energy will predominate. Firstly in the affluent countries then in time in most.
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  1647.  @branquinho8444  I did some research on EVs some time ago and have found that they were first developed in the 1800s, and they were even economically viable production-wise at about the time of the American Civil War. I was kinda stunned to find this out. Of course the big problem was not much range and no charging network at all. ICE vehicles did not present this problem as all you needed was someone with a big tank to hold gas and sell it to people, not a whole electrical grid. I mean people did not even have electricity in their homes yet. So. . . I did see that documentary about the GM electric cars that were all crushed. If you had one today it would be worth a fortune. Apparently the people who had them liked them very much despite the range issue. Tesla is to be coming out with a 20k EV soon and that will mean a lot. And they do have a viable charging network, that they are going to make available to everyone, including their competition. Personally I like Tesla quite a bit, a corporation with ethics and vision. I have my order in for a cybertruck and hope by the time they are released I can afford one.
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  1648. I had the first gen RX, but it didn't compare to the three rotor Cosmo I had. Not even close.
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  1649.  @darthbigred22  Japan has problems accepting enough immigrants to make up for the pop decline, USA does not. We are happy to accept the worlds best and brightest and have been for centuries. Why wouldn't you count the immigrants little dude? And despite your nonsense beliefs about LGBTQ or whatever, that is not the reason that the advanced societies experience a decline in birthrates. Not even close. But I am sure in your little mind you can rationalize any nonsense to attempt to justify the knee-jerk reactions that you use as a stand-in for reason and facts.
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  1650.  @petpetdoge  Referring to selling the Brooklyn Bride to a rube: "I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you."
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  1651. Really sorry to hear that.
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  1652. No comment on the Taliban attack on Iran because of water rights? Big miss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtmyIkaP1Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtmyIkaP1Q
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  1653. Want a bipartisan issue? Ask them about how they can trade stocks with insider information and be secure from prosecution. It must be nice to be able to make the laws that govern you're special selves both red and blue.
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  1654. I hit a large mule dear at 65mph in an old Izusu Rodao with no damage at all, except to the poor deer. Which was totaled.
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  1655.  @igorpan3413  lol -- brainwashed troll.
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  1656. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  1657. Personally I would rather have a lite fast EV with a 200 mile range than a heavy one with a thousand mile range. People are range delusional, they actually drive 35 miles a day and when they drive more they stop to eat and stretch. Or they should stop for a little walk and stretch every hour or so if they have any sense.
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  1658. So when Trump steals the election and the authoritarian imbeciles and police goons appear in the streets with their AR15s to support him, what will the distressed populace do about it? . . . March to the for-profit concentration camps is my guess, bitching all the way. When you have to depend on the values of the military leaders to make things right -- you are third-world baby. Unfortunately the majority of enlisted forces do not hold the values of the officer corps.
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  1659. That's right, it will be a traffic network that networks vehicles and traffic signals and will not necessitate FSD, and it will be controlled by governments and be mandatory and inexpensive upgrade and you will probably be able to pay you license fees and or traffic fines through it.
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  1660. Or a steam engine, or a refrigerator hum, or the sound of a washing machine, or a rocket.
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  1661.  @kvam6938  Well thanks for the positive comment. I sound really political in this, but I am afraid that if I did a podcast it would be like maybe ten minutes of my suggestions on government, then an attempt to communicate what I could about the possibility of activating certain epigenetic potentials. Which would consist of 98% of my time presenting a disclaimer about why anything I say about it cannot be correct and maybe the rest suggesting things to consider if someone has the same interest as I do. Like this: 2020 vision https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpC09elt3ZrXofamJml6Caw
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  1662.  @kvam6938  Well they should feel free to try if they want. lol I did write a science fiction novel that is quasi-political at least the scenario is: https://www.amazon.com/Unwritten-Book-Xellex-Carlos-Dwa/dp/0615440355
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  1663.  @witeporcelan  Well put. If not for the power elite the rest of us, baring psychopaths and true mental defectives, would be hard pressed to find a war worth fighting. It is hard to imagine the superior state of the world if all the genius and striving that we employ to "defend" ourselves were put to intelligent compassionate production and innovation. Give a billion people a hundred dollars and it is spent, on real needs, and recirculated to strengthen the economy, give one person a hundred billion and it really does much less economic good even it it is all invested in harmless corporations, which term itself may be an oxymoron.
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  1664. That is true now, but future developments in AI may allow easier, cheaper, less compute intensive FSD. But I doubt it will happen in time to save them.
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  1665. Don't make the "we" mistake. It was not "we". It was Bush and his NeoCon advisors. And their ability to steer an attack shocked American into their personal delusional whirlpool. The whole Bush cabal should be investigated and possibly prosecuted.
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  1666. Here's some history for you puddin': Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians.
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  1667. My favorite combo.
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  1668. The Chinese version is presently not accurate enough to pose a real threat to ships or bases, only civilians who live somewhere within 200 km of its target.
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  1669. Kudoos for the way you refused to handle the bullshit -- respect.
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  1670. Spoken like the anti Tesla troll you are. There is nothing about this car that even approaches the engineering of a Tesla, even though you will never admit it.
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  1671.  @andersbjrnsen7203  Just because they were not as capable as the Romans, certainly not because they were morally superior to all the other sadistic bastards that were our ancestors.
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  1672. Bernie $ VS Bloomburg $ Apologies to those who took arithmetic in elementary school. I know you already know this -- even so you may not be able to envision the difference in these fortunes and this explanation may help. Bernie has a stack of two million one dollar bills that he wants to give to Judy. Bernie is old and can only give her one dollar each second. If Bernie is wearing a catheter and doesn't need to go to the bathroom and can hand Judy dollar bills 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: how long will it take Bernie to give Judy his two million dollars? answer: There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hours and 24 hours in a day: Therefore Bernie can hand Judy 86,400 dollar bills every day. So he can give her $86,000 per day. So it would take Bernie just about 23 days and three and a half hours to give Judy two million dollars. (since $86,400 goes into $2,000,000 a little over 23.15 times) In twenty three days Bernie could hand Judy his two million dollars, one dollar at a time, if he can stay awake, and he can, cause he is a vastly woke dude. How long would it take little Mike to hand Judy his 60,2 billion dollars one dollar at a time? Mike is also old and wearing a catheter, is being fed intravenously and attended by his personal medical staff. Through the wonders of modern pharmacology and a neural implant he purchased, Mike can also stay awake. But due to age Mike can also only hand Judy one dollar bill per second. So Mike, like Bernie can give Judy $86,400 per day. There are 6,759.26 ($86,400) in 60.2 billion dollars so it would take Mike six hundred and ninety six thousand seven hundred and fifty nine days to hand Judy his 60.2 billion dollars. That's 696,759.26 days. That many days equals one thousand nine hundred and eight years and a few days short of eight months. So it would take Mike 1908.93 years to hand Judy all his money (that we know of). Bernie would be broke in 23 days. Mike would be broke in 1,909 years. Who is the oligarch? Addendum: Please note that since Mike is a capitalist who profits, not from his labor or producing goods but by investment, his wealth will actually be increasing by more than $86,400 per day because of profits on his fortune. So in reality, no matter how many thousands of years he spends handing Judy his money, he would never be able to do it and would always have more to hand her each day than he did the day before. Addendum PS: Old Jewish wisdom: "Every time somebody makes something for nothing, somebody else makes nothing for something." In Bloomburg's and the other billionares cases this "somebody else" is you and everyone else. If you don't understand this you are truly blind and will never understand why wealth is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and you are being robbed in ways you neither understand nor can do anything about without a fundamental paradigm shift in our laws, government, and cultural world-view.
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  1673. You news millionaire "reporter" assholes are to blame for this piece of shit being in office and getting the attention his little piggy heart desires. You profit because no one can look away from the slow motion train wreck that this presidency is, and now you begin to see that giving a narcissist mental defective the attention he craves is not the way to go. You don't understand that he does not care about anything but being the center of attention and never has. He is there to do the bidding of the power-elite and his absurd behavior is to distract from the real evil and thievery that is destroying all the good that our forefathers had built up for all citizens. Good attention, bad attention it does not matter, you are dealing with a fricken psychopath, a spoiled child. If you actually want him to go away, have the balls to stand and laugh in his face when he lies. If his live audience would start to laugh at him every time he lied he would go away. Ignore him, laugh at him, and then vote him out. You people are imbeciles and I hope you both destroy each other. The only problems the people of earth have is their leaders, one and all they are destroying everything. No sane person would do insane things if not for their leaders, whether political, religious, or military. Fuck all you elitists. You are a plague on humanity and deserve every affront you receive.
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  1674. The sanctions that really matter is the western tech. Unfortunately there has been no shortage of criminals that are willing to use strawman tactics to purchase western high tech and then smuggle it into Russia though one of their dominated neighbors.
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  1675.  @nntflow7058  Your semi-coherent comment quite clearly refers to "Tesla's owner" trashing his customers. Which makes no sense in either case but really makes no sense if you meant the owners of Teslas trashing themselves. If you are talking about the products, which you now claim, your comment also makes no sense. The products changed the world and are more than five years ahead of the next best EV in their price range. And are pulling further ahead on a weekly basis.
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  1676.  @nntflow7058  I did not "interpret" your comment. Learn to write what you mean. Your inability to admit that your comment was incoherent speaks volumes.
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  1677.  @CaptPatrick01  Congratulations you have won the Stupid Comment of the Day Award. God bless.
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  1678.  @Noleetah  That's the only play they have. California alone would crush Russia in a conventional war.
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  1679.  @Goldlung1  A country defending itself from an invasion does not escalate no matter what they do. What you view as "escalation" is really just the increase in defensive capablitily. Calling anything done to defend one's homeland "escaltion" is just rhetorical disinformation to try to affect the puddin' headed. Fortunately most of the puddin' headed fools are those who believe anything that rationalizes Russian aggression in any form.
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  1680.  @Goldlung1  That offer was on the table -- unless you believe Russian propaganda.
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  1681.  @Rel-_  Don't forget the Cercassian genocide, and the largest genocide of all times against Ukraine between the world wars.
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  1682.  @Will13874  This is incorrect.
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  1683.  @niravelniflheim1858  Somewhat correct.
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  1684. That episode portrayed a culture where war was extremely costly in human lives, but the infrastructure was spared. The people who were designated at casualties by war gaming computers were required to report to a local center to be disintegrated. The supposition was that war must be destructive to the totality of a culture, not just costly in human lives. Guess you sort of mis-remembered the whole theme of the show. It would be more analogous to something like the use of neutron bombs or communicable biological agents that are targeted by genomic characteristics like the Chinese have been so diligently developing.
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  1685. Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514&t=6
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  1686. Seeing comments like this is beginning to make me lose respect for Peter's audience. 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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  1687.  @taylorc2542  That's the narrative that covers the truth, the narrative that fools and Russians believe. That could have been achieved without the Trump idiocy. There are two types of Americans that support Trump: those who would rather see America destroyed than pay taxes on their fortunes, and those too stupid to realize how dumb they are.
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  1688.  @daniele81  Almost makes you think that Putin and the Russian mafia have something on Trump that makes him their puppet. In fact that is what I and a lot of people think, because it is about the only thing that makes sense of his idiotic actions.
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  1689. The CIA, about a thousand US special forces troops, and the Northern Alliance (an alliance of drug dealers and heroin smugglers) ran Al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan with minimal ground forces and a few cargo planes full of hundred dollar bills. The mess you are seeing now is entirely the fault of the people who decided to send in the army and nation build. This is the decision that caused the following twenty years of wasted funds and American lives. So who was it that made that fateful and enormously stupid decision? Yes hindsight is 20/20 but apparently so were the many voices that warned of the inevitable quagmire that would develop in Afghanistan twenty years ago. This is who is really responsible for the lose of life and the incredible expense of a meaningless war that anyone with a few brain cells knew, would end as it has: decades ago. The dummy who made the decision: President George W. Bush signs into law a joint resolution, authorizing the use of force against those responsible for attacking the United States on 9/11. This joint resolution will later be cited by the Bush administration as legal rationale for its decision to take sweeping measures to combat terrorism, from invading Afghanistan, to eavesdropping on U.S. citizens without a court order, to stetting up the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But of course the usual suspects, the military industrial complex, dose see a huge windfall every time the USA arms it's enemies by giving arms and training to forces who have no intention of standing and fighting. The USA got punked once again by it's own arms industry.
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  1690. Kudos Bro. People will dismiss the impact of individual acts and behavior as inconsequential, but they are wrong, and probably jaded partisans of one bend or another just trying to use a crisis to push their pet narrative. The truth is, that if we reforested the woodlands that have been cleared since 1800, and only grazed animals on natural grasslands with natural predation that would keep them in tight herds that move around freely, we would have no climate crisis at all, even with the present level of pollution. Thank you for your behavioral contribution. Truly anyone who really cares and wishes to help will help greatly over the course of their lifetime by abstaining from the products of animal agriculture.
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  1691.  @lisamurdoch2525  Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas than any other factor. Not because of cow farts, extremely inefficient way of producing nutritious food, or energy usage, although they certainly are factors, but because of the forested lands that have been cleared and used for grazing lands, like the holocaust that is taking place in the forests of Brazil. If the world was reforested to the level that it had in 1800, eighty seven percent of the green house gases would be in the trees and not the atmosphere. Natural herd fauna have nothing to do with it and are not even used in the calculation of green house gases. Because the free movement of natural herds under the natural intense predation they are subject to actually decreases green house gases by increasing the viability of natural flora that they trample and fertilize. But animal agriculture is a whole different story. One you apparently know little but disinformation about. Narratives supported by the meat and dairy corporations that fund the studies that throw doubt upon this subject. Just like big tobacco found out. All you have to do is sow doubt about the obvious problem and it is enough to curtail effective action, at least for a bit longer so they can profit as long as possible.
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  1692. . . . umm. . . batteries. . . . Wind vs Solar -- just silly. Each have their place and advantages. Solar for instance, really need have no moving parts, and has far fewer parts in general. Hydro of course, is the tits, if you have the location, and it has loads of parts. No system to rule them all, . . . yet.
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  1693. The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources, cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The most important thing you can do as an individual to address climate change is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, your grandchildren will be forced to determine whether to eat their babies to survive a few more weeks when crops fail globally. Your choice: indulge your blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered mindless opinions, or leave future generations an earth worth living on. Or you can just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things like Bezo's money and ignore the situation until it is beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of you, even if convinced of the reality of the global climate situation will go on with your rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are you a rational moral being, or a mad machine that really has no control over yourself?
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  1694. This subject is totally irrelevant to Tesla. Not so much to Twitter. But then Twitter is just stupid from the get go.
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  1695.  @soup100  Only in the minds of market manipulators. It does not affect anything real, like production, sales, engineering etc. This is the difference between investing in a company that will dominate the future and trading in stocks. It may give a significant discount window, that is about the only relevance it will have to me. I hope it happens and Tesla hits below 5.
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  1696.  @soup100  Actually I think Musk already sold the stock to make this purchase.
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  1697.  @Gustav4  Wastelands have been brought back to grasslands then woodland by stopping grazing, many times. There is a major difference between forest land that is cleared for pasture, and natural grassland that is improperly used and degraded. I would never join facebook. That is for people who don't care or understand how evil facebook is.
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  1698.  @Gustav4  It's so convenient to support evil. I know. I leave it to you and your associates. As you know YT is owned by Google, who just release free of charge to the world the computed forms of all the proteins in the human metabolism. Quite a difference in their relationship to the world.
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  1699. Important question . . . not!
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  1700.  @nigelpalmer9248  I wonder how an EV would hold up on Uranus? Oh wait, it doesn't matter, if the people on Uranus don't adopt EVs. There are so few of them that no one cares but the two people who live there. I wonder how EVs would work on the slopes of Everest in Nepal? Who cares? Visit a cold gear site if you are so interested. I wonder how EVs would make out in Siberia? Doesn't matter there is no viable road network to use them on, very few roads, and fewer still that are maintained. Take a train, if you can find one.
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  1701.  @nigelpalmer9248  There is a big difference between a "viable road network" and a few roads. Perhaps you should learn to read, although I think your comprehension is the real problem -- sonny. Or perhaps you should study the demographics of highways in Siberia, or look at a roadmap of Siberia -- or more accurately a no-road map. As Peter Zeihan points out, the average land in Russia does not produce enough to justify a viable road network, that can be seen in how their military is limited to railroad deployment, because even a few hundred miles from Moscow their are no roads that can handle that kind of traffic. You are a typical buffoon, who comments without knowing the facts on the ground. Before you bother, I know there is a trans-siberian highway, one highway -- einstein, for one of the largest land areas on earth. In most Russian territory if it doesn't move by railroad then it better be able to move by dog sled -- cause their isn't any VIABLE ROAD NETWORK.
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  1702. Nobody in a position to do so really wants to solve this problem. Some don't even consider it a problem, they consider it career insurance. The solution is simple and has been proven in Switzerland. You give addicts free drugs in clinical surroundings with access and caring inducement to enter therapy. This will solve all this instantly. But, the bankers don't want that. They want to continue to clean the billions in profits for their cut. They own the media and you are not ever going to see anything on corporate owned media that presents a real, proven, solution to this problem, because for the power elite, this is not a problem, it is a source of capital. Here is an even simpler way to put an end to enriching the first criminal billionaires on earth. Which were created entirely by the puritanical US laws. Make it legal for any adult to grow any plant for their own use or the use of someone in their care. End of problem. People will just grow poppies in their gardens and settle into a maintenance dosage, stop the criminal activities they are involved in to be able to afford these illegal drugs and get back to a productive life. This has also been proven in Switzerland. The power-elite know all this, yet in their media they continue their century of lies in order to manipulate public opinion, for the sake of their own profits and power.
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  1703.  @vojtulee1  If you think that the megacks that are replacing peaker power plants all over the world and the Tesla recharging network, which is the only reliable system in most of the world are not functional, it is your brain that is not functional, not to even mention an insurance company that depends on real data instead of actuary tables to determine risk and rate, a company that has made emergency phone calls without a special phone, and internet connectivity possible from virtually anywhere on earth. Etc. etc. etc. This entire YouTube channel is the real joke: small envious minds that try to belittle the achievements of a man and his suite of companies that are transforming daily life for millions of people in a positive way. Such incredible imbeciles.
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  1704. Fuck the meat industry -- meat is not essential for human life and kills hundreds of thousands of people in the USA every year. If you eat meat basically you suck and know nothing about nutrition, and care nothing about the other earthlings. If there is justice in the universe meat-eaters will come back as factory farm pigs.
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  1705.  @michaeldelisieux5252  All these guys and Peter fail to mention a major factor in the USA/Cuba equation: the mob does not forget. When the commies took over Cuba they took the biggest criminal enterprise on earth from the American mob. Myer Lansky's various minions used to show up at Batista's palace with suit cases full of money to pay him off. The entire affluent part of the Cuban economy and it's periphery was a criminal enterprise and the businesses that supported it and just thrived because of it. And in addition to the casinos, and brothels, and drugs, it was used to wash the skim from the casinos and other mob enterprises in USA. The mob pretty much owned the country, and a certain segment of the Cuban society thrived because of it. A lot of their descendants are Cuban right wing Communist Cuba haters that live in Florida, and they matter politically. But what really matters is that the mob lost the farm because of the communists. Before the revolution they basically owned a country, and the mob does not forgive or forget and has vast political patronage.
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  1706. Frum crawl back in your hole. If you had one percent of the nobility that Sanders has your head would explode with uncontrolled ego instead of the true compassion that Sanders exhibits.
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  1707. lol The reality is that anyone who is in power will never do anything voluntarily to reduce their power. The reality is that anyone that seeks political power are the last people on earth who should be given power. The entire problem -- all our problems are caused by our leaders. The leaders are the problem. All of them.
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  1708. The fast food that was three thousand years in the making. Or is the metaphor empty calories? In either case for those relying on such as this for nourishment, my deepest sympathy. I know the wasteland of awareness that leads one to sup on such facsimiles of means and being. Such compulsive flailing at tertiary conceptions in search of the luscious living liquid light and the orgasmic grace of the life-ruining grande experience which be obscured by their very explanations, same as it ever was. So sad: so uproariously funny. Hold forth my darling thinkers, figurers-out in a land of infinitely fungible, infinitely adjacent conceptions: how right they are. Their answers create their faux problems. Nah not ethnogenically addled teens high on hormones and X: Grown Men. I think they got it now, woops, try again lads. Woops. . . slippery devil, aye? Shhhh. . . . . . shhhH
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  1709. Psychedelic experiences can be very valuable, but they do not compare to natural awakening of the higher levels of consciousness. I have experienced both and there is no real equivalency, especially in the area of permanent extension of consciousness.
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  1710.  @alanelukman2516  Thanks, for the info. I am not seeking help of any kind, but perhaps someone else is seeking a legitimate source for a psychotropic. I assume that is what you are implying. I recommend peyote. Back in the sixites that was always the sweetest, most fun, and profound, for me.
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  1711. The Stanford Prisoner Experiment should tell us everything we need to know about giving people authority and uniforms and weapons and telling them to enforce order. Even when they know it's an act they become extremely abusive. And in case you didn't know it. . . it's all an act. (I guess I better add: it's all an act in a cosmic sense because these brutes have forgotten who they really are, and there will be much weeping if they ever remember. Tears of sadness over what they have done in their dark ignorance and tears of joy over remembering that that is not who they are.)
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  1712. If you just believe your own bullshit you are above the law.
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  1713.  @Hands2HealNow  Source?
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  1714. You expect someone with Aspergers whose main interest is Truth to have social morays? Bla bla bla.
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  1715.  @SpinX522  Don't hold your breath waiting for a criminal enterprise to adopt policies that are in the interests of the victims that it feeds upon.
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  1716. Some little vector that the financial media hardly seem aware of it how world events have lined up to escalate EV adoption beyond what the "experts" have been able to realistically anticipate. I am not talking about rare earths, or strategic metals, or the many recent FUBAR international logistics, or even China's self immolation by covid policy. No -- I am talking about Russia. Russia is floundering about, trying every harebrained scheme they can come up with to export oil, and none of them is viable. The pipeline to China is small and outdated, and incapable of meaningful volume, they cannot insure any ships, and have no deep ports for supertankers. Of course PP will continue to be extremely necessary into the foreseeable future, but not for mass transport. Russia is not only destroying Ukraine, it is destroying the only thing it had going for it. In Europe ICE is not even close to viable, both economically and politically. Imagine what the case would be if Tesla Berlin had opened a year earlier than it did. The German fake eviro-shills really shot the whole of their nation in the dick on that one.
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  1717. You obviously do not know anything about what Tesla FSD is capable of compared to the foolish Mercedes and Waymo suggestions you made.
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  1718.  @solidaritytime3650  delusions of grandeur
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  1719. You don't need real leaders. The leaders are the problem. More precisely: how the leaders are chosen is the problem.
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  1720.  @swissy5608  The government wants every cash purchase over 6oo to be reported now.
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  1721.  @nutyyyy  With the US Navies new extended range air air launched anti radar missile, that is able to be carried internally on F-35 I would say the risk for China has increased exponentially.
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  1722. Dude the increased cost of labor is one of the key drivers of inflation. Now due to the falling labor market (the perception of it anyway) we are actually presently in a period of deflation, that has yet to be realized. Prices are falling like Russians in a meat assault in Ukraine.
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  1723. The people who do not understand that they are fools for using facebook at all will never understand why. They just think it is a convenient way to keep up on things and have a fake life. I took one look at the intrusive nature of the inference engines that facebook runs on you and it was "good-bye you fuckers" from me. The fact that the billions of facebook users do not feel screwed over is amazing. I have no hope they will ever get unstuck from the logarithms.
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  1724. His choice of attorney general was a kick to the groin of all Americans including Trump cultists. He just wants the cabinet to be totally dependent on him to protect them so they will protect him.
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  1725. If you want cheap nice old houses nothing beats Northumberland county PA.
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  1726.  @StormyDog  People have apparently been able to sell preowned Teslas privately for more than they cost new. Lots of wannabe Tesla dealers making 4 and 5 k per car.
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  1727.  @henrikl4244  Unless you really can't afford it, or are over 65, or disabled. Then you get free healthcare, $600 per year for glasses/contacts, between insurance and SNAP you get free food, $7,000 per year for dental, Around $600 dollar per quarter for OTC health aids, most or all of your rent paid depending on your SS rate, subsidized home heating, free weatherization of your apt or house, a rebate on your property tax or rent costs, a minimum of about 10grand per year in SSI, if you are single without dependents. Plus other stuff I can't remember right now. Not exactly the picture that the woke puddin' heads paint.
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  1728. Much if not most of Ford Credit is not made by financing private buyers cars but by the loans the dealers take out to put cars on their lot. So if a dealer has a five hundred unsold cars on his lot he is paying interest on a loan for every one of them. Dealers do not own the cars on their lots, they own a loan on them. That is why their are periodic rebates to dealers to flush out their cars and order the new model year. So Ford actually makes money on the dealers not selling.
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  1729. A bully corners a skinny little kid and starts to hit him. The bullies friend holds a gun on the skinny kid and tells him that if he strikes back he will be shot. Remind you of anything? Ukraine should start launching long range drones against Russia. The same as Russia is against the civilian Ukrainians. Launch hundreds of drones against Russian civilians and government, and infrastructure -- wake their hypnotized populations out of their insane dreams. Bullies will persist until you smack them in the face and they run home to their mommies.
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  1730. Nothing for Bernie huh? Figures, just another middle finger to the real democrats by the crypto-republicans that run the DNC. These people will never do anything but fuck us over, and over, and over.
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  1731.  @geetee2694  Perfect "what-about-ism" That narrative is no longer even considered anything but sophistry, outside of grammar school.
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  1732.  @343ramana  There are now far stronger forces on Russia's borders than there was before Russia invaded a free country that posed no threat to Russia, outside of that incited by Russian subtrafuge and aggression. Russians always, always, accuse their enemies of doing what they themselves are really doing. Sometimes we even wonder if like some addled old uncle they are totally unaware of their compulsive projection of their own barbarism onto others. Whether it is one way or another, their psychopathic and paranoia motivated murderous actions make it a moot point.
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  1733. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  1734. I quit his channel the first time he exhibited his ignorance about EVs as knowledge.
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  1735. GM is the leader in electric vehicles. They delivered 24 in 21. Trump won the election. In fantasyland. Never so much disrespect for the intelligence of the public. But then again, those who support and are inspired by politicians, deserve it.
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  1736. From a depreciation standpoint a Bentley is virtually the worst car to buy, unless you want to project the image that you have so much money that it doesn't matter to you that you car is worth 20k less each year. Or that other people's perception of you is more important than reality because of your vacuous inner wealth.
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  1737. No.
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  1738.  @reforest4fertility  The petroleum industry is not the biggest producer of greenhouse gases -- not even close. Animal agriculture produces 87% of all greenhouse gases and all the other industries combined produce about 13%. Don't be a meat and dairy fool, it is much more harmful to the environment than being a fossil fool. Personally I drive an EV and buy my electricity from green sources, and am a vegan. Now bark.
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  1739. Evidently there are areas wherein there is meaning for which communication in language is inherently misleading. Meaning which is so altered and distorted by language that any integral communication regarding it in words, amounts to an endless disclaimer regarding the impossibility of any accurate representation by symbolic means. Here is an example of someone addressing this phenomena. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOVUo5TYJM
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  1740. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases, Fact: the biiggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one action you are capable of that will help, because you have a flesh addiction that you cannot overcome: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death.
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  1741. Recovery rate estimate given on DW attributed to Loyds has been lowered from 3.5 to 3%.
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  1742.  @landontesar3070  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xrv3IiPlk
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  1743. "We" should not provide it, Saudi Arabia is responsible for the creation of the Taliban, they should provide it.
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  1744. And if they just add a electric trigger and the digital controls they will have what Tracking Point had ten years ago.
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  1745. Tesla will not be the future Apple: Tesla will be the future Aramco. Aramco is now number one. "Tesla has brought a machinegun to a knife fight." Today Tesla was up twice what BitCoin was. Not to mention: if you own Tesla you own Bitcoin because Tesla owns a billion and a half Bitcoin.
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  1746. I want reparations from the Vatican for Rome taking slaves in Germany.
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  1747. Why not just sell votes for a buck a vote. You have five bucks you get five votes. I mean isn't that what we really have now?
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  1748. I was of the impression that US troops were already displacing Russians to protect the Armenians.
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  1749. Biden thinks the unions built the middle class. Truth: the unions built part of the middle class, small family owned businesses built a bigger part of it, the GI bill and a wave of professionals that would have otherwise not had a higher education built a very large part of it. In case someone missed out on the Welcome to Earth Orientation: The one and only motivation of any one who is part of the power-elite, whether political, or business, or religious, or military, is to maintain and increase their power. Doesn't matter if they are a communist or a foaming at the mouth libertarian, that is their only motivation: no matter what they tell the world or themselves. The news media and public officials will now break into small groups and say stupid sh!t until you are all numb, . . . and not comfortably. . . .
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  1750. If black people get reparations then northern Europeans should get reparations from the Italians for making slaves for Rome out of them, and all Europeans should get reparations from Turkey for taking slaves from all the coastal cities for over two hundred years under the Ottomans, because they have as much to do with the slavery back then as modern Americans do the small number of large slave owners in the South. And how about reparations from the black African raiders who delivered the other Africans to the slave trader ships on the coast or the Arabs who took most of the black slaves? How about the native South Americans made slaves by the Spanish and Portuguese Empires and worked to death in silver mines and rubber plantations, ditto for the Cubans and other Caribbean peoples. How about the natives of the Congo enslaved by Belgium and brutalized beyond comprehension? How about the millions of Chinese enslaved by their own people and worked to death building the Great Wall? How about the Germans and Russians and others worked to death in the Soviet Gulag? The Jews and Poles used as slave labor by the Nazis? The Native Americans taken as slaves by other Native American tribes? It goes on and on, there are hundreds if not thousands of examples of all the different peoples of the earth being slaves at one time or another. The fact is that almost everyone has slavery in their ancestry. Real history is full of slavery but I only ever hear one small sub-group who continue to cry about it and try to monetize the fact that their ancestors were slaves over a century ago.
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  1751. Don't say, " But in actuality. . . " Just say "But. . . "
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  1752. Rich has it wrong about decreasing resources and over-population. The population is crashing in all first world countries. If we can keep people alive it is much more efficient than educating and training new people over and over to learn the same darn things as old people already know. And there is no such thing as decreasing resources if you start industries in space.
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  1753. Peter much as I enjoy your takes, you need to intensely study the Tesla Investor Day to get a clue about the electrified future. Cliff Notes take away: LESS mining than the petrol economy that is polluting the earth with far less pollution and over 90% recycling. The problem with gas/diesel is not just the fact that they are one of the primary factors in climate change (I barely care about that) but that, not only will they kill you quickly in an enclosed space, which may indicate something even to the terminally brain challenged, but they cause cancer over time to average exposure, like living next to a busy street or highway, and kill even more with various pulmonary diseases. The medical expenses alone that are caused by their noxious fumes are astronomical and they kill hundreds of millions of humans every year who have thoughts like, "I took care of myself and never smoked, why did I get cancer?"
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  1754.  @markbenoit  The University of Maryland has shown that people who depend on Fox for their news know less about what is actually happening than people who are not interested in the news at all and don't follow it. How is this possible? Simple: they lie continuously and when they do throw a fact in it is embedded in a narrative of disinformation. Fox News is the one of the worst things that has ever happened to America. Their continual false narrative is the main reason for the polarization of American politics and imbeciles like Green being elected. They cannot even be sued for lying because they say, "It's not news, it's entertainment." Apparently their audience is easily entertained, all they have to do is bash liberals and all the mental deficients can indulge in cerebral masturbation.
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  1755. His real response is to use this crisis to double down on his policy of socialism for the power-elite (subsidize subsidize, subsidize) and the illusion of concern but the undermining of the social net for everyone else. Socialism for the rich and rugged individualism for everyone else. The policies of your unelected rulers: Koch and Mercer and the usual suspects, as enacted by their game show host sideshow conman Donald.
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  1756. This would not make sense in a battery restrained environment like we have. Why use more cells than are being used when you can use them to build more cars.
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  1757.  @GM-xk1nw  These are perfect examples of the US loosing interest. Vietnam was a mistake from the beginning but it took decades for it to percolate into the awareness of the voting public. Afghanistan was another example of stupid on the part of the military deciding to nation build to enrich certain corporate entities, and eventually the American public got sick of it, so the politicians pulled the plug.
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  1758.  @DeltaCain13  "Militarily speaking the US doesn't lose wars, it's basically killed, maimed and destroyed everyone it's ever fought against in disproportionate numbers compared to it's own losses." Some of the wars the USA won were not so disproportionate, I am thinking Revolutionary War, and War of 1812. In the Revolutionary War more Americans died in British prison ships anchored in NYC than on the battlefield.
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  1759.  @philpatterson7085  "Most atheists were theists first" quite a presumption on your part. I am sure you believe this from your quite limited experience, but you have no actual epidemiological data to support your preposterous assumption. If the name fits, you deserve it.
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  1760.  @philpatterson7085  Too late, you blew it. Though I don't expect you can understand how or why. Good day to you.
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  1761. It was not American isolationism that lead to it's involvement in WW1. Much the contrary. Entering WW1 was the stupidest thing that the USA ever did. When Russia collapsed and the revolutionaries signed a treaty with the Central Powers it freed up a million German soldiers to move to the western front. And admit it or not the soviets were now backing Germany. When this happened if the USA had not entered the war due to the subconscious manipulation of the American public via Edward Bernays Council on Foreign Relations using techniques he based on the unpublished works of his uncle Sigmund Freud, a public that was almost totally against the war became a public that cried for vengeance, even hung a few German Americans in the streets. If the USA had not entered the war at that point the Central Powers would have won. Had we stayed out of it, there would have been no Hitler, no WW2, no vast genocides of Jews, the disabled, gypsies, and various other scapegoat groups, no Soviet superpower, and no loss of over a hundred thousand American boys in a war the nation really had no stake in. AND the end game would have been more or less what we have in Europe today. (Remember the Germany of the time was not a Nazi Nation run by a madman but a constitutional monarchy in which political parties were limited to the legislative arena. And there is much speculation that the real reason for the insane mobilization that took place was the work on the construction of a German railroad from Central Europe into the oil fields of the Middle East, which the British controlled. On the other hand there are those Americans who benefited greatly from the war at the time. By the end of 1918, American factories had produced 3.5 million rifles, 20 million artillery rounds, 633 million pounds of smokeless gunpowder, 376 million pounds of high explosives, 21,000 airplane engines, and large amounts of poison gas.
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  1762.  @janlanik2660  I think a bunch of dead seamen in Hawaii may contest that statement if they could. It was mostly luck that allowed the US to stop the Japanese, and Hawaii was definitely on the hit list for invasion in preparation for further threat of invasion to drive the USA to treat. Then if the Japs had defeated the USA at sea, and they had a great chance of doing so, until Midway, they would have controlled the entire Pacific, all of East Asia, Australia at best would have become a vassal state, and that would have presented an extreme case of existential doom for the USA.
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  1763. It's rorke's drift all over again. Get a clue Russia.
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  1764. Last gasp for ICE.
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  1765. Twenty negative reports on yahoo finance Tesla chart page. Every one of them is incorrect. This cannot all be attributed to reporters with their heads up their ass.
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  1766. Bernie will crush Trump in the general election! As to whether or not he will win the presidency is another matter. My recently deceased PA coal region father voted for Trump, but would have voted for Bernie if he had not been cheated out of the nomination. In either case it is curious that we ended up with two of the most despised creatures in America as our main choices. Bernie was cheated by a DNC that has no legal obligation to be fair or honest, and who take full advantage of every backroom deceit that they can come up with. Biden is for voters who would rather see another four years of Trump than have Bernie as president. Bernie will speak for all but the power-elite and the unending supply of co-opted sycophantic slugg-heads that surround them and do things like manage the various corporate news venues.
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  1767.  @carkawalakhatulistiwa  If you haven't noticed, like because maybe you were in a stupor for your life up to now: All governments are hypocrites, and you are one for pretending that it is or ever was otherwise. Besides that you are dealing in a false equivalency which i assume is par for your course.
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  1768.  @hvh377  Times change and Tesla changes with them, usually ahead of them. You may be keeping some kind of OC score about corporate decisions in the past, but really, what in the heck does it matter? That was then, this is now.
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  1769. I really hope that if Bernie wins he rounds up all the banksters and puts them on trial.
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  1770.  @MrTiti  It's = it is "its" is correct
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  1771.  @als4817  wrong
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  1772.  @mirandahotspring4019  Even if the leader was not a male, "his" would still be correct.
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  1773.  @rrowe1243  If you did not care you would not have commented.
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  1774.  @mirandahotspring4019  "It's" is short for "it is", as in "It's cold today."
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  1775.  @mirandahotspring4019  I see you're not bored anymore. You're welcome.
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  1776.  @mirandahotspring4019  You are not a member of the press.
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  1777.  @mirandahotspring4019 Yep, psychotic powers are definitely mine.
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  1778.  @mirandahotspring4019  Oh yes, I remember seeing your byline on that article about recursive non sequitur deconstructioin in The Journal of Woke Usage in the Omnipresent Media MindFulk last Feb 29th.
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  1779. Why does Shapiro get any coverage from anyone? Like you. What an asshole -- Ben, not you guys: love you guys fer sur.
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  1780. Pirates do not attack Russian oil shipments because the armed mercenaries onboard kill them.
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  1781.  @mikewhite8009  Nobody ever lost 30 million people in a battle.
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  1782.  @noneshere  Most of what you consider russia is comprised of independent governments, There would be no need to nuke most of Russia, because nothing is there. The USA and Canada combined is larger than russia. In a nuclear exchange russia would be against all of NATO that would be USA, Canada and 28 other countries, plus probably Sweden, France and a few other countries that hate the blight on humanity that russia is.
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  1783.  @patzeuner8385  And most of it is not even under the russian government.
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  1784.  @-...Patricia...- Putin is the biggest thief on earth. Wanna know why russian troops are eating decades old food and using equipment that is so good they have to just abandon it? Follow the money trail to fake Panamanian corporations owned by Putins buddies who are hiding his stolen money for him. Not gonna do him any good though because he is as good as dead. I hear he watches films of Gadaffi being stabbed to death over and over. Poor LITTLE man.
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  1785. Awesome job.
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  1786. Another co-opted nitwit bending "alternate facts" to fit the narrative that the poisoners of earth give him. A few little nuclear incidents like the one still burning through everything and polluting the pacific in Japan. Yes read his article in the Washington Post. The rag owned by the richest man in America, whose exploited workers won a living wage increase because of Bernie. We are hip to your disinformation you fucken hack.
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  1787. Perhaps, but it is a sad commentary because DN is extremely biased and partisan. People are just not interested in objective news.
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  1788.  @makonaima1  I agree.
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  1789. In the comments, someone claimed a similarity between USA/China present relations and those of Rome/Carthage before the Punic Wars. I began to write a rebuttal to that statement but really didn't care enough to get into it. But if analogies are to be drawn, I personally would be more likely to liken the present US/China dynamic to the US/Japanese dynamic that preceded Japan attacking both Mongolia/China, Pearl Harbor, and lots of places in between. Seems to me, that if you tighten the screws on China's economy, they are going to have to attack somewhere. So does the attack come at the bequest of Xi and directed outwardly or does it come as the anguished cry of a populace directed toward its directors? My money would be on the first scenario.
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  1790.  @RM-od6hg  Facts speak for themselves trog.
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  1791. You say that the public doesn't really even have to pay for F1, but it does. Every item that is priced higher because of advertising in F1, every car OEM that fields a team and doesn't break even on it, increases the price of their vehicles etc. It's like any sport, the tax is build in and you don't get a choice: buy a pair of Nikes; you are in part paying the fee for that millionaire baller in the ads, even if you don't watch the sport.
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  1792. Peter Zeihan has stated that one in every four Russians suffers from antibiotic resistant TB. So I guess the countries accepting Russians fleeing the mess they have made by allowing a tyrant to take control should prepare for a epidemic of TB that cannot be treated by antibiotics. Good luck with that.
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  1793. That would be fine except in many cases the government and the cartels are the same power elite under the table.
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  1794.  @sarahprosecco  So true. Always need to wrap the base instincts of humans , in flags, or god's will, or patriotism, or justice, or some such rot to cover up the real rot: the fact that humans in denial of the true sense of their own capacity for brutality and ego enhancing aggression can rationalize anything in order to forever avoid the real intra-personal and cosmic reality of their heinous acts. Delusional killer apes with language, and brains molded by survival hormones distorted by the delusion that concepts have the same reality as things that don't disappear when no one is thinking or talking about them. Ever in denial of the fact that their beliefs and conceptual constructs are nothing but superficial devices to cover up the reality that aside from these instinctive hormonally driven distortions of the impulse for genetic expansion of life: inwardly they actually consist of nothing and must ever avoid this point blank realization. Unless they are fortunate enough to see that their mind and automatic mental functioning are totally mechanical and their immediate nonconceptual, consciousness awareness transcends all they presently believe to be themselves and hold dear. I have some hope for a generalized projection of oxytocin from females, and not much else outside of those few persons devoted to the evolution of their own consciousness within their lifetimes. The pursuit of which necessarily entails the abandonment of all forms of hostility, and even all forms of criticism such as I evidenced in the above tirade. Outside of references to actual physical events and problems, their is no truth in words let alone habitual mechanical thoughts, including these.
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  1795.  @broadbeanification  My friend, nobody knows the ins and outs of monetizing military defeat like the Afganis. They have been doing it for centuries.
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  1796.  @paul9156c  I hear you. IMO you can't take the defeats of US foreign policy as military defeats. You know, it's just not in fashion to defeat a country militarily, kill all the men and boys, take the women as slaves, and move your veterans onto the conquered territory to establish settlements. So how else do you fleece someone if you can't fleece your enemies because of world opinion and it's repercussions? You fleece the taxpayers. Your own tax base becomes the enemy. You set up vast nation building programs then when they fail, you make sure that your enemy captures your military equipment that you supplied the puppet forces with. Then your military industrial complex is happy and gives out huge bonus checks in the form of campaign contributions to the scumbags who should be representing the people. But the USA hasn't really prosecuted a real total war against anyone since WW2. I assure you, as meaningless as it has become in today's world, there is not a country on earth that the USA could not totally destroy in short order, if they decided to commit to total war. Even in total war without nukes, if the idea was just to win, and destroy everything -- you like myself may consider it an ill-placed priority -- but nobody comes close. Not even close. It's like comparing a Tesla model s plaid to a Chevy Bolt.
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  1797.  @antoniopalmero4063 Test drive it. You most probably will be able to dial in the firmness setting.
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  1798.  @move2003ny  You are correct, there are empty mansions everywhere there are viable mansions. But as an investment the maintenance and security must be a killer. In China there are whole cities full of empty investment properties that are falling apart at an unbelievable rate.
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  1799. That's it for the Atlantic. If they can employ this asshole they can do without the patronage of Bernie supporters.
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  1800. Wrong again, 2022 1.8 million is THE number.
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  1801. Of course the sky is not falling, if like yourself, you have your head in the ground. If however you have some sense of the climatologistal history of earth and how seemingly small changes in atmospheric gasses led to catastrophes over and over through the ages, you realize that keeping you head subterra is not a viable position.
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  1802. Anyone who presents Donald Trump as pro-democracy has their head up their ass.
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  1803. That's pretty stupid, some thirty year olds are demented and some hundred year olds are lucid. You need to learn the difference between chronological and biological age. Or maybe it's too late for you to learn anything new.
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  1804. They do -- sometimes, but they spin it as much as any other news source does.
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  1805. Where I live it takes about five minutes to change you electric usage to totally green and it actually costs less than the regular mix. That's great, but the fact that the vast majority of people have never taken five minutes to help reduce CO2 by making the switch and save money to boot sort of give you the real reading of the public not giving a flying F about the whole thing. And that is the real shame of it.
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  1806.  @olgkesakov7445  Your comment makes absolutely no sense, even as irony. You are probably a Russian state worker, or just a dupe with a template of nonsense overlaying your perception of reality.
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  1807.  @Hot_Topic  Congratulations you have won the Stupid Comment of the Day Award.
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  1808. Democracy Now's videos that accompany the reading of the news has reached a new level of non sequiturism.
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  1809. jGood point. Billions of imports: have they all been sprayed?
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  1810.  obicapa  Give the reference for your claim. Die, not dye.
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  1811.  @YDdraigGoch43  I would say "You figure it out" but apparently that is not the case.
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  1812.  @YDdraigGoch43  The Chicago Manual of Style says that "unspoken discourse" can be either in quotations marks or not according to the author's preference.
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  1813.  @YDdraigGoch43  You can pretend you didn't get it with all your posturing, but you got it. Thus all the diversionary defensiveness. Bye trivial one.
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  1814.  @johnwattdotca  The countries you are extolling have their situation because of the USA not in spite of it. There are cities in the USA that you don't need to lock your doors too. I agree the police should not be allowed to carry firearms, as they have proven themselves incapable of discriminating what amounts to a threat. What you do not understand is history. All great powers have constant strife in the areas that border their control areas. There has never been a time of such widespread peace and development as there has been under the hedgemony of the USA. Not ever. Violence on a woldwide scale is down precipitously, weatlh is up, and lifespan has increased. These are the facts, not your critical condemnation, which is probably a personal problem that you are projecting.
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  1815. The Quincy Institute, like the pope, has zero divisions. They are distinguished, at least, in the fact that they have been subsidized by both Koch and Soros: boggy-men from both extremes. Interestingly enough, despite this, they like Ike, are in opposition to the undue influence of the MIC on the course of political decisions. Apparently they are distinguished among DC think tanks by their policy against accepting funding from foreign governments.
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  1816. I could understand if FSD were the only issue but that is far from the case. People seem to think that an EV is an EV, nothing could be further from the truth. On the YouTube channel What Car? They tested several EVs in a video titled How far can electric cars REALLY go?? – we drive 12 until they DIE! Tesla, BYD & more. I would put the link but sometime that causes my comments to be deleted by the YouTube AI overlords. So if you are interested in what distinguishes Teslas from other EVs you can watch Monroe Live and see the engineers astonished by Tesla's tech time after time, but that is really only appealing to people who like tech. Or you can watch something like the vid I recommend which explains why Tesla is superior to a Merc EV that actually has a few miles better range at a 20k higher price. No other company can match Tesla technology, though the smart ones (like Toyota and some in China) are attempting to copy it. That is not to even mention the fact that some people pay nothing to charge their EVs and even power their homes because of powerwall arbitrage agreements with power companies. I have seen people astonished when their monthly electric bill was less than two dollars after being nothing or even negative because of this program. You can always buy five year old tech from a German company for more than a Tesla. The same companies that have cheated for years all the people on earth with their computer scams on exhaust emissions. Volvo make fine cars but like many "European" OEM their evs are made in China, not necessarily a bad thing, if you want to support the CCP. Thought they are still a decade behind Tesla and will never catch up because Tesla is pulling further ahead by the week.
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  1817. Never heard that but I did hear a NYC conman say over and over that we will be mining "Clean Coal". Just another lie from the champion of lies. Over 30k confirmed lies during his term in office.
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  1818.  @stefan2796 "Clean coal" -- one of 30,000 confirmed LIES told while in office.
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  1819.  @TS-jm7jm  Democracy does not work well in a culture that is contaminated day and night by media spin and lies, which would be, just about everywhere -- especially the culture of lies that is MAGA. When confronted with purely factual information, with a large enough n, the the average of all conclusions (guesses really) will be more accurate than the most accurate single guess. How do we know this? Science.
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  1820. It doesn't matter why it is "because". It will make your life easier and more secure and a lot more fun when you only do what you want to.
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  1821.  @murrygondwana7260  Yep. Jobs will change, but only those who want to will work. Some will have a problem adjusting to a world of abundance were they are free to pursue their interests, the Amish perhaps. But they will be free to carry on as they wish, but without the threat of need or loss.
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  1822. What happened? They acquired it. Where do you think the dry process came from?
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  1823.  @Earwaxfire909  yep
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  1824. Not gonna happen. It was just classic Trump negotiating technique to get your vote. Obama deported twice as many illegals as Trump did.
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  1825. It's only a matter of time. When the bunkers on their private island are under water this may change.
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  1826.  @donHooligan  Apparently you have been missing much.
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  1827. HERE'S YOUR FACT CHECK RIGHT HERE! Most important news of the year: Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year. Corporate News = more spin based on corporate motives and crickets. LOOK! Click on this link and learn the truth about health care -- all genuine, all documented with interview. Not that facts matter to the Trump cultists but they may to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514
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  1828. If Trump wins you may not have that 2028 problem. Prepare to kiss the ring of a delusional fool whose evil daddy left him money and insanity.
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  1829. Perhaps we could learn what would work by what worked so well during the hellish spread of Islam. You simply take a sword and put it to their necks and say, "Convert to atheism or die." Then brainwash them for generations and you will end up with true believer atheists. Islam and it's adherents differ from other modern religions in that it is a terrorist movement and has been from the very beginning. Most of today's Moslems are the descendants of Christians who were given the choice of converting or extreme abuse or death. Moslems were taught by mohammed to be meek until they are strong enough to be viscous. Learn some history, Islam is a plague on humanity that has set us back a thousand years and loves nothing more than selling little white girls into slavery for sexual abuse. At least that is what history tells us, and since you are so concerned about how history will judge us, perhaps you should do some more objective judging yourself.
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  1830.  The Loner Millionaire  Quite right: they never recognize or mention the fact that the peoples they refer to as indgenious were, in precolumbian times, continually at war with each other. And thier methods were totally politically incorrect and brutal. So brutal that the entire idea of surrendering to a victor was not even considered an option. Nobody seemed to want to be tortured as public entertainment for days on end, and handed over to the women and children to have sport with the last of you. If one was lucky they didn't eat you. Of course now they are peaceful environmentalists. Right -- They were such great environmentalist that one of the major extinction events just happened to coincide with their prenetration of the Americas. Just like everywhere else on earth. Gone also are the early European horse tribes. So gone: that they are generally not even known. What really makes me laugh is the way that self-proclaimed sophisticalted intellectuals, take claims of sacred mountains and special sacred lands seriously. Either you see the Buddha in a stick of dung (which is to say that everything is sacred if you are) or your are just spiniing bullshit.
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  1831. So you finally found out that the public is being bullshitted about the virus. The rate that healthy young males are getting the virus is just slightly less than people over 65. I think it was five percent less. So hey lets all go to the beach for a prolonged spring break!
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  1832. What about the parasites that are spread by anilingus, and then inspire the host of a podcast to tell the world that he and his wife have reached a new level of intimacy by licking assholes? Think that might be a parasite controlling your tongue Joe?
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  1833. You information is vastly incorrect. Take just mined nickel, for example, Russia is third, Indonesia is first and produces three hundred percent more nickel than Russia. New Caledonia is fourth, a tiny island country and it produces two thirds the total mined nickel that the huge country of Russia does. Tesla has recently signed contracts with a New Caledonia based company. In lithium Russia is not even in the game. It doesn't even appear in Kitco's top seven and the seventh is not all that big a producer while Australia is number one by far. In aluminium it is third, should say was third, because with the present situation I would bet that Russian production is falling off what it was. Similarly in uranium mining Russia was sixth, but perhaps no longer. So of all the metals you mention, your statement was only correct for two of them. Gordon Johnson like accuracy of information. Well done.
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  1834. Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting in an annual average of 345 deaths; 1,300 injuries; and $1.1 billion in property loss. 1 These highway vehicle fires accounted for 13 percent of fires responded to by fire departments across the nation. Gas vehicles bursting into flame. How many stories has Bloomburg done on this? Could it be none? Why is that? One Tesla has a fire a year ago and you covered it extensively. Do you realize how biased you are or are you really that stupid? Tesla is going to show you all that you are just hairballs stuck in the throat of progress and safety. And leave you knowing that, "If I had only bought Tesla I would be a millionaire." Your show is crap. The less people listen to Bloomberg and its ilk, the better their portfolios do.
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  1835. Subs are on the way.
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  1836. Odds are that this came out of a lab in China. And the Chinese stonewall, and the world just ignores the evidence.
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  1837.  @joeybleu66  You need to give up the commercial media lies Joey. The media is not there to inform you, it is there to sell ad space/time. Tesla does not spend the billions per year that the other OEMs do on ads. Almost everything you read in the commercial media about Tesla is a lie. In the media attempt to both profit from the small minds who hate Musk because he is wealthy and draws clicks and views, and shake down Tesla into spending billions per year on ads like the other auto OEMS. Just like basing it's value on it's EV division is a fools game. Tesla commercial energy division makes more than Tesla EV, for instance, and it has a dozen internal startups each of which would dwarf present Tesla value if they come to fruition.
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  1838.  @scampbell8136  Because it is his period that is fogging his mind and allowing him to support a rabid buffoon.
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  1839. Stupid comment of the day award! Congratulations you had stiff competition today.
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  1840.  @JR-zm2yu  You're incorrect - wake up please.
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  1841. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  1842. At 16:40 Bill says. . . In America: "They don't cut down the tall trees." Obviously lives in a different America than Christopher Columbus, George Washington, and Elon Musk's public personas do. While it is obvious to me at least, that if even one of Musk's far-out projects reaches fruition: Self-driving electric cars, space exploitation and exploration at an exciting pace, a computer/human interface, affordable AI directed humanoid robots, affordable internet access from remote locations, his threatened age of abundance, he will have achieved an Odin-like historical stature, beyond the likes of Henry Ford, Edison, and perhaps even Einstein. I personally can attest to the salubrious effect of an age of abundance to one's outlook, having spent part of my life in the so-called Age of Affluence, back in the sixties and seventies. In retrospect I am told, by the media experts it was not really an age of affluence but one of high inflation and many cultural challenges. A laughable group at best (those media darlings). Affluence is mostly a state of mind, or to be more honest, a state of hormones which inculcates a reciprocal state of mind. Status, and power are two tried and true ways to enhance this hormonal state even into advanced age. But it's not the only way. Basically that's what the sixties was all about: breaking the bonds of group imposed templates that regulated neuropeptide/endorphin enrichment of the subjective state. All the tropes of the "Age of Aquarius" are related to freeing the individual from these biochemical shackles posing as cultural norms: psychedelic drugs, spirituality and personal growth, humanistic psychological movements, experimental sexuality, and on and on. Of course for better or worse, these organically derived cultural norms had been both themselves mutating and directing this internal metabolic rewards system in humans since before the first non-instinctual behavior in our species, and like most things human, have their origins in the so-called "survival instinct".
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  1843. You guys didn't really think that Biden was going to be anything but a shill for Wall Street and industrial polluters did you? Trump was a train wreck, Biden is a dump truck run into a crowd of holiday shoppers. The lesser of two evils can always do evil that a show-off like Trump couldn't get away with. Bill Clinton and Obama are the poster boys for fucking over the little guy to the benefit of the banksters. No conservative could ever have gotten away with the shit they pulled. Nothing says co-opted like handing the economic "recovery" over to the people who caused the problem in the first place (so they could pay themselves Christmas bonuses with some of it). Perhaps we could pay Obama a few hundred thousand to talk about it for fifteen minutes or so.
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  1844. The USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narrative that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues including this one (though not quite as bad as most). You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and performance in virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  1845.  @Custodian123 Have you ever invested in Samsung stock?
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  1846.  @Custodian123 I use to have a South Korean ETF as a way to invest in Samsung without the usual problems of investing in a SK corp. It went nowhere. TSMC is another matter, own it to this day, finally moving. But I see no assurance that either of these companies will provide the chips under discussion. What makes you think so? Is there even a need for the advanced 3 or 2 nm architecture that Samsung or TSMC are capable of? Doesn't seem so.
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  1847. The whole idea of a piece of land being sacred to the Native Americans is stupid and just not accurate. Most traditional Native Americans consider all land sacred, so your reporting presents a false narrative, not just to others but to the Native A,mericans themselves. who now believe all manner of nonsense about themselves, like they were always peaceful woke environmentalists who love nature and one another, while NOTHING could be further from the truth, well maybe somethings could be further from the truth like the belief that Trump is anything but a toxic conman. Besides, in reality, either everything is sacred because a person has evolved consciously and sees reality, or it is just one of a thousand different superstitions about all manner of nonsense, held by confused people supporting their particular guess about things that are beyond them. I hardily support the protests against pumping tar sand oil and other environmental acts of irresponsibility, but I also hardily denounce nonsense even when it is presented in terms of tradition and the "sacred". It's nice, it's romantic, and it fits in with the emotional narrative that Hollywood and mush media like to present as of late, but it is still nonsense.
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  1848. In inflation adjusted dollars the least expensive model 3 is over 5% less expensive now than it was in 2017!
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  1849.  @eduardopena5893  Doesn't matter, the stats by the insurance companies went by fires per hundred K units. Look it up.
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  1850. Your comment is irrelevant.
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  1851. If you are too far ahead of the herd it's the same as being too far behind the herd. You wanna be with the herd but at the front of it. You can be totally correct about how things will go, but as reality attests, perception is everything in a land where all value is relative. Fortunately Tesla has too much reality going for it to be held to the predilections of manipulated troglodytes who go by the financial media narratives. I know there are the institutions and whales, but there are so many people who bought TSLA because they bought a Tesla, lots. Also lots of people who can now afford all the Teslas they want, because the bought TSLA. The average American is in the dark, they just do not realize the demand for Teslas. These cars are so far beyond all other EVs that they really cannot be considered the same generation of EV. It's like you can have an F22 Raptor or you can have an F14 Tomcat, but the price you pay will not necessarily reflect the quality of your ride. In fact in many cases, though seriously inferior the F14 costs more. Unknown to them, the buying public does not realize the discontinuity between a Tesla and other EVs. They are barely the same thing. The fact that second hand Teslas are commonly sold for more than a new Tesla costs should tell you everything. But the reality of most of the public is a mosaic of attachments to varying degrees of a fantasy sold to them by ads and the companies that are in business only to sell ad time or space. That includes all of the financial networks. They hate Tesla, because it does not pay the hundreds of millions vig that the old OEMs cough up, to present their dreams to you, wrapped in emotionally alluring psychologically manipulative images, which effect you even if you know about the techniques used. Tesla does not advertise, they do not need to. Tesla owners sell Teslas to their friends by letting them drive them. The media would have loved to see Tesla fail, dry up on the vine, and they did everything they could to insure it, with false reports, thousands of word and minutes spent on one fire that occurred because of misuse and apparently drunkenness, but not one word about the thousands of people who die each year because they are burned up in a gas car. And on and on. But it didn't work, because ultimately Tesla is too real. Listen those of you who still swallow the media contrived swill they serve up to you as car fan mags and shows. The number ones selling car model in Germany is a Tesla model 3. Not the number one EV. The number one car of any type. That's issue one. It should tell even the holdouts something. number two. YOu can sell your Tesla for more than you payed for it. Because so many people want them that it can take months to get one. Tesla keep raising the price but it doesn't matter, they are still all sold out for months. Number three they have the most owner satisfaction of any car. The can run a million miles without anything but tire changes and some have. In the future you may not be able to buy a Tesla because it will be better for Tesla to just rent them by the mile as robotaxis. But people don't understand yet that if FSD is achieved it will be as big a breakthrough as was the steam engine. If the bot comes about, it will be a state change unparalleled in all of Human history. Overvalued -- . . . Really?
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  1852. A single cell failing will not set off a chain reaction in a tesla. Fires in EVs are minuscule compared to ICE.
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  1853. Everything he said about the cartels can be found in the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, which is several years old.
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  1854. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases, Fact: the biiggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one action you are capable of that will help, because you have a flesh addiction that you cannot overcome: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death.
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  1855. Rogan logic: "If assholes aren't unusual, and all animals have assholes, why is it unusual for a plant to have an asshole?"
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  1856. Lots and lots of women so hot they would fry your brain have tried and continue to try.
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  1857. ​ @malikahmad8170  I was thinking that much of the land that the Jews purchased in Palestine was through Turkish absentee landlords at an extreme discount after the British took control and the Ottomans had lost in WW1, and was going to say as much, but I decided to look it up first and found out that I wasn't really wrong in this belief, but that it was a really complex issue, and Jewish organizations businesses and even private citizens were largely prevented from buying land, or at the best, highly restricted. This of course led to all sorts of shenanigans with strawman buyers, and many other means by which Jewish owners got around such restrictions. The whole think was a mess for many reasons. And the British, who were administering the region, was feeling pressure from certain powerful Jews, like Lord Rothschild who legitimized the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine in the Bafour declaration. Then the Zionists radicals blew up the British administrative offices in Palestine, and the British had more or less had it with the whole deal and pulled out. So it really seems that it was the British who allowed the establishment of Israel "legally". However it was also the British who enforced the restrictions on Jewish land purchases in Palestine. So there was really no country there just an administered territory. They were supposed to be organizing the country of Palestine, but when the British pulled out, The Jews in Palestine declared Israel an independent nation {which is distinct from a "homeland"} and civil war ensued. So -- the British did it. Sort of. But if there had been no British administration of the territory after the Ottoman rule disappeared: Jewish interests and parties would have just bought up everything anyway. The main problem is, once again -- religion.
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  1858.  @Papanox_  First half irreverent, second half just a partisan story.
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  1859. And all that: but you guys are still dealing with the puppets and not the puppet master. Whose name would be Robert Mercer. Who didn't want to pay his share fare of taxes enough to put Trump in office and support a hundred really fake new sites that started all this shit? Robert Mercer.
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  1860. There is a reason why some people think that increased complexity is the way forward when a quantum leap in decreased complexity is also available that offers all the advantages: stupidity.
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  1861. I call it the Tesla model T. With the T being the Tesla logo that appears on their cars.
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  1862. Will do. Thanks for the only really worthwhile comment (including my own).
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  1863. You have wamped the tar-baby right in the face Bare Rabbit.
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  1864. Today's new form of ignorance is not a lack of factual info, it is immunity to facts. Due to the faulty way the total of the greenhouse gases generated by animal ag was calculated, it is now found that the situation is even worse than it was presumed. 87% of green house gases are generated by animal ag. If you buy, consume, or produce the products of animal agriculture, quite simply, you have no meaningful stance against climate change -- you are doing the opposite of helping. The fact that animal ag is overwhelmingly responsible for climate change makes all the crying about car and jet emissions, and dirty electricity production -- important -- but diversionary. 87% of green house gases are generated by animal ag. Animal Ag is the elephant shi$$ing in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSc_51xR8sQ
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  1865. You obviously know nothing about what America was in the past before the fake drug war began to erode our freedom and rights.
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  1866.  @andrewg2024  The internet is a big place. Social media can be brutal, but if you go to science and educational based venues it is quite mild-mannered. I am usually the most offensive numbskull in the exchanges in those places.
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  1867.  @aaronmatthewsalinas1408  lol, you have proved to the world you are a brain washed imbecile.
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  1868. In the seventh level of hell it is All Trump All the time. The apocalypso is at hand.
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  1869. Hahahaha -- yeh -- if you are a multi millionaire or a moron. Which are you? My bet is -- moron.
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  1870. And the winner is . . . wait for it . . . Tesla Plaid -- made in America
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  1871. It's all a complete con job. Repubs and Demos
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  1872.  @SSchradle  About a third of the US losses in Vietnam. 15k
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  1873. This whole thing is so childish it's absurd. Unfortunately the people suffer because of the leaders lack of wisdom. Trump will run the economy into the ground. Prepare for a world of princes and paupers and not much else.
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  1874.  @rhodesphotoco  Nonexistent?
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  1875. Sacredness does not reside in places or objects. Sacredness has only ever resided in the possibility of a quantum leap in the functioning of the nervous and limbic systems of man. This is reflected in such phrases as "The enlightened see the Buddha in a piece of dung." Human progress and the scientific advancement of humanity has been the hostage of ignorance and superstition for far too long. I am sure that many of the protestors feel to the depths of their hearts that there is something sacred about this mountain in particular. This is a delusion. If they were really concerned with the "sacred" they would only be concerned with the possibility of bringing about the evolution of their own conscious awareness. This confrontation has nothing to do with the sacred. It is really just a pissing contest. The difference between this and most other protests is that this is based on lies and delusions, no matter how traditional the lies have become. The sooner humanity rids itself of all the flying spaghetti monsters, the better. If you cannot feel the sacred equally whereever you are, you are just an unenlightened imbecile who has never really pursued the matter to any significant depth.
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  1876.  @markthomas7279  Besides you?
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  1877.  @lasha4409  I don't believe ANYTHING the police or government say. Though I was being scarcastic when I made that comment. I believe that most of the actual deaths by firearms are suicide.
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  1878.  @lasha4409  the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Center for Health Statistics reports 38,390 deaths by firearm, of which 24,432 were by suicide and 13,958 were homicides. Despite the unpredictable events that lead to fatal shootings, police nationwide have shot and killed almost the same number of people annually — nearly 1,000 — since The Post began its project. So about 13k out of 38k were not suicides or police shootings. No lol is approprate. How do you think this 13k compares to the number of people killed in auto accidents caused by assholes who are either drunk or on their cellphones? Personally if I had to die I would rather be shot in the chest or head, than be cut in half by a piece of jagged sheet metal and left to bleed out in the snow on the side of a highway. But that's just my way of showing how the truly horrific can be muted by cultural expectations and instilled fear.
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  1879.  @lasha4409  I go with the figures I quoted.
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  1880. Suggestion: If you are going to protest and you are near police, do not keep your feet in the normal standing position when they are near enough to shove you. Keep one foot a few feet ahead of the other pointed forward and the back one at a right angle to it and when they come near brace yourself with your back foot. You can still be shoved but you will not so easily topple.
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  1881. Of Bizarro World.
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  1882. That doesn't matter if all the cars Tesla makes are sold months in advance. Which is the case.
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  1883. Allow me to quote Carlos Dwa, at least paraphrase him from The Unwriten Book: Xellex. (Probably the most esoteric Sifi novel ever written.) "The inherent deception in all conceptions of consciousness can be traced to the suffix "ness". This is sometimes referred to as the "ness" lock monster." In other words the concept of consciousness is an illusion. It has the same relationship to being conscious as the ridiculous concept of "runningness" does to running. If you can't see this you will forever be lost in the thought-centric associative mind which you refer to as "I" but which is not only not you but has no actual existence outside of it's quite automatic functioning.
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  1884. Especially those that are compelled to buy the raw materials at market spot. Considering the supply problems, the seeming return to the good old days of industrialized war, and China's dominance in production: strategic metals and rare earths are almost guaranteed to be scarce and or expensive for years, unless the war powers program in the USA actually addresses this problem and is not just another pork barrel contrivance.
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  1885. And I quote: though I know not whom I quote, I quote none the less, because these truths are self-evident. The “billionaire” who hides his tax returns. The “genius” who hides his college grades. The “businessman” who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 years. The “playboy” who pays for sex. The “Christian” who doesn’t go to church. The “philanthropist” who defrauds charity. The “patriot” who dodged the draft. And attacks dead Veterans and their widows. The “innocent man” who refuses to testify. Trump Translations "Many People have told me" = Voices in my head and fictional people have complimented me "A lot of people don't know" = I just learned something most people already knew "Believe me" = I just lied "In Fact" = I'm about to lie "He's a great guy" = I will deny ever knowing this person after they begin to tell the truth about me "MAGA" = Making my pockets fatter off the American tax payers "Nobody knew" = Everyone knew except me "Huge" = moderate to below average in size "Loser" = someone who makes me feel inferior due to their talent or accomplishments "Policy Briefing" = Turning on Fox News "Liar" = Someone telling the truth about me "Fake News" = Real news
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  1886. Everybody (even politicians) knows what's wrong with the political system and have for over fifty years and nothing has been done to change things. The lynch pin of all that is wrong with the USA is campaign finance. All private money must be out of politics entirely. No funds of any kind from the private sector to politicians ever without jail time. What is now "business as usual" was not so long ago criminal activity. All campaign contributions are bribes, all PACs are anti-American. America is now owned by a few families, that is why you have such problems. All billionaires are inherently evil because no one makes and keeps that much money without being a scumbag. Think about it this way. If I gave you a dollar every second for twenty four hours a day it would take about two weeks for me to give you a million dollars. It would take about thirty two years to give you a billion dollars at the same rate. It would take 31,700 years to give you a trillion dollars. When our republic was founded severe restrictions were put upon the establishment of corporations. They had to be for the benefit of the pubic and they were only licensed to operate for thirty years at a time. We are now seeing the reason for this. The founding fathers knew that if wealth concentrated like it had in the hands of the royals and bankers of Europe it would be the end of the power of the people in our democratic constitutional republic. By the way the only real democracy on earth is Switzerland, a place with lots of firearms in civilian hands and no mass shootings. A place where heroin addicts are give drugs in a clinical setting which has no drug lords or junkies ripping off everything that isn't nailed down to support their habits. But we decided to do the same things that don't work over and over. We are idiots.
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  1887.  @tonysu8860  No Su, you are very wrong: We are not talking roding from space here with masses of depleted uranium or tungsten , or a rail-gun firing a depleated unranium projectile at a specific target, which would still only amount to localized damage, we are talking about a quite fragile missile that is totally dependent on its warhead for destructive potency. The Russians have been using hypersonic missiles in Ukranie with exactly the effect that Zeihan has reported. So you imagination is incorrect, and Zeihans analysis based on actual observation is most correct. Your idea that the kinetic force alone would penetrate defenses that might even resist nuclear explosion is pure nonsense, and fails to consider the most important factors involved in kinetic energy, speed alone is not enough without the necessary mass. All ICBMs are hypersonic, yet rely on nuclear weapons for destructive power, because if it was just the hypersonic missile alone it would, with luck destroy a building or two, instead of an entire city. Read and learn the truth instead of the fantasies you now believe. US Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley said the Russian use of hypersonic weapons in Ukraine was not having “really significant or game-changing effects” during a House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing. “Other than the speed of the weapon, in terms of its effect on a given target, we are not seeing really significant or game-changing effects to date with the delivery of the small number of hypersonics that the Russians have used,” Milley said. A senior US defense official said on Tuesday that Russia had launched between 10 and 12 hypersonic missiles against Ukraine so far. Here is a video of a shopping mall that was hit by a russian hypersonic missile. As you can see it is mostly still standing though the explosion from the warhead did set it on fire. No quantum leap in damage over a regular HE guided missile - despite the russian propaganda and hype. https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/video/2022/05/11/russian-missile-strikes-obliterates-ukrainian-shopping-mall/
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  1888.  @theincantrix1144  I can only think of one time the USA has been invaded. That would be the war of 1812. Do you know of others? Just thought of another, though I am not really sure we were actually the USA when Canada invaded.
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  1889.  @joeedwards6362  My pleasure Joe.
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  1890. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpC09elt3ZrXofamJml6Caw
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  1891. You are not alone. My cousin became a multimillionaire in a year, when I questioned him about the changes in his life, he said the only thing he regrets is buying a BMW. His quote is that every time you pass the dealership you may as well just throw hundred dollar bills out the window.
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  1892. The person responsible for this was George Bush -- directly responsible. He ignored the facts, ignored the reality on the ground and decided to make his buddies in the defense industry and gov. contractors rich. Also note that George Bush has been supported monetarily his entire adult life by Saudi proxies. Nonetheless, your conclusion that the military potential of the USA has been demonstrated anywhere after WW2 is faulty. You conclusion that technology cannot overcome bravery and determination is totally romantic fantasy. I hope that the military potential of the USA is never fully demonstrated, but if it is, you will be astonished by what you see.
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  1893.  @silverkerbal  When I was a teen he US population was 195 million, now it is well over 300 million. Not what I would call shrinking.
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  1894.  @wongtong754  Except that massive use of nuclear forces is not possible unless you want to destroy civilization with a nuclear winter.
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  1895.  @wilhelmheinzerling5341  Very true. Most people are blind to the reality that both China and the USA are fascist. But of the two of them the USA is more socialist. China has no social security, no medicare, basically no safety net.
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  1896. Biden thinks the unions built the middle class. Truth: the unions built part of the middle class, small family owned businesses built a bigger part of it, the GI bill and a wave of professionals that would have otherwise not had a higher education built a very large part of it. In case someone missed out on the Welcome to Earth Orientation: The one and only motivation of any one who is part of the power-elite, whether political, or business, or religious, or military, is to maintain and increase their power. Doesn't matter if they are a communist or a foaming at the mouth libertarian, that is their only motivation: no matter what they tell the world or themselves. The news media and public officials will now break into small groups and say stupid sh!t until you are all numb, . . . and not comfortably. . . .
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  1897. Hybrid are more complex, require more maintence, and are less safe than an ICE car and much more so to an EV. Increasing complexity is just stupid when reducing it has better results.
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  1898. I don't know what the chrome thing is but soon they will all be ceramic coated instead of polymer, and lose their present speed limitations, and astronomical maintenance costs.
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  1899. And Bezos is correct. Eventually heavy industry will be off-planet solar powered.
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  1900.  @whygohome172  So true. In fact when little donny first contracted Covid it was a real possibiliy that if he was going to die from it he would launch nukes because if he died the world would have ended anyway.
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  1901.  @whygohome172  And it is more than obvious to everyone but those with authoritarian personality disorder, which comprises the bulk of his dumb sleep-walking supporters who are not one of the multimillionares that he is showering with money.
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  1902.  @TruthHurts1871  It got really bad from Reagan on. Every president and administration after Carter (himself far from perfect but at least a man of conscience) was the no-choice that the banksters and their puppets gave us. The last real candidate for the people was Nader. Now it is so bad that the entire elected government is a farce. It's all an inside job, that is destroying everything you learned to love about America in grade-school.
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  1903.  @TruthHurts1871  Market is crap right now. Especially with the new rise in covid in Europe. Dollar is up today. What amazes me is that gold and especially silver have crashed too. You would think that it would be up when stocks are down, but no -- JP won't allow that. Biggest ever fine of a billion dollars for their gold/silver futures fuckery and why would they stop -- they made ten billion by cheating and were fined one billion. That will really dissuade them from further fuckery.
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  1904. Money talks. The object of the media is not to inform you, it is to sell ad space/time. Tesla does not give them money and is hurting the companies that do. What else could be expected?
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  1905.  @whocaresdude2001  Really classic, two casinos -- bankrupt, contractors not paid, banned from nonprofit organization because of theft of donations, university scam, business that benefited from monumental tax breaks and government subs despite his rhetoric, failure at everything he tried to sell. Lies on everything he has ever done. That is classic Trump. How surprised can you possibly be when he runs the economy into the ground and hands it off to the next administration. If he hasn't manipulated the idiots who idolize him, to stay in power or have his family in power permanently.
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  1906. Michael Moore's movie was just a theory anyhow. I don't see the big deal. However if Chris Hedges or Jimmy is muted I take personal offense, but I just don't see it on my end. I am aware of anything you put on YouTube right away. I don't do Twitter because it is for twits with little sound-byte thoughts, and I don't do Facebook because is it is like undermining yourself.
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  1907.  @dougdiamond5774  My view is that Elon would take exception to being framed as any kind of "ist".
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  1908. Everyone already knows that VW group sponsors the enviornmentalist that have been against Tesla from the beginning. The German auto industry is like the mafia. Just look at the history of the cheating they have done on environmental issues. like diesel emissions computer scams, just to mention one.
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  1909. There are three kinds of people who still support this farce of a human at this point: Multimillionaires (for good reason) foreign active measures workers, and morons who think he is on their side. The only sides there are is the power-elite and their sycophants and everyone else. And you asshole who think there are two opposing parties are the fools who make his madness possible. The democrats and the republicans are owned by the same people you morons.
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  1910.  @jenniferr9624  True enough, but there is no, "There is no god" either. The reality of the situation is not only more wonderful than we imagine, it is more wonderful than we are capable of imagining. Just thought I would venture that silly statement despite the impossibility of it conveying what it I intend it to.
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  1911. No wars = you'll wish you had taken care of business when you could have. Although the neocons were just like trump = stupid and blind to larger considerations: charging ahead on the basis of school yard ideas about things. Although Trump has a long way to go if he intends to downgrade the USA as much a Bush did. Two daddy's boys given everything on a silver platter, who convince a desperate public that they were populists while being extreme elitists and con-men.
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  1912. Well said. And before it was the Pandora Papers it was the Panama Papers, which reported exactly the same thing. And this great revelation amounted to nothing real. I expect the same from the present revelation. Power corrupts. We all know this and continue to ignore it. Power should never be given to anyone who seeks it. Even the Greeks knew this a few thousand years ago.
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  1913.  @doujinflip  Interesting thoughts.
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  1914. Lock them up for using the evil bean coffee instead.
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  1915. The USA did not deserve to have Ralph as president. If Ralph had been elected I proffer that we would not have been involved in two heinous, unjust and ruinous wars, and the crash of 08 would have been a non event because he would have cracked down hard on the financial industries with justice and wrath.
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  1916. 18:34 China has not done less than Russia and Iran by way of expansionism. China took the entire country of Tibet by force. Which is over four times the size of Ukraine.
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  1917. Most important news of the year: Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year. Corporate News = more spin based on corporate motives and crickets. LOOK! Click on this link and learn the truth about health care -- all genuine, all documented with interview. Not that facts matter to the Trump cultists but they may to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514
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  1918. The Stanford Prisoner Experiment should tell us everything we need to know about giving people authority and uniforms and weapons and telling them to enforce order. Even when they know it's an act they become extremely abusive. And in case you didn't know it. . . it's all an act.
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  1919. I have been as critical as anyone is of Joe, but only on his own show. I love Joe, and his self-contradictory struggle to maintain at least the appearance of the open minded searcher of sorts. The media needs more people like JOe. Sure he eats meat and likes to see people beat the shit out of each other, but his YOutube channel is were I first came across Rhonda Patrick, David Sinclair, Bernie, Krouse, every thing from cutting edge physicist to numb skulls like that right wing Milo idiot. I check out the show and if it's a comedian or a fighter which is more than half the time I just listen to something else. Joe is just susceptible to the testosterone agenda and looks up to warriors like a kid. He is ever so slowly becoming aware of the impression of hypocrisy and unowned cognitive dissonance that he skirts on so many subjects. But so what if he give a stage to squirrely mofos that make their living by telling stories that some shalow PC kneejerks don't like. His guests are sometimes great, sometimes horribly offensive to people's intelligence, and mostly like irrelevant unless you think that comedians and fighters hold valuable opinions. Joe is mostly a stoner hanging with a big variety of people, within the bell curve anyway (I mean he really never has any guests that are actually outside of the consensus spread of relevancy. People are just assholes, they accept some story that fits their feelings and hormones and can't see beyond the self--involved little critters they are.
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  1920. For you James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lGVimLK58g
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  1921. Try to buy stock in Samsung and you will probably be in for a surprise. Individual shares of Samsung stock must be purchased either over-the-counter as a "pink sheet" stock — which means your purchase isn't regulated — or on the Korea Exchange (KRX), which entails opening a South Korean brokerage account. OR you will have to buy them through an ETF which will bundle them with other stocks you may not want.
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  1922.  @mmorris2830 Wow, thanks for the blinding flash of the obvious.
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  1923.  @Aron2063  Not a story at all Gretel, simply a cut and paste of the dictionary definition of the word you used incorrectly. Your welcome.
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  1924. I totally support 2A rights, but to fear someone breaking into your house (and I have had a drunk kick my door down with a machete in his hand that I shot) is just ridiculous. In fact I would say that eating at McDonalds presents far more danger to a person than both terrorists and criminals.
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  1925.  @emceeboogieboots1608  Not to mention the fact that most are not likely to "indulge" more than very infrequently, unless micro-dosing. We have come a long way since Tim Leary was Nixon's most dangerous man. But not nearly far enough.
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  1926.  @Ahhhhhhchoo  Yeah, nothing could go wrong there.
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  1927.  @StephenGillie  Or sugar, or coffee.
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  1928.  @swankydanky8025  Sure: I have a very big bucket. It goes all the way from table sugar, to peyote, to opium, etc. etc. Even includes such esoteric legends as obadriene, levo dromirane, and quaaludes. Bet you won't find those at your friendly neighborhood dispensary, or dealer. In the bucket that that bucket is in, I include social media, words in general, sports, you know, anything that that throws those neuropeptides into the breach, but is not directly survival related.
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  1929.  @Defective1313  You have a "personal responsibility" equation? You are delusional. The only reason crime springs up around drugs, is because they are illegal, and anything that is prohibited by law becomes very profitable to deal in and is by definition a "criminal activity". You are correct, it isn't the substances, it is the laws, and I never said anything else. I personally would rather live next door to a junkie that has a steady free supply, than a tweeker in search of some fast-cash.
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  1930.  @maxwellblackwell5045  Yeah, however neither psilocybin nor mescaline are synthetic drugs -- einstein. Here's a clue for you: just because something can be synthesized does not mean it is not a naturally occurring substance.
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  1931. Try to overthrow the American government and you get probation -- if you are a right-wing nut. Grow ten pot plants in Reading PA, and you get crushed under a bulldozer by state police who then lie that you voluntarily crawled under the treads. The police obviously need more funding, for militarization and to pay the fines resulting from their brain-dead draconian actions.
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  1932. Obviously Taiwan needs nukes. Maybe they already have them.
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  1933. If Trump wins you can change that to "deformed".
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  1934. Gary Clark Jr is awesome: to me he is tied for second best blues/rock with Eric Gales. Bonamassa is number one. Listen to this Zeppelin cover, and if you can't tell that he is better than Page and Hendrix at their best you don't have ears for music. I saw Both Lead Zep and Hendrix several times and Bonamassa live is another level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpIsv7XHLE
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  1935. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  1936. It's not an either, or, situation. Socialism relies on capitalism for economic viability. Think of capitalism as the bacteria that was incorporated into the cell as the mitochondria. Tell me this: if there are a thousand issues of a companies stock, and there are a thousand workers all of whom own one share of stock, is this company capitalist or socialist? Or perhaps a private company organized along socialist lines doesn't make sense to you. Personally I see socialism as a phase of human organization, in it's evolution toward a RetroConfucian TechnoMeritocracy. Wherein there will be periodic government upgrades, and all offices will be held by the candidate who scored best in tests and virtual scenarios designed by AI machine learning logarithms to discern the optimal person to hold that position in government. All positions would be open to anyone interested in undergoing psychological testing which would eliminate those with sociopath and psychopathic tendencies and determine by expertise and real-time virtual scenarios the best person for the position. The capitalist/socialist mix would be determined by the affluence and happiness quotients of the populace as a whole. In time these same AI developed methods and metrics could be used to develop means of production and businesses, and determine the management and other employees of same.
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  1937. Scientists? Why would anybody want to hear from a scientist? Didn't they start all that climate change nonsense? Humans had nothing to do with the recent 70 degree days in Antarctica. We want to hear from someone we can trust, like Donald Trump. After all he has only lied to the pubic 17,000 times since he took office. We love Donald, because he tells the brainwashed right wing-nuts what they want to hear, No matter how stupid it is. You have to admire his integrity.
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  1938. Count all you want: artillery doesn't kill people, projectiles kill people. It's the shells that count, unfortunately no way to count them.
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  1939.  @rogerstarkey5390  True, but right now there is no point in it since they are selling all the cars they can produce without dropping the price.
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  1940. Hardly. . . however if all cars were FSD AND networked together then it would be a thing of the past. And actually there would no longer be a need for traffic signals at all. Think about that when you are waiting for a green light at 2AM with no one else on the road.
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  1941. LA county did not stop the ICE because they were abusive. They stopped because hispanics were refusing to call the police or testify about crimes for fear of deportation.
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  1942. All the problems of the world could be greatly reduced if we just got rid of all the leaders.
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  1943. Did that guy say they have been here for millions of years? At 1:39 ? I think he did. This is the kind of nonsense that passes for truth. His ancestors were not even in the western hemisphere 50,000 years ago and homo sapiens didn't even exist a million years ago. But I guess that is just the narrative of the suppressor culture trying to keep the red man down. No dude, your "tribe" like the rest of us is an invasive species. I am sorry you are poor. I am poor also. There are no indigenous people anywhere on earth. But if you want to lie to yourself you better ignore the facts. Like the fact that as the Asians who invaded the America's moved south we saw one of the biggest mass extinctions of native species ever in the history of earth. Because the Asians killed them off as much as their technology allowed. They plundered the environment as much as they were capable of. Please give up the fantasy world of the peace loving peoples in harmony with nature. It is just nonsense. The Asian tribes that populated the Americas were in almost continuous wars with one another, and they rejoiced in torturing each other to death, some were cannibals, and some of them make the present government look like a god sent of sanity. Which it isn't.
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  1944. As I understand it: sodium will be good for large megapack type installations, not for cars because they do not have enough energy density.
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  1945. Ahhh the old police alternative tax system.
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  1946.  @brianoden1798  They were soup lines, not bread lines -- Einstein.
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  1947.  @buttertoast1146  You mean: learn punctuation -- kid.
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  1948.  @brianoden1798  That's not their ideology, that is the lie about their ideology that you are spreading either knowingly, or as I suspect, out of ignorance.
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  1949. @Verum Similis When the children are not the monsters that some of the grandparents were, they should be allowed to bloom forth without shame. They did nothing, let them learn from the mistakes of the foregone generation and put their positive talents to work for the good of all mankind.
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  1950.  @theone8189  The USA would never put nuclear weapons in Taiwan. That's a totally incorrect assumption on your part. But you seem generally delusional with Chinese official propaganda. You also seem to think that China was invited into Hong Kong and Tibet, instead of the military invasions and hostile police invasions that they really were. This is all just nonsense from your fearless leader in order to distract from the very real chance of total financial collapse in China and the ridiculous covid policies that stem from the same fearless leader's inability to humble himself by importing a vaccine that actually works from the west.
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  1951. I like the design of the Y better even though it is old.
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  1952.  @rouseflooring8256  Says the dreamer so fast asleep that they think they are awake.
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  1953.  @tobeyknolls6924  But from a purely aesthetic assessment, isn't it kind of beyond fiction that the man who has spread more disinformation than any other American leader in all of history (over 25k verified public lies during his term) has accused the news media of being fake. It would be genuinely hilarious if 70 million voters didn't buy into the big lie, and the 24,999 other lies that he told. That is the disaster of our current populace, most, no matter what their politics are incapable of discerning fact from fiction. They don't even know how to verify the legitimacy of studies and statistics. So sad that it is kind of funny. A real laugh or cry situation.
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  1954. Wow - a cool 166 thousand dollar car. I am so underwhelmed.
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  1955. I kinda think your are wrong. It seems that nothing is going to get the number of young people that would be necessary to actually act in their own best interests. Am i wrong. I would gladly be wrong about this. OK millennials put up or shut up
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  1956. Not with signals base in ones and zeros it can't.
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  1957. Though all authentic religions have their origin in an instance of expanded conscious awareness, no religion is about this experience even if it claims to be. In fact if it were not for those who attempted in one way or another to achieve such an enlightenment and failed, no body would have heard about the possibility at all. All communications about it are incorrect and cannot be otherwise. Regarding achieving such an exalted state, if you can think it: it cannot be correct. All your "spiritual" or metaphysical, heroes were failures: those that existed as more than metaphors that is. The possibility to ignite the dormant potential of awakening this totally physical epigenetic mode of enhanced awareness is not and can never be a subject. It is not something that can be approached or achieved by the thought-centric-associative-process that modern humans refer to as "me", or "i" and which is truly a totally automatic process that is the growing tip of the survival instinct. The reality of this is so far from what the "experts" or anyone has to say about it, that if one were actually seriously pursuing such an experience they would do best to just totally ignore what anyone including themselves and myself had to say about it. They would realize that the relationship that such conferences as this had to do with it, is about the same relationship as that which Fox news has to real events. It is entertainment and nothing more, for those who are satisfied with thoughts and dreams that originate with those who are indulging in hearsay, or at best, having had a taste of such a state, are so baffled by it that they can only resort to religious, or memes about "consiousness" when they are no longer in it. Enlightenment is not a concept. Nothing real or accurate can be said about it. It cannot be studied a little at a time like math or religion. Nothing leads to it and no one can lead you there. It is not an intellectual conclusion, idea, or belief. It is as physical as a heart attack, and nearly as devastating, if you find extreme astonishment devastating. It has nothing to do, not even tangentially, with anything that you or anyone else has ever thought about it.
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  1958. The elephant in the room is the pric3e of the cybertuck. No way it is going for anywhere near 50k.
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  1959. You arrogant lying bastards. This is a move to crush real democracy by the lying fuckheads at the DNC. Buttigieg is already a dirty dishonest prick. Learn what these enemies of US democracy really did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaKApE68DA
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  1960. As we use to say. . . "Tell it like it is Kyle!" Right on brother Kyle. Hows that for nostalgia?
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  1961.  @chrisahearn789  American forces have not been idle. They fight in Syria, and the dislocated areas of Iraq, soon if not now in Yemen and in several African countries as advisors. According to Smithsonian American forces are currently actively combating terrorism in over eighty countries -- about forty percent of the world. Not what I would call idle.
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  1962.  @MbisonBalrog  It made Bush happy.
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  1963.  @u2beuser714  I think you are responding to the wrong person. Because that is just about my point.
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  1964.  @u2beuser714  I did not say Iraq fighting Iran isn't an experience, try some reading comprehension Elroy . . . it's a small mind that cannot distinguish between different types of experience. I know you think you have some pointless point to make, but you are really just responding to your own hormones in an echo chamber. I leave you the last word in the meaningless exchange 'cause brother you need it, to dampen your own cognitive dissonance and all, but basically because you are boring me.
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  1965. Lars I don't even care that you pronounce your Vs like W. You are the most entertaining and fun Tesla show.
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  1966.  @mwolrich  NO they won't. Government will never mandate compulsory FSD, and networking all cars together and eliminating traffic control signals is just asking for headaches, while networking cars to traffic control signals will work and allow anyone to do what they want to: drive themselves or let a program do it. And if you really think about it, there is no advantage that this scheme has over networking traffic control signals and lots of disadvantages.
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  1967.  @mwolrich  Your misunderstanding of my preposal is epic. And I don't have the time or inclination to correct you. But your initial statement is ridiculous, if cars are networked together and the network controls traffic they will all have to be FSD, no way around it.
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  1968. Could be, maybe not the same people -- exactly. Could it be that the drug cartels and the judicial and enforcement segments are largely in bed with each other at least in so far as they both want to continue the illusions that enrich them?
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  1969.  @grahamstevenson1740  Who brought the stranded astronauts back to earth? Who made it possible for a paraplegic to use a computer with his mind? Who made EVs a worldwide thing? Who made rockets reusable? Who successfully launched the biggest rocket to ever leave earth? Who makes is possible for anyone anywhere to get high speed internet? Who has developed an energy company that has doubled it's sales of megapacks in the last year, managing little effects like freeing the island of Hawaii from the need to import hydrocarbons to take up the slack in their solar grid> If you think all this was inspired and brought to reality by a conman -- you have been conned, but not by Musk.
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  1970.  @4literv6  The Viking just bought one.
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  1971. Think about this: El Paso Texas and Juarez Mexico are the same city split by a boarder. Until recently El Paso was one of the safest US cities, and I think the shooter came from somewhere else, and it probably still is one of the safest. On the other side Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities on earth. Why? Decriminalize all drugs and establishing sanctuary areas where any drug can be legally purchased over the counter without a prescription at a drug store, will end the narco dominance of Mexico and Central America.
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  1972. What a nitwit: doesn't even know grade school history, or where slavery was first abolished,
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  1973. I could have played an mp3 of this for my aunt, when I take her out to eat this weekend, but you said "Fuck" so now it will have the opposite effect that it would have if you had been more thoughtful. Why do you insist on alienating the elderly who might otherwise be persuaded with moral and ethical arguments? Smarten the fuck up bro.
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  1974. ". . . for the very last time" -- quite an assumption on your part.
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  1975. Naive: Specialists are near sighted, even those whose field is cosmology. What is needed if humans actually need leaders, and that is a moot point, is a scientific generalist who is conversant with all the fields of human intellectual expansion and not hobbled by politicians in the thrall of their cash cows. Leaders should be chosen by testing and simulations and be imminently replaceable when someone betters their scores, not by popularity among the manipulating bastards that remain hidden from view like Mercer and company while their stooges like Trump distracts an imbecilic public. Addendum: Mercer is a perfect example why what you propose would be disastrous, a genius in his field that subscribes to a legion of crackpot theories and uses his influence to destroy America with Trump and the radical right wing fascists.
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  1976. There is no "in". Your message is stupid.
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  1977. I guess they were trying to define a bullseye with those circular tracks.
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  1978. vapor ware.
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  1979. From next door to hard coal PA -- Fuck coal, fuck mines and strip mining and fuck coal miners, and fuck the union busting pricks who don't give a fuck about anything but their bottom lines. Everything about coal sucks including the asshole miners. Close the whole shit eating business down. FYI: Gases can be used instead of coke as reduction agents in an alternative process called direct reduced iron, or DRI. This does away with the blast furnace and is already employed in some locations using natural gas.
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  1980. We are in an age were irony is no longer ironic. You can thank Trump and his cultists for that. Peterson is and always was an imbecile. His take on things is to real wisdom like pro wrestling is to MMA.
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  1981. From the hard coal region of PA which has the highest quality coal in the world. There is no such thing as clean coal. It poisons everything, the air, the water table, everything. The trucks on the road leave so much dirt on the road that every car that drives over it raises a black cloud. It has destroyed the environment in the entire valley of the mammoth vein which goes from Scranton almost to Harrisburg. No fish in the streams, black lung, forests that grow to thirty feet then die because their roots hit poison water. Everything gets destroyed except the owners bank accounts, who do not live in the coal region because they are not insane or poor. This man is incredibly ignorant load mouth who should be forced to live somewhere like Shenandoah PA. Asshole.
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  1982. To me battery swapping makes more sense than hydrogen and battery swapping makes no sense at all in the light of battery evolution. Why complicated everything unless future repair revenue is the object. I love the new Hyundai Prophecy most and the ionic based on it second. I like the styling more than a Tesla, but like the Tesla 3 and Plaid more overall. Would love to see a 3 plaid.
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  1983. Trump needs to trip more than any person I have ever come across. He would probably end up ego tripping though and get nothing from it.
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  1984. I was just thinking about that yesterday: how great it would be if all countries had FSD so a Tesla rental would take care of a lot of issues.
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  1985. Much to the contrary: China is totally dependent upon its proclaimed enemies for its prosperity.
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  1986. Like most Tesla FUD you have your facts wrong, or should I say lack of facts.
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  1987. Hell, I own BYD and I bet you do too.
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  1988. I don't know where the heck you live, but were I live there are help wanted signs in front of almost every commercial building some as high as $40 and hour but none of them is less than $15 an hour. So if that is your problem -- move.
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  1989. Did you ever watch street interviews with Russians about this entire situation? Not the students or the cynical pragmatists, but the true believers. Their as divorced from reality as the interviewees at Trump rallies on Comedy central. Funny how darn similar they seem. But even so, really, in general, the world over, it's the leaders that are the main problem. Or more accurately, the real manner in which the leaders actually come to power.
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  1990.  @FireTheHoker  I guess they were out of them by the time you got there. Megacastings, FSD, structural battery packs, etc.
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  1991. There is no end to the amount you guys suck.
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  1992. Is the universe just one thing? The universe is a concept. Therefore it is infinitely fungible.
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  1993.  @jimpsky  easily: The conception of the universe IS defined as containing galaxies. You think you are switching back and forth between the finger and the moon but you are really only dealing with fingers. That is, everything you can possibly write or think is only a concept that AT BEST, symbolizes something that exists: with some degree of fidelity. Also I would suggest that you look up the definition of fungible before you respond further.
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  1994.  @jimpsky  Both b and c are false. Presently most conceptions of the universe define it as containing galaxies. Therefore b is false. Your argument depends on you believing that your concept of galaxies is not a concept but the actual physical galaxy, so it cannot be contained in a concept. However you are naive. What you are referring to as galaxies is a concept. As I said, you are confusing the finger that points at the moon for the moon. You think that a finger cannot contain the moon, without realizing that the moon you speak of is just another finger.
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  1995.  @jimpsky  Yes any concept is necessarily a concept. . . . duh.  "The Universe is a concept therefore infinitely fungible." Remember that is the statement that you took exception to. Then you say. The universe contains galaxies. The words universe, contains, and galaxies are all concepts. Therefore your working conception of the universe as per this discussion is that the universe contains galaxies. Then you say that no concept contains galaxies, after just stating that your concept of the universe is one that contains galaxies. It is obviously you who is confusing the conceptual with that to which it can only allude with varying degrees of accuracy and detail. In fact your entire inane argument taken as a whole proves my original statement.
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  1996. Peter Ziehan -- . . . "The USA does not import recessions, it exports them."
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  1997. n Mexico there are competing cartels, in China there is only one. Competition is the American way. So is bombing. If Russia can invade Ukraine and it be a matter of debate in Trump's mind, why can't USA invade northern Mexico to secure a buffer zone to stop the cartels and the immigrant invasion? That would be a classic Trump tactic to divert the attention from the ruin he will make of the economy and government. /
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  1998. Love Chris, a real Christian in an age of fascists pretending to be. Like to see Chris in discussion with Noam about the election.
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  1999. So far, 14 people in The Philippines who were fully vaccinated with the Chinese vaccine, have died from Covid.
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  2000. Frum looks like an alcoholic.
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  2001. Unless you count the most American car, which is the Tesla, which is also the best affordable car in the world.
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  2002. Next there will be a national tragedy, which Trump (Robert Mercer's front man) will use to crush opposition. Same old tricks, time after time, and the fools never catch on, because they are antiintellectual and only the intellectuals can figure out the con. The conman and his dupes in the service of the one percent, who would love a faschist state were the military, the defense industry, other major industries, are merged under a tyrant who appeals to the dupes who are sick of things changing in a way they don't like or understand.
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  2003. No here is the point: CNN along with all the other co-opted corporate news outlets have been completely unfair, biased, and hostile in their coverage of Bernie, and have repeatedly lied about his real position with voters. Bernie is the most popular politician not just in the Senate, not just in Congress, not just in the USA, but in the world. If you do not know this you do not deserve to call yourself news. I suggest the alternate moniker of "Millionaires and wanna-be millionaire spokes-models for the one percent, and shameless purveyors of a contrived false narrative and warped paradigm, to manipulate the public by continuously manufacturing and presenting lies as public consent. Scumbags like all the corporate news outlets in the service of their oligarch owners and masters. That may be a bit of a mouthful so maybe just Lying enemies of the real public. The public who, by the way, support Bernie to a degree unseen since FDR. Time to get rid of the orange beast and his butt sniffers.
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  2004. yep
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  2005.  @judewarner1536  Totally correct. I blame my spell checker.
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  2006.  @judewarner1536  Totally correct. I blame my spell checker.
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  2007. That is incorrect. Tesla will not use an Iron phosphate chemistry in 4680. Elon said this months ago, but people keep making up their own scenario. It will not happen. You will not be able to charge 4680 from 0 to 100 pct without degrading your pack.
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  2008. Really -- get real. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mmieZYF__c
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  2009. Just like the old money in New York did when the opium trade to China that established their family fortunes was shut down.
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  2010. You would think that the families of those vets that lost their lives and those that became maimed would be at the government's gates with pitchforks, but instead they will attack you if you even question the reason they were used and abused by these out of touch rich power elite bastards who don't give a fuck about them. They do not give a fuck about you and your loss or the fact that your loss is due to their lies and it has nothing to do with patriotism. If they were real patriots they would be fighting to get the scum out of Congress, but they vote the same bastards in over and over. There is no hope because there is no way to deal with the general stupidity inculcated into the populace by the corporate news media.
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  2011. Bernie $ VS Bloomburg $ Apologies to those who took arithmetic in elementary school. I know you already know this -- even so you may not be able to envision the difference in these fortunes and this explanation may help. Bernie has a stack of two million one dollar bills that he wants to give to Judy. Bernie is old and can only give her one dollar each second. If Bernie is wearing a catheter and doesn't need to go to the bathroom and can hand Judy dollar bills 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: how long will it take Bernie to give Judy his two million dollars? answer: There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hours and 24 hours in a day: Therefore Bernie can hand Judy 86,400 dollar bills every day. So he can give her $86,000 per day. So it would take Bernie just about 23 days and three and a half hours to give Judy two million dollars. (since $86,400 goes into $2,000,000 a little over 23.15 times) In twenty three days Bernie could hand Judy his two million dollars, one dollar at a time, if he can stay awake, and he can, cause he is a vastly woke dude. How long would it take little Mike to hand Judy his 60,2 billion dollars one dollar at a time? Mike is also old and wearing a catheter, is being fed intravenously and attended by his personal medical staff. Through the wonders of modern pharmacology and a neural implant he purchased, Mike can also stay awake. But due to age Mike can also only hand Judy one dollar bill per second. So Mike, like Bernie can give Judy $86,400 per day. There are 6,759.26 ($86,400) in 60.2 billion dollars so it would take Mike six hundred and ninety six thousand seven hundred and fifty nine days to hand Judy his 60.2 billion dollars. That's 696,759.26 days. That many days equals one thousand nine hundred and eight years and a few days short of eight months. So it would take Mike 1908.93 years to hand Judy all his money (that we know of). Bernie would be broke in 23 days. Mike would be broke in 1,909 years. Who is the oligarch? Addendum: Please note that since Mike is a capitalist who profits, not from his labor or producing goods but by investment, his wealth will actually be increasing by more than $86,400 per day because of profits on his fortune. So in reality, no matter how many thousands of years he spends handing Judy his money, he would never be able to do it and would always have more to hand her each day than he did the day before. Addendum PS: Old Jewish wisdom: "Every time somebody makes something for nothing, somebody else makes nothing for something." In Bloomburg's and the other billionares cases this "somebody else" is you and everyone else. If you don't understand this you are truly blind and will never understand why wealth is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and you are being robbed in ways you neither understand nor can do anything about without a fundamental paradigm shift in our laws, government, and cultural world-view.
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  2012.  @lesmotley6839  Put up or shut up. Where's the hyperlink?
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  2013. Good choice. S2000 is good but new Miata is even more fun. 2019 is the one to get though. I bet that one beats the stats of the s2000
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  2014.  @jurycould4275  It didn't
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  2015. For every second a police body cam is turned off they should be docked a days pay. This will make up for the shortfall due to not arresting innocent people and lying in court.
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  2016. MAGA much?
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  2017. Never did trust that Mickey Mouse looking conman. Want to keep things as stupid as they are, don't include Tesla. Tesla is only the number one selling EV. Tesla is only the most American car in production, that is sold in America. Tesla only makes an EV that is a half dozen years ahead of the closest competitor. Tesla is only the company with the only viable charging network. Tesla is only the most ethical company in the entire auto world. Tesla only has, not only the number one selling EV but what will be without a doubt the number one selling car in the world. Tesla is only the actual reason that any other auto company is now going electric. Tesla is so far beyond this ignoramus's concept of what the future will look like, that he doesn't deserve to be in the same reality, let alone sit at the table with Tesla. Tesla is only the car company with the highest degree of owner satisfaction. Tesla only offers a car that is faster than any other production auto no matter the price, and can still can carry four adults and their golf clubs and full overnight gear while doing it. The media and the companies that would have rather had you die in a wreck because it was cheaper, until Nader forced them to adopt seat belts and collapsing steering columns, have been looking for a way to overcome Tesla, because it is so obviously superior in product and production than the dinosaur auto companies -- and it doesn't pay the crime family-like crooked media the advertising vig that the other car companies depend on to sell you dreams. Dreams that will not even approach the reality that is living right now in Tesla products and production methods. Buttegieg, with McCluen like rear-view mirror vision, leads us onward into the fog. And it's not even his rear-view mirror that he is looking through. It's the one lent to him by the dino-auto industry. The one that says "LIMITED VISION: objects are more crudely engineered than they appear in the ads". No unions at Tesla, Musk wants the employees to own Tesla. That's how it should be done. You micky-mouse-looking clown.
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  2018. Having a bunch of psychopaths, scoundrels and media fools in charge of things doesn't help.
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  2019. Not Marine Corpse: Marine Coor! You are saying the marines aee a dead person.
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  2020. Just started watching: but dude if you disregard unusable doomsday weapons, Russia is not even close to the second strongest military in the world. The state of California alone would take Russia behind the woodshed and spank it until it cried for its mama. The Chinese, British, French, Swedes, Poles, Norwegians, Germans, and others could kick Russia's butt down the road like there's no tomorrow. There is a huge difference between having junkyards full of rusting old equipment, with an army that fights like a drunken whore, and being able to take it to a modern adversary with much better equipment, logistics, training and intelligence.
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  2021. Referring to Taiwan as "China's turncoat province" is just stupid. I know you know better so it's not ignorance, it's stupidity.
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  2022. What's it called when you trumpet the association of qualities to a phenomenon that it does not actually hold? Oh yeah -- propaganda. A person could be heartily in favor of democracy and totally against unions. The one thing does not in anyway necessarily entail the other. The ultimate melange of democracy with private business is the employee owned company. The unionization of an employee owned company is redundant. Sort of like an urban cowboy who is all hat and no cattle, you are all slogan and no fact. It is in fact very easy to be pro democracy and anti union, all you have to do is a little research into some of the absurdly wasteful programs that unions have spawned, not to mention the corruption of past union officials and association with organized crime.
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  2023. I have heard that of all the populations in the world the Vietnamese hold the Americas in higher regard than the population of any other country does. That is interesting.
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  2024. This is what Trump "figured out": how to get his audience to experience contact rushes from his amphetamine use. Ask anybody who is old enough to have experienced the diet pill craze in the sixties what drug this buffoon is on. Doesn't matter what he says -- the cult is tuned into his body rushes tingling up his spine.
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  2025.  @cdlp5  "Awe full" and awful do not mean the same thing.
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  2026.  @vebcloud8903  Veb says, "My mind is in the Dark Ages and yours should be too, because I do not understand your science."
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  2027. Every time that the ability to buy a gun is threatened, thousands of people who would never have ever purchased a gun buy one. Are we going to give the gun dealers windfall after windfall with this vacillation?
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  2028.  @kx7500  Thanks for straighten' that out for us: genius.
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  2029. Comment part 1 Sheltered as I am, and as much a fool as I allow myself to be on a daily basis: I will now proceed my pouring from the empty into the void by giving a brief outline of how an optimal human government should be arranged. In fact, one objective look at the so-called political systems, and their underpinning, that populate our planet should inform the observer that what is happening is just window dressing on barbarism, it's just a theater of the mind, a velvet glove on an iron fist. I don't know of any system of government or rule that rises above the idiotic, or so it would seem, if the object of the system is to optimize, as much as is possible, all honorable aspects of human existence, and to curtail those commonly deemed as undesirable, the present systems of governance found on earth are archaic trash: just an excuse for the same old kleptocratic autocompulsive psychopaths, to further inflate their already vein-glorious mini-minds in the vacuous reflections of the sycophants that surround and enable their insanity because of their own highly deviated and corrupted survival impulse. They wish they were a real boy, but despite the world of suffering they create by trying to fill their truly vacuous lives with babbles of all types, real life eludes them, and always will. Even ole' Socrates knew that a person that seeks power should never be trusted with it. Human political culture is a joke. An eighth grade class could come up with a better system than the battered whore the banksters and one percent -- have afforded the world. It's a joke, a sin, and a wasted opportunity to evolve our culture into one that would nurture the greatness that humanity could be. But we ain't great, and we never have been, though for sure, an individual here and there, now and then has been -- great that is. Though to tell you the truth Alexander wasn't, and neither was his teacher Aristotle. Two utter failures that the world has adored for over two millennia. So wad ya gonna due -- aye? Real democracy is something usually only found in a direct democracy. Representational Democracy, Republics, Constitutional Republic, etc, are a device used to lead the capite censi to believe that they live in a participatory democracy while allowing the plutocrats to stay in control of the things that matter to them. A few prefectures in Switzerland have a direct democracy, or if you allow, a REAL democracy, but as far as I am aware, they are the only such democracy in the world today and in all of history. Personally I would prefer a sort of democratic neoconfusian techno-meritocracy, wherein people would not vote for candidates, but for the tests and various VR simulated scenarios submitted for consideration by experts in testing of psychological fitness and problem solving abilities that would be appropriate for the office being sought. Tests that would be open to all citizens at all times in order to challenge those who held various government offices, and replace them if they scored higher than the current occupant.
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  2030. Euope sure seems to be consuming a lot of Teslas. Number one luxury car in GERMANY.
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  2031.  @donnykiles9522  Typical nincompoop drivel.
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  2032.  @tedmoss  Don't forget North Korea. North Korean evs qualify for the tax break, Tesla doesn't and is still killing it with those who appreciate a car a generation ahead of everyone else.
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  2033. Before Facebook, before fake news, before incredible credibility gap, Google asked the general public for ideas that it should fund research into. I suggested a neutral nonprofit agency that would give every internet address that is a venue for information of any type a rating, for factualness of the information they are presenting and hoping to disseminate. . . . Crickets, in fact the crickets were so deafening that they still can't be heard. I can just hear the objections in the form of projections of rationalized complications because of this or that trivial factor. It would have made a difference. Now I am going to present myself, for the moment, as an irrelevant and fictitious personae who views themselves as knowing much more than the established recognized official experts in all matters having exclusively human, causal dynamics, because I do know more than them, so indulge my pronouncements as, though seemingly out of touch with official narratives, not only are they effective, but inescapable, unless you want your escape to be into a realm that is more like what you are presently attempting to escape than it is itself. But then why change something that hasn't worked in such a fine fashion up till now?' That dear reader is up to you. This is my one indulgence: playing Cassandra. Only this particular Cassandra is not only disinterested, but is exceedingly irrelevant, with nary a dog in the fight. I do not know if democracy is a desirable form of government. I do not know if it is a possible from of government. I do not even know with good faith that it has even ever existed as a form of government for a so called sovereign nation in all of history. One two three: but I do know this: . . . In order for democracy to transcend the status of a mere amalgamation of partisan viewpoints: in order for democracy to invoke the very physical epigenetic human potential of a large group to transcend the perception and conception of an individual in the consideration of questions they find relevant enough to hold up to democratic process, this process, cannot take place in a media of lies, rationalizations, guesses, opinion, and all manner of manipulation and disinformation. All you will get in such cases is confusion. Like you have. I refer you to the example of the jelly bean urn, like you find at a stare fair, or charity event. A huge glass urn, filled with so many jelly beans that you can only take your best guess. If the n is large enough, that is, if enough yokels buy a chance and take a guess, the tendency will always be for the average of all guesses to be more accurate than the most accurate individual guess. So to take the average answer would usually be taking the most accurate estimate. This is analogous to the manner in which the epigenetic democratic genius of large human groups can be utilized to succeed where even the best and brightest fail. With this one huge caveat: this cannot take place in a culture of lies, manipulation, propaganda, disinformation, etc. That would be the equivalent of having a hidden softball in the middle of the urn. You would still get a good answer, but not to the question you asked. You can let the superficial idea of democracy destroy the real significance of democracy by protecting every crackpot who wants to spout some idiotic psychotic nonsense or you can value the higher potential of democracy enough to establish iron clad contingencies for anyone presenting any information to the public. Which would necessary include fines and penalties for those individuals and organizations presenting fictions and delusional nonsense as facts. These penalties should include total confiscation of all property worldwide and banishment from the USA. That's what it takes for democracy to function at it's highest potential. Personally I prefer RetrConfucianTechnoMeritocracy sans tyrant and police state. But I can see that you prefer what is automatic. . . . Entropy, . . . go eat you big mac pink boy, drink that coke: swill that liquid barbiturate, you deserve it.
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  2034. This report makes no sense. Why get people out if the shooter is dead? Why get a critically wounded person out if the building is a hospital?
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  2035. If one person who wouldn't get the vaccine, does get it, and because of that their family does not have to struggle without a mom or dad, all the insults are worth it snowflake.
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  2036. Dealing with the USSR the USA was dealing with a failed economic system that could not support arms competition in the cold war. Dealing with China, the USA is dealing with an economic powerhouse that can support such competition.
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  2037. stevia: Sloan Kettering: Laboratory studies indicate weak mutagenic activity with large doses
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  2038.  @MrTohawk  Makes all kinds of sense I am sure. What about Norway? Hard to believe there is more corruption their than in Germany. I mean aren't German and British banks always dealing in the dirt, washing money for drug cartels and Russian mafia, I mean oligarchs?
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  2039. So basically she fell asleep.
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  2040. Crypto is one of the stupidest things ever invented. Well not the cryptocurrency per se, but the need to use all that energy instead of some other form of mining that did not waste energy and pollute the atmosphere with tons of greenhouse gas. How absolutely moronic. And the purveyors of this totally fictitious mining activity are considered cutting-edge awareness-wise. It's like living on the "special" planet. With the current system, all the real value, the value of the chips, and physical mining operation, and electricity is all destroyed up front, except for what can be salvaged by a sell-off of used equipment, and then a fictitious value is assigned to it, which is determined totally by the dynamics of a ponzi scheme. People are so far into the narrative that they can't see the trees for the bark. It's a business that, in reality, produces nothing, but consumes huge resources accomplishing this nothing.
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  2041. And the present undemocratic electoral college and gerrymandered voting insures that the votes in the areas with the most intelligent populations do not count at all, while those of a few drunk out of work rust belt morons determine the elections. Fuck these bastards and the horse they rode in on. The horse they rode in on -- that would be the present campaign finance system, if you hadn't notice the systematized corruption that we now call government has evolved from a plutocracy to a kleptocracy. We never were a democracy. The only democracy in the present world is Switzerland and in history there were absolutely none that I know of.
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  2042. What is the reality? The reality is that Bernie is not only the most popular senator, not only the most popular politician in Congress, not only the most popular politician in the Country he is the most popular politician in the world -- because thinking and compassionate people the world over are praying that the USA will come out of this movement into unconsciousness and the promotion of a policies based on primitive emotions and knee-jerk reactions will come to an end. They know they need us, and they need us sane and humane if civilization is going to have any chance of surviving the psychopaths that have gotten themselves into positions of power via charisma and cunning. This is not a game. If the right-wing nuts like Mercer, and his flunkies, like Trump, maintain the reigns of power: your are getting a deal on a squirt gun while your house is in a fire storm of lies and disinformation, on subjects that will determine the lives of your children and perhaps yourself. End this insanity. Pick the right man for a change, not the richest, the best connected or the one that lies best, choose who you actually think is the best. . . not the lesser of two evils. The lesser of two evils is the choice that Goldman Sachs and the other banksters will give you.  This is your one chance in your lifetime to vote for a real person who is not a cats paw for elements of corruption. It's not a sexy subject but it you pay attention, Bernie knows how important it is to get money out of elections. How important is it? It is the most important issue. It is the basis of the legalized bribery that insures that your elected official are there: not to represent the voice of the people, no, rather they are there to make sure that the voice of the people never gets a hearing, and if by some chance on some issue it does get a hearing they will make sure it is never acted upon. Don't be fearful and full of hate, humanity has a golden destiny that has been stolen from the many by the few. It is time to wake up and clarify our nation's values once more. Not in meaningless word or deceitful narratives designed to seduce by playing to fears and greed. We cannot move into the new age using a rear-view mirror for a guidance system. Don't be afraid, Bernie's views and positions are not more radical than the Scandinavian views and practices and even the vaunted quality of upward social mobility is higher in all of them then it is here. Not to mention personal happiness and financial security and safety. Don't let the people who own the media make you paranoid. They have a greedy reason for misrepresenting the fact as did Boomburg tonight with is talk of communism and such. It's just ridiculous that he could stand there and insult the public's intelligence so blatantly. Fear not, feel the Bern.
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  2043. It is so obvious that many democrats would rather have Trump for a second term than give up their odious streams of income from the big boys in finance and hi-tech. Democracy Now -- how about the democracy that was denied by the DNC to Bernie? Just keep tying the progressives to open boarder policies (a fantasy) and you will have four more years of Trump. So far you are doing a great job.
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  2044. Get ready for the dead-enders to get their alternative reality tweets from THE REAL AMERICAN GOV IN EXILE® from Mar-a-Lago.
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  2045. Please see the massive TSMC foundries built in AZ, 4% more efficient than the ones in Tiawan.
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  2046.  @joshuasnyder4794  The Chinese are not capable of manufacturing the high end chips that are made in Taiwan and Arizona. Maybe you don't care, but anyone with any geopolitical savvy does. These chips are the main advantage that the west has over China and Russia, both in the development and deployment of AI, and modern weapons systems. Just around the corner is a world where AI will have advanced to the point of making poly-functional humanoid robots a reality of daily life and mass manufacturing. This will fix your "consumer problem".
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  2047. @joshuasnyder4794 The Chinese are not capable of manufacturing the high end chips that are made in Taiwan and Arizona. Maybe you don't care, but anyone with any geopolitical savvy does. These chips are the main advantage that the west has over China and Russia, both in the development and deployment of AI, and modern weapons systems. Just around the corner is a world where AI will have advanced to the point of making poly-functional humanoid robots a reality of daily life and mass manufacturing. This will fix your "consumer problem".
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  2048. Bernie will crush the conman.
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  2049.  @TheUnholyPosole  Because they dealt with it in a effective manner at the outset unlike the abysmal Trump administration.
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  2050.  @paulkher  Nonsense: there was no uniform response in the USA. Each state and area did their own thing and played musical chairs with the pandemic.
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  2051. For the sake of the one in a hundred thousand persons who can properly understand this, because they may come upon this, and are dear to me, here is the seed: Total objectivity, in the moment, of one's own subjective process IS cosmic "consciousness". No DMT or exogenous poisonous approximation molecules necessary (only a distortion anyway). For that one in a hundred thousand, you can do this, if you really want to, and you really want to, if your were born that way, and somehow stayed vital despite the automatic thought-centric associative function you call your mind. It doesn't get any more direct in words than this: though all words regarding this are incorrect and misleading. Including these. But they are the most accurate you will ever find. This is not a concept it is an action, woefully described in terms of it's own antithesis. The proof is in the doing.
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  2052. This is infinitely cooler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azLFNDAICu8
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  2053. The Rivian is not the first production electric truck. The first real real electric truck was sold by Autocar in 1923. The best electric truck will be introduced in 2023 a hundred years later, by Tesla. Nothing else comes close.
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  2054.  @daniellarson3068  How can you not be aware that this problem has been totally overcome? Big oil media propaganda is my bet.
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  2055. Combat sports is high level problem solving like engineering a fusion reactor. Or maybe it's more like something stupid that causes hormonal reactions in viewers.
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  2056. Dream on.
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  2057.  @lllKRENDELLLlll  "objective view" lol, get real. As long as a 57 never meets a 22 you can maintain the fantasy.
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  2058. Yep, that's the first think I posted when the invasion was a few weeks old -- "This is an opportunity to deconstruct Russia without resorting to nuclear arms."
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  2059.  @machoopichoo2  You got that right. Just another "keep em in doubt" ala tobacco industry "research".
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  2060. You are partly correct. It is not a war over resources, but it is also not a totally irrational war on Russia's part -- because paranoia can be quite rational, or at least easily rationalized by the paranoiac. Russia is attempting to gain control of the routes that have been traditionally used to invade it. The fact that no one was threatening to or even wanting to invade it doesn't matter, this is where the irrational paranoia comes in, or the quite rational manufacture of a crisis to perpetuate the rule of the biggest thief in all of history, the real wealthiest man in the world, Putin.
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  2061.  @ronaldfreites1487  This is manufactured paranoia to take advantage of a fake crisis so the biggest thief in all of history and the richest man in the world can perpetuated his reign of insanity. No one was threatening Russia, and no one wants to invade or nuke Russia. Russia will just die of it's own stupid nature if it doesn't have an enemy to destroy and rally the imperialistic alcoholics that dream of a past that never existed.
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  2062.  @Iambrendanjames  Yeah a philosopher king would be nice too. Problem is, no one who deserves total authority would be wanting it, let alone striving to gain it. Even the ancient Greeks knew that the last person on earth that should be given power over others is someone who desires it. On the other hand, the big problem with democracy, other than the fact that it doesn't actually exist anywhere, is that it cannot function in anything approaching it's apex, in a culture of lies, partisanship spin and masses of imbeciles that consider meta-analysis of clinical trials fake news, but mimes made up by stoners living in their mom's basement like Q, to be the real hidden truth. As Gurdjieff once said, "Even God has no defense against stupidity." And like some other bully once said "Democracy is the worst possible system, except for all the others." Personally I back the NeoCofucian TechnoMeritocracy movement that will develop out of necessity when there is an independent colony on Mars, waiting to reestablish human culture on Earth after it recovers from the next extinction level event, or the inevitable results of so many fools banging off the walls of their unrecognized insanity. Cheers. . . . Oh, and perhaps you can answer this: why are there so many damn people named Brendan all of a sudden, and why has everyone forgotten that the proper word to use to describe the dynamics like those involved in the Russian aggression in Ukraine is "relentless" not "unrelenting"? You will definitely get a gold star on the forehead if you can answer both.
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  2063. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  2064. Come on. . . the only true and ultimate poetic justice, would be for Bidden to order seal team six to take out the justices because they present a clear and present danger to the Republic. And not be able to be charged with anything.
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  2065.  @jamied8678  Yep, cheap Halloween masks are the problem.
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  2066. Once the data is out, insurance companies will be giving discounts if you use FSD most of the time. What Tesla needs is gov. protection from predatory law suits. This could be with a pool from which funds are drawn or straight legislation limiting the types of lawsuits that can be applied to FSD. Of course any of these changes will only happen when the ratio of crashes caused by human error vs Tesla FSD is understood by regulators and politicians, because the public in their ignorance would rather see a hundred people die from human error than one from machine error.
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  2067. The USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narratives that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues. You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  2068. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  2069. What do you mean by "wasn't allowed"? Do you mean that YouTube would not let you copy and past a link to the video? If so, make a post then edit your link in after you post it.
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  2070.  @patrickleigh1523  That may well be the case if you can sit in your armchair with your feet up and watch from afar, but I dare say that if you were actually involved and things got "too interesting" you would be longing for a little serenity, as your door was being kicked in.
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  2071. Basically things will only change in scale as Russia's power waxes and wans. The only real change will come when the cancer at the very heart of the Russian state is cut out and destroyed entirely. This may necessitate a real dissolution of the confederation of their various state regions: thus depriving white Russia of most of its exportable resources outside of agriculture.
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  2072. Heated seat, AC seats, A/C, electric windows, etc. etc. All bull, give me a totally analogue roadster with a stiff suspension and a manual transmission anytime. But then I love to drive, and I don't live in a place with traffic jams or crummy roads. I live in a place where the winding mountain roads are like a billion dollar amusement ride if you have the right ride. I guess I don't have much chance of Tesla releasing a stripped down roadster with a decent price and no AC or electric windows or any of that other pussy totally unnecessary rot, but I do have the hope that some time in the future Tesla will be able to drastically cut the weight on it's performance models. Until that happens and they have something that can handle like a sports car and not cost a fortune I will stick with waiting for my cybertruck. Then I will get rid of my SUV and just keep the old pre electric steering Miatas, and S2000. That will cover all the bases nicely.
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  2073. Rogan is not a right winger. Do your research.
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  2074. Mescaline (peyote) is way better than any other psychedelic.
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  2075. These people are just ignorant. They think that Musk owns Tesla. He only owns 13% of Tesla. Most of it is owned by small retail investors that support the best EVs in the world and cleaner air. Tesla could go broke and Musk would still be the the richest guy in the world. His stake in spacex is more than his stake in Tesla.
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  2076.  @tedmoss  Oh, it's gonna happen.
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  2077.  @jonncockrell3606  You childish comment indicates that you are firmly in the kool-aid demographic.
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  2078. German bridge coverage in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MajtcfaAaZk&list=TLPQMDcxMDIwMjJUdDHrif2BTw&index=21
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  2079.  @godzillamothra5983  And like history says, Ukraine and Russia were never cousins. The most massive genocide in all of history was carried out by the Russian Soviets against Ukraine. Some cousins. Like having a paranoid psychopathic criminal for a cousin.
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  2080. Yet the sales and production of Tela EVs IN CHINA, has steadily increased except for the times when they are adding production modifications to their factories. Tesla is a luxury car in China, how is it possible for them to make and sell more Teslas IN CHINA year in and year out if what you say is imminent?
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  2081.  @YourHineyness  True, maybe not dirt poor, but at least dust bunny poor. However it is not only the "million millionaires" that are buying Teslas. It's kind of weird: China is the most competitive EV market by far, and many of the Chinese EV marques have partial and even total government ownership, so they can really go on losing money of their vehicles indefinitely, And really there are only two EV OEMs that do not lose money on each sale: BYD and Tesla, and BYD is sort of suspect in this claim. Tesla is the only car manufacturer in China that is not at least partially owned by the Chinese gov, but is totally investor owned, yet it's model Y is the best selling EV in China, and the only EV that is making money for the manufacturer. This is a company the is dragging the world (sometimes kicking and screaming like in Germany) into the future.
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  2082. Sure that's why the preppers prepare for one big love fest when the government collapses. That's why they need all those ARs and ammo and body armor -- too much love.
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  2083. Something that has not been talked about at all by any media is Putin's personal gain when the US military Industrial Complex prospers. Allow me to break it down for you. The worlds riches man is not Elon Musk it is Vlad Putin. Musk has himself claimed this. Legally Putin's wealth is owned and managed by insiders close to him whom he holds the power of life and death over. These persons have distributed Putin's assets (which he stole from the Russian people via insider deals) in various dummy corporations and other covert devices such as those set up for them by German lawyers in Panama. Not all of it is in super yachts, mansions, and properties such as those surreptitiously purchased by Russian mobsters from Trump. The far larger portion of it ends up invested in the stock market, and in US corporations in particular. Amongst these are significant investment in the very defense industry players who manufacture the weaponry that is being provided via various means to Ukraine. So the short of it is: When Putin invaded Ukraine he profited by its stimulus effect on his strawman held stock portfolio. The US defense industry has made substantial gains because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and thus so has Putin's obscurated personal wealth. Perhaps at least someone in mass media should make this connection and inform the Russian people of the shenanigans of their fearless leader (which is right up there with the anti-American activities of Trump and his mindless minions).
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  2084. If you think that anyone other than the banksters determine what is really going on in any matter that is economically or politically significant you are a fool.
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  2085. Consciousness is not a problem where I come from. In fact it's not even a thing: unless you are using the original archaic Frisian meaning of the word. And even then "conscious awareness" would be far more accurate, since there is about as much consciousness as there is runningness (in a runner who is standing still). Or as Carlos Dwa said in The Unwritten Book: Xellex . . . "The inherent deception in all conceptions of consciousness can be traced to the suffix "ness". This is sometimes referred to as the "ness" lock monster." . . . . . .
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  2086.  @WelfareChrist  😄
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  2087. There are two types of people who like Trump. The wealthy who he gave great tax breaks to, even as the debt became beyond massive, and the idiots who can't tell a NYC conman from their long lost daddy.
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  2088. I always got along great with women from NYC, and you reminded me of that part of my life. 'Cause this whole energy thing is all about me. Don't you agree? Repent for the Era of Abundance is at hand.
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  2089. If people were murdered during the insurrection, why isn't everyone who entered the capital being arrested for accessory to murder? Huh? You know it would be the case if it was progressives who killed a policeman.
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  2090.  @GeraldJimerson-me3lo  Regional Stability: A stable and secure Ukraine contributes to regional stability in Eastern Europe. A peaceful and stable neighborhood is in the best interest of the United States as it reduces the risk of conflict spillover and potential threats to U.S. allies in the region. Promotion of Democratic Values: Ukraine has been striving to strengthen its democratic institutions. U.S. support for Ukraine's democratic development aligns with American values and promotes the spread of democracy, rule of law, and good governance. Humanitarian Concerns: U.S. support for Ukraine helps address humanitarian concerns arising from conflicts. This includes assistance for internally displaced persons and refugees who may face displacement due to regional instability. Deterrence of Aggression: Supporting Ukraine sends a message to Russia and other potential aggressors that the United States stands firmly against the violation of international norms and territorial integrity. This deterrence effect can contribute to a more stable global security environment. Protection of Sovereignty: Upholding Ukraine's sovereignty reinforces the principle of territorial integrity, which is a cornerstone of international law. By supporting Ukraine's right to determine its own future, the U.S. strengthens the global norm against the unlawful annexation of territories. Energy Security: Ukraine is strategically located in terms of energy transit routes, particularly for natural gas. Ensuring a stable Ukraine can contribute to energy security in the region and reduce Europe's dependence on Russian energy sources, which has broader implications for global energy dynamics. Strategic Alliances: Supporting Ukraine strengthens U.S. partnerships with European allies who share common values and interests. It fosters a sense of solidarity within the transatlantic community, reinforcing the importance of collective security and cooperation. Counterterrorism Cooperation: A stable Ukraine is better equipped to address security challenges, including potential terrorism threats. Cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine in counterterrorism efforts can contribute to global security. Market Opportunities: As Ukraine develops economically, it can become a market for U.S. goods and services. Trade and economic ties with a stable and prosperous Ukraine can benefit American businesses and contribute to economic growth. Global Reputation: U.S. support for Ukraine enhances its reputation as a defender of international norms and a champion of sovereignty. This can positively influence the perception of the United States on the global stage. In summary, supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression aligns with U.S. interests in regional stability, the promotion of democratic values, deterrence of aggression, and the protection of global norms. It also fosters strategic alliances, enhances energy security, and opens up economic opportunities for the United States.
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  2091. Trump's tweets have now been renamed quacks. Donald Lame Duck, quack, quack quack -- ad nauseam.
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  2092. Exactly, and smuggling people across the border. On the hierarchy of harm, amphetamines, including cocaine are at the top.
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  2093.  Pup Pup Man  Oh boy, the disinformation starts again. The Soros boggy man of the brain washed right. Tell me where was all the anti Soros rhetoric when he was supporting the fall of communism in Poland or spending his own money to provide drinking water to Sarajevo when it was under seige? People who talk about Soros being the man behind the curtain or about Bernie owning three houses are imbeciles. The real man behind the curtain is Robert Mercer, without his money and org. Trump would have never been elected. Mercer would rather see the USA destroy itself than pay the billions he owes i taxes. If the purpose of your comment was to provide proof that you are a co-opted imbecile -- you have succeeded.
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  2094. Nomiki Konst says that Bernie cannot be cheated with super delegates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACn94wTAZJ4
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  2095.  @mandalortemaan7510  What about the people who use "what about" isms instead of addressing the issue? "What about" is used by people to defend the undefensible. All supremacits are just expressing a native egoism that arises automatically out of the survival instinct. Therefore they all have a long way to evolve in order to be taken seriously by anyone with any intelligence at all.
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  2096.  @mandalortemaan7510  Yeah, my use of what aboutism was a joke too. Jokes, espcially scarcasm don't do too well in text. I have the same problem online all the time. Glad you bothered to inform me. I will have to try to be more perceptive in the future. Lots of people bitch about political social media, but I have to give it credit. I mean, in ordinary life, people are not going to come right out and demonstrate how their phlosophy of life is base on delusions derived from other delusional, or intentionally deceptive narratives. It is intersting to see masses of people pursing their own confromtion bias into the hellish depths that make it seem righteous to call for a civil war.
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  2097. So the question is: can a Turkish drone carry a CBU-105? Will the USA give some of its stockpiled sensor fuzed cluster munitions to Ukraine?
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  2098. What this clown doesn't realize is that Tesla fanboys would love to see Tesla crash, so they could load up at a discount one more time. They love Tesla when it goes up, but even more when it goes down. That's how sure they are about the future prospects of a company that traditional OEMs only have a chance of surviving if they copy every detail of Teslas production and sales.
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  2099.  @sunrisejak2709 That's all perception, and spin. Tesla is solid in the real world. The market is hysterical from day to day, and thos hysterics are meaningless for investors as opposed to traders. NO competition on earth. A decade ahead of every other EV OEM. About 67 billion dollars have been lost shorting Tesla stock. That should tell you all you need to know regarding spin as opposed to the manufacture of superior technology.
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  2100. Converting prisoners that need to be housed and fed to corpses that no longer degrade your society is not exactly losing human capital.
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  2101. ​ @thomasherrin6798  If you don't count the skirmishes on the Indian border, the invasion of Vietnam, the conquest of Tibet, the attack on NATO (US) forces in Korea, the Chinese civil war, the battles against the Japanese invasion, and hundreds of other armed conflicts over a thousand years, then you are correct and China has not been tested in battle.
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  2102.  @naturalobserver1322  You are not blocked when you respond to someone's comments. If you want to make comments that stand alone but are not blocked, simply start another youtube account and use that one. You're welcome.
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  2103.  @leifbjerner6078  That's funny because Munro claims that the fit and finish of today's Tesla is as good or better than a BMW. You are living in the past.
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  2104.  @djprojectus  Not strange if engineering is what you care about. What you see as hate is simply the statement of facts, nothing is close to Tesla, and pretending that any car is, is just nonsense at this point, and will get worse in the future. As the noobs wait for someone to catch up or produce a Tesla killer, Tesla just pulls further and further ahead of everyone, and innovates and upgrades their EVs at a rate that other OEMs cannot even comprehend.
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  2105. Yeh, except there are no native spirits except in the imagination of some, and if we just reforested the areas that were forested in 1800 and allowed natural predation of herd animals in natural grasslands all the global warming would go away like magic, even if we insisted on continuing to pollute to the present extent.
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  2106. Hey I like Elon: when he is being intelligent and talking about what he knows about. I see where he is coming from: given two horrible choices politically, which is the least bad. But look at the stuff he posts on X. He has no concern whatsoever for the retail investors, many of whom have hung their future on his intelligence and vision. But here's the thing you guys don't understand. He cannot stop. It's compulsive. He just can't shut the F up about stuff that his opinion is no more elevated or objective than a person without millions of followers and he is screwing over the people who support him most. After he told us how much he loves us. If he loved the retail investors that have supported his vision through thick and thin he would just shut the F up. But he can't. He can't shut up. He needs therapy.
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  2107. Russian removal of rubble at the apartment bombings reminds me of how the USA quickly removed the rubble and all steel from the twin towers, and shipped the steel off to China after keeping it under lock and key until it was. The leaders are the problem, especially those who offer a solution to it. Wake up, get rid of all political leaders beyond the local level. They are all parasites, thieves, and egomaniacs. Bush invaded Iraq with no reason other than personal hatred, and wasted lives and treasure just like Putin is now. USA is not holier than thou, USA is thou. Wake up get rid of the wannabe tyrants worldwide. We do not need them. They have held us back for thousands of years.
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  2108. This is were the progressives lose it and the conservative kick your butts. When you defend open boarders, entitlements for foreign workers, etc. You should be educating independents about how the entrenched elites of both parties are selling them out to corporate interests because the campaign finance rules have been corrupted by same. How can you possibly believe that any significant portion of Americans think that foreign workers and people who cross the boarders illegally deserve what they themselves are in many cases denied. Talk about a bubble. You should be hammering over and over about campaign finance reform, all private money out of the election process, and end to this legalized form of bribery. But you continue to insist on championing the values of those who most Americans view as the cause of the present degradation of their own lives. While the reality of it is that the elitists like the Clintons and Bushes etc are to blame. You have to forget about these ancillary issues and focus on the lynch pin of the present mess: the ability of the one percent to control everything by money. How can you be so smart and so stupid. Do you want to win or continue losing?
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  2109. This is investment advice.
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  2110.  @Destorrrrr  Well they have the pseudo-fnancial news networks working for them. Like the time that Tesla dropped fifty points to put a put sweep by whales in the money on the last day, when a fake news story about Musk offering a flight attendant a pony for a hand-job magically appeared and got traction among the ignorant. Most people don't understand that almost all news about Tesla is bull if it comes from a company that relies on advertising revenue for it's existence. So far Tesla has not had to pay the ad vig because Teslas are so vastly superior to any other EV on the market or in planning. But the fantasy world were other companies are producing "Tesla killers" has thousands of sources for their lies because if they put the word Tesla or Musk in their headline the readership/viewership doubles. It's like every new handgun that comes along is a Glock killer, just to get clicks, and yet none of them have killed the Glock for fifty years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXpfU6I_T3w&t=0s
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  2111.  @Destorrrrr  They would have done better to short Nvida or TSMC and any of hundreds of other companies that have not done as well as Tesla since the macro turned. From the standpoint of a long term investor, I have not one worry that Tesla will not be worth much more than it is now selling for in the future. Sort sellers are trading, that is different, most of them go negative over time unless they make a big hit and quit. The typical traders knowledge about Teslas performance as a company is delusionally negative. Probably mostly due to the fact that Tesla does not pay off the media by hundreds of millions in ad revenues every year like the traditonal OEMs. This is just a fact, every little negetive about Tesla, true or entirely fabricated, gets major media time, because they are trying o force Elon to give up the vig. He may well do it and start advertising, not because he needs the sales, but just to get the murderous pack of carrion eating media darlings to shut up and slink away with their golden crumbs.
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  2112. 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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  2113. Well the true believers do have the benefit of the fact that they will never know that they were wrong.
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  2114. I have been using Nord for almost two years and it is by far the best, fastest, and least expensive VPN I have ever used, and I have been using them for over 15 years. Just thought someone may find this useful. I don't know how anyone has the nerve -- or ignorance, to use the net without a VPN on all the time.
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  2115. extrinsic gutathione is useless, it is digested into amino acids.
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  2116. Well you could look at your phone or computer. It's right there all the time. Have a look.
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  2117. @serendipidus1 ha ha ha ha ha: The "rich AND wealthy" lol. God bless your little heart. Next time they ask my permission I'll withdraw my consent. I'll let you know how it goes. What's the address of your nursery school? On the right side of Naive Street -- no? All the investors in silver and gold will be glad to know that their losses due to JPMorgan fuckery will be refunded because JP forgot to ask permission. I have been meaning to call up Goldman Sachs and tell them to stop giving the nation only two evils to choose from too. Robert Mercer apologized and said that he would stop his wanton fuckery through fake righ-wing orgs. And Koch Industries also avowed that they would comply with the popular wish that they stop polluting the ground water with their mining operations, because it is the will of the people not to have flammable tap water and somehow they got it backward when they got the EPA regulations suspended. Glad you pointed that out because I would otherwise have believed my lying eyes.
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  2118. How long until these neuvo-congresspersons are co-opted by Goldman Sacks, and the other elitist shot-calling legal-criminals? If your are over ten years of age you should realize that's what always happens, if it hasn't already.
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  2119. Lots of unionized manufacturers do not lay off workers, they go out of business.
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  2120. India just had a positive test of Agni-prime a new anti ship missile with steerable reentry vehicles. https://bengalcatdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/Lamba.jpg
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  2121. Dr Phil is a media product that nobody needs, despite what he says.
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  2122. Or the problem of reversing aging will have been conquered in the next decade or two and they will all go surfing because only robots work anymore. It's gonna happen.
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  2123.  @nobodyknows3180  I must confess my ignorance on that subject. I am no expert that is for sure, and the only reason I was able to share the info on the rocket assisted guided artillery shells is because of a prolonged argument with a fellow YouTuber over whether or not Ukraine actually needed a US High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. So I had to find out as much as I could about these munitions to defend my position that not only would they not get any, but they didn't need any. While doing this I became convince that anti-artillery systems are the crux of the present situation. Sorry. I was quite delighted to find out about Norway's ramjet powered guided shell. I even tried to find out how to invest in Nammo. Sort of difficult, mostly government owned, but if one is able to buy stock in Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, which I found too difficult, you can buy into a little piece of it. Normally I abjure defense industries on moral grounds but Russia's reptilian antics made me think twice.
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  2124.  @DraconianPolicy  In my view the bases from which the people, at a fair for instance, would arrive at their individual estimates of the number of jelly beans in a large urn is subjective also.  They have no real objective measure either of the total volume of the urn or the volume taken up by each bean.  It is a guess based on limited, though unobscurated perception, and no real possibility of actual measurement.  This is a phenomenon that is noted by the emerging field of epigenetics. Pardon the pun.  So we have an actual situation wherein ants are able to function as an efficient colony, or humans are able to make the most accurate estimate of the number of beans by the average of all guesses. If you are interested in an entertaining exposition of same, Radio Lab did a show about this entitled Epigenetics, or something like that, .  If the result obtained by the mean of all the guesses were dependent on some form of objective measurement, then of course your objection would be valid. However this is not the case. This phenomenon would be equally in effect in a voting process that determined the goals and objectives of a government {not the winning candidate} when such choices were presented to the public without any spin of any kind.  For instance instead of voting for a person, all voting would be upon issues such as. "What percentage of the national budget should be spent on the military?" With a blank space in the ballot were a citizen could provide a percentage they believe to be appropriate.  Remember: this citizen has not been subjected to any disinformation or propaganda, or even any idiotic pundit spin, just such facts as are available at the time, without "expert" prognostication about the resulting impact of various outcomes.
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  2125.  @DraconianPolicy  Certainly though it can be said that there is no correct answer to such questions as that about the military budget, it could be seen that outlier answers such as "We should spend one hundred percent of the national budget on defense", will be balanced out by both the mass of opinion and the outlier opinions on the opposite end of such a continuum. It really doesn't matter to the mechanism in play if there is an objectively correct answer. This will still provide the best possible option at a higher rate than any other method that can be employed. You bring up the objection that everyone will be bringing their own prejudices to their personal opinions when they vote. Thus the death penalty for anyone that propagates falsehood or unsubstantiated news as facts.  Try to imagine a culture that is not awash in disinformation and propaganda by various interests. One were the pundits, instead of filling up air time with what will increase advertising revenue, will simply say, "I don't know." or "This matter is unknown or still in question." when addressing any issue that is not a proven fact. (Strangely reminds me of the Platonic debate as to whether new poetic forms would lead to the degeneration of society.}  As long as the populace is not immersed in disinformation from which they form their opinions, their individual attitudes will only serve to insure the effectiveness of the results of such questions. Though really this "democracy really works, but not why you think it does" proposition is a minor and really fungible element of the Techno-Neo Confucian course that I have proposed. We presently live in a world were some governments call themselves democracies and some communist, but the reality is that in both cases, with few exceptions, they are both functionally fascist.
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  2126. ​ @DraconianPolicy  Good points. Remember, I said that the best possible outcome was relative to the goals already defined by the populace itself. There is no doubt that not everyone would agree that any particular result chosen in this manner would be the best possible outcome. The reason an urn with jelly beans is chosen as an example is basically because it has been used to illustrate this quite unconscious ability of aggregate "minds" (most importantly to the un and pre conscious neural functions) to reach a conclusion that is beyond the abilities of a solitary mind to reach. The urn and beans is an example that is used because it is too complex of a problem for the average person to accurately resolve by the available methods. I will mention if it isn't explicit that we are dealing with a huge urn of a shape complex enough to defy the use of simple geometric formulation. But to simplify: my position is that the same aggregate unconscious dynamic will give as much advantage in reaching decisions that are most congruent with the goals for society: that the populace has already chosen. Decisions on policy that are far more effective in reaching the stated goals of such legislation than would be those not only of the average person but also so-called leaders and pundits in the very fields addressed. In the realm of symbolic logic you are correct to point out the distinction between the urn problem and more seemingly abstract and complex situations with divers variables. In this sense I agree with your objections, however I submit that this dynamic if properly employed will be effective even though it's mechanism is not fully understood. I found the RadioLab show that I had recommended. It is very entertaining. Emergence aug 14, 2007 and touches on various counter intuitive results of emergence. (I don't know why I remembered this as a show on epigenetics but I was incorrect) It would be interesting to set up an experiment to investigate this effect. You have pointed out in your discussion how the best possible option is subjective, I maintain that this is not the case because the result could be judged in an objective sense relative to an already stated goal. This discussion could go on, I suppose, however I believe that with a large enough sample it could be experimentally illustrated, even if the underlying mechanism of such a processed decision cannot be currently delineated. Did you know that the only democracy in the world today is in the nation of Switzerland? I also cannot think of any in past history, despite all the praise for past slave holding republics and such.
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  2127. What a bunch of lies. The first thing the native peoples did upon the arrival of the colonist is try to get them to help them kill other native peoples. The native Americans never surrendered in a fight or battle. Do you know why? Because they knew that if they did they would be taken back to the other tribe;s village and tortured as public amusement for days on end. In Mexico the Native peoples piled of mountains of skulls from their victims of sacrifice and cannibalism. Talk about a death cult -- all you lack is the facts and a real view of what actually happened.
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  2128.  @kuanged  If there is a major conflict the only people who will be able to invest in Chinese companies are Chinese and maybe Russians.
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  2129. Take a minute, listen to some real science unlike this crack-pot theory. Listen to the first five ten minutes of this and you will find out why he is 180 degrees incorrect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0lBVCpq8jc&t=3491s
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  2130. I'm waiting fort one of these updates to be from the moon. This guy travels. . . .
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  2131. Some truth on the subject -- oh no! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Se9H1Hk8K0
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  2132. Tesla ads are a waste because Tesla still believes that people need to be informed to sell cars. Nope: all people who value facts have informed themselves. Bernays proved over a century ago that it is unconscious emotional desires that sell people on ideas, attitudes, and products they really don't need. Tesla will only really benefit from ads when they start to target people though their unconscious desires like the desire for security and sex. Like all the other OEMs who spend billions per year selling fantasy. Only Tesla has more than a fantasy rapped in new sheet metal. Look at the videos of a CT hitting a wall at 140mph: the diver space is nearly still intact -- just amazing. Love your family -- love a CT. And like that.
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  2133. The real news -- what a joke.
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  2134. @Edilio A Yep people all over the world are corrupt, the leaders that is. But they are not corrupt "just like" the USA. They are corrupt in their own unique way.
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  2135.  @nwj486  I would say that accolade is reserved for the anti-Tesla comments on Yahoo Finance. Probably dealers, and ICE parts suppliers, union trolls, and short sellers that are getting gutted.
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  2136. Probably what's really happening.
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  2137. 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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  2138. Perhaps you are forgetting that it was Trump who made the decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Biden actually delayed it for a few months after the date that Trump signed into effect. The mistake in Afghanistan was not leaving, it was bringing in the Army and attempting to nation build, when a few CIA and deta force guys with millions in cash and air support had already done all the work that could be done without pushing into Pakistan with the assistance of the "Northern Alliance" (a bunch of drug lords). Chaney's old company Halliburton made the big bucks throwing away dollars by the C111 full in useless cost plus projects. See the mess we have in the world is mostly due to Bush the stupid and his neocon assembly of Chicago idiots.
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  2139.  @travismccraw6013  Wikipedia says it does.
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  2140.  @travismccraw6013  This war tells me I would not want to be in any tank, or AV, or IFV of any kind on any side. And Russians are nitwits for thinking that other people are stupid enough to believe their lies, when they have been consistently two faced lairs for centuries. But in the interviews with middle aged and old Russians you see, you can tell that they have no idea about what is really happening and really don't want to, because they are comfortable in their delusions and will cling to them like the dead enders they are.
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  2141. How about: because it is next to their plant einstein.
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  2142.  @Skunk106  I take it you have never been to an Asian city.
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  2143. And e scooters are a venue where battery swapping works great. Take Gorgoro, a beautiful little scooter that you never have to charge, you just pull up to the local 7/11 deposit your battery in a slot and take a charged one. Should be an enormous game changer. Faster than pumping gas and perfect for places like Thailand, India, etc,
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  2144.  @serafinacosta7118  Asia is the place where it will actually matter. Take a look at a street scene in Vietnam or Thailand.
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  2145. Well the invasion has begun. I think that in general, news sources have it backwards. Russia holds the financial hammer, not NATO, but Russia's military is not all that. I think the state of California alone could wipe the floor with them. Unfortunately for Ukraine, California is far far away.
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  2146.  @ZennExile  Hostility as amusement: a true Zennish achievement (of the reptile brain). I bet you pull the wings off flies to make you happy. Even if you don't, that is what you are doing here. Consider this: EVERYONE is enlightened EXCEPT you. . . . (Notice the proper use of ellipses.)
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  2147. I hear a lot of talk here. Talk is cheap, and when it comes to the types of power-elites you are addressing, no matter how petty their power actually is, as in the case of most police, money and only money talks. Though people are told they are "born equal", there is no segment of our society were there is actual equality. Obviously no two people are equal in their physical, emotional, and mental aspects. Even twins are not equal in many regards. But the one area where we could be equal because of our own will to make it so, is equality before the law. As you all know, equality before the law, is a joke in America. If you are police you are more than equal before the law. If you are wealthy you have access to equality and more so in a justice system that is distinct in function from that seen by an average person caught up in the life ruining process. If you are someone like Trump, you thrive because this inequality can be turned against anyone you want. Then you can brag about how you could get away with murder in public and have your idiot supporters cheer when you say it.
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  2148. More Rhonda Patrick and fewer comedians, fighters, and ancient alien squirrels, please.
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  2149. The guy in the back needs a little more training with that AK.
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  2150. I'll give you two to one odds on that statement. Put your money where your mouth is. However you can get much better odds than that from the bookies.
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  2151. You don't know the first thing about what you are talking about. Trump made the commitment to pull out of Afghanistan, Biden delayed it for a few months, but the deal was already made by Trump. The whole idea of nation building in Afghanistan was a Halliburton scam. The Americans should have just pulled out entirely after Bin Laudin fled the country. Only a fool would get involved with a country that has made it's primary money maker being invaded. On the other hand, the freedom movement in Iran is has been going nowhere forever, and it will never put an end to the tyranny of insane religious nuts that run the country.
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  2152. Don't want to spoil anyone's fun, but the truth is: it doesn't matter a bit what anyone thinks about any political issue unless they have mega bucks or can legally order armed men to act, legally or otherwise. That's the fact, your vote doesn't even matter at all, or your opinion on anything concerning real power. Of course you are free to goose your own hormones by believing otherwise and expressing your opinion and criticism, but it's all pouring from nullity into the void. A waste of time, and an act of narcissistic limbic masturbation, except for the people making money off your belief that it matters what you think, say or write -- it doesn't -- not at all. Including this statement, seeing as like maybe 1% of any readers will realize this fact with the right joy because of their release from delusion.
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  2153. warthog defense gives updates several times a day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP9PticIpN8
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  2154. You don't know didely if you think that the USA has never been attacked. What an incredibley stupid statement. And about Ukraine: Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians.
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  2155.  @andrewrourke9519  Spoken like a Kremlin state worker. If you want to know what Russia is really doing, just find out what it is Russia is accusing others of doing: works 100% of the time. "Voted" :face-purple-crying: . . . what an imbecile.
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  2156.  @andrewrourke9519  You trust Trump and his cabal. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 say no more fool.
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  2157.  @andrewrourke9519  Learn something despite yourself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnBlSR7EoLA
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  2158. There is still a way for Trump to stay in office by constitutional fuckery. All states are not required to have electors vote in congruence with the popular vote. If Trump can rally the governors in the red states who do not require this to instruct the electors to vote for Trump he can still maintain office. It has nothing to do with court cases, court cases are just round one. This TED talk will telll you the details. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w
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  2159. doubtful -- even laughable.
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  2160. Obviously incubated by short sellers on Wall Street,.
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  2161. Your reasoning does not necessarily reflect market dynamics. In 2020 the market crashed and precious metals crashed along with it, despite the obvious "reasoning" that you note, having the same rational as earlier.
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  2162. The Stanford Prisoner Experiment should tell us everything we need to know about giving people authority and uniforms and weapons and telling them to enforce order. Even when they know it's an act they become extremely abusive. And in case you didn't know it. . . it's all an act. (I guess I better add: it's all an act in a cosmic sense because these brutes have forgotten who they really are, and there will be much weeping if they ever remember. Tears of sadness over what they have done in their dark ignorance and tears of joy over remembering that that is not who they are.)
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  2163. Unfortunately the Americans who dispense this "medicine" are not the ones who will get any taste of what they cause elsewhere. The majority of Americans do not condone violence or aggression against anyone, but they are those who will taste any poetic justice directed against the power elite, or merely the inevitable effect of their geopolitical hegemony. On the other hand peace on earth has only ever existed for any length of time when there was hegemony of one stripe or another. But now it could be different. The Trumptards are too dumb to realize how stupid they are, and they are too stupid to realize that the deleterious effects they are experiencing and anger them to violence, +both real and otherwise, are a result of the Wall Street banksters and power elite just doing business under the laws that they had passed to make their crimes of bribery and their kleptocracy legal.
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  2164. Tesla already dominates the charger networks, by so far that there is no real comparison. Tesla is doing it's competitors, one of whom lied about the EV landscape repeatedly in interviews and would not even say Tesla's name, a big favor. If you knew anything at all you would know that Tesla has a stated mission that it has adhered to and that mission is to accelerate the change over to renewable energy. Your petty concerns are unfounded and a result of media FUD and hater nonsense.
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  2165.  @dansiwek3593  Plus they are stupid enough to think that YouTube has censors that aren't just machines that use logarithms to determine if a reply gets censored or not.
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  2166. Covid deaths are minuscule in comparison to the deaths caused by the American Diet. Recently the Cochran Library did the definitive study that concluded that if one gave up saturated fat and moved to a plant based diet 20% of deaths by heart disease would be avoided. What's the matter CNN -- sponsors not liking the real science? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y14KhGl7kSw
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  2167. @lati long The Russians are incapable of maintaining a democratic republic. They long for a big daddy to tell them that everything is alright and keep the jackboot continually in their faces. In their drunken TB induced stupor that's how they know they are loved.
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  2168.  @ac_pejk3113  In twenty years people will not be able to believe that the marginal territories in central Asia and Eastern Europe once constituted a single nation ruled by a succession of tyrants and incompetents.
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  2169.  @jakep5442  Bet they wish they had never given up their nuclear weapons.
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  2170. Ford, Mercedes, GM, VW group this is SOP. And doesn't really compare to them deciding that it is cheaper to pay a wrongful death suit now and then instead of installing seat belts, which actually happened at GM, and you know about VW and Mercedes continual cheating on omissions, it's not because of a difficult time, this happens all the time. It's not just Trump that stiffs his contractors.
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  2171. You should not talk about this because you obviously know nothing. There has been no peace and stability in Kashmir since the sixties. No I am not an Indian troll just look at my channels. You should just stfu.
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  2172. Learn some real history and your attitude will change.
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  2173. As opposed to what? . . . uncolored paint?
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  2174. The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources: cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The most important thing a person can do to address climate change, as an individual, is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, our grandchildren will be forced to decide if they should eat their babies in the hope of surviving a few more weeks when crops fail globally. That's the choice: do we indulge our blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered reactive opinions, or do we leave future generations a planet worth living on? Or do we just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things, and put off acting until it's beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of us, even if convinced of the dire reality of the global climate situation, will go on with our rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are we rational moral beings, or just mad machines that really have no control over ourselves?
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  2175. Politics sucks ass. Isn't it apparent to everyone by now that our political system is an archaic artifact? An artifact based on humanities inability to escape it's bestial warlike nature . . . :campaigns, winner take all victories, leaders who neither lead (excepting the advancement of the concerns of their patrons) nor have the wisdom to make intelligent impartial decisions on the issues of the day. This political web of deceit is a self-perpetuating parasite that warps collective social culture and is itself continually warped due to shameful self-interested exploitation by those who control the economy through control of debt manipulation. Interests and principalities that spew false narratives which have contaminated every aspect of our expectations of daily life, and our future aspirations (or lack of them). I suggest to you that there are other alternatives. Far more efficient alternatives, that would benefit the whole of society and reduce the corruption that is not only a systemic disease of our political system, but is now the very sinew, marrow, and circulatory system, of a body politic that has done everything possible to free itself from both morality and justice through legislative and legal complexities, technicality, outright lies, and all manner of fuckery. It is time to evolve folks. Like a cool pool on a hot day, once you take the plunge it's refreshing and rejuvenating, but before you take that plunge there is hesitation and a resistance to a state change. And we must change the state of our state unless we consider moving into the future by looking through a rear-view mirror and stepping on our own dicks every step of the way while perpetually bitiching about it to be some kind of desirable human prerogative. Because as it is, it will never be able to meet our real human needs or provide anything more than updated reruns of the same old conundrums. If human culture and civilization is to advance it must evolve to a higher state, a higher system of state, which will nurture higher states of mind in the populace, not continually drag it back by aggravating the primal survival instinct in a technological environment wherein this instinct is counterproductive on numerous levels. I suggest to you that a body politic based on a NeoConfusian Techno-Meritocracy would not only be vastly superior for the state of the state, state of the economy, state of human advancement, and our collective state of mind, that any comparison to the present drunken knife fight in a gilded bordello that passes for our government would be comical.
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  2176. Why do China's missiles have greater range than the USA's? Not because they are more advance, but because the range of US of this class was limited by treaties with the USSR. This is now over and the new US missiles do not have the old limitations.
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  2177. If you are gonna fact check all Trumps lies you will need a full time staff, and a two hour show dedicated to it each day. Trump can actually lie faster than he can talk. He lies just because he can't help himself, not that he wants to, but he is a compulsive -- that's COMPULSIVE liar. He lies even when it makes no sense, even when it makes no difference to anyone, even when it's against he own best interests. He is the ultimate sock puppet, the ultimate distraction for the profit of the people that have gained the largest transfer of wealth in American history. Guess who that would be? Really -- guess. One person it ain't for sure, is you, and 99 percent of his rube supporters. The Conman in Chief: the punishment inflicted on America by the insanely greedy upper upper, who he has tried to get to keep supporting him with dark money and tactics, by giving them windfall after windfall, and his base of political support: his insanely credulous know-less-than-nothing supporters -- along with the flock of scum-bag sycophant enablers that lick his butt. If you ain't sick to the point of gagging, of ALL TRUMP ALL THE TIME -- then you're probably too dumb to know you're stupid, . . . or very rich.
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  2178. Really a flash from the past when the government ran the banks.
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  2179.  DrMossydog  Clinton
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  2180. Jessie Ventura would be a good choice if we are given it.
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  2181. EA was started with money from VW group as part of fine they had to pay for planned and executed felony cheating on emissions tests. They rigged the car computers to report lower emissions and circumvent US law. How could you expect any system that was initiated as a part of punishment to work? Tesla's system works. Your concern is irrelevant and smacks of a Teslsa hater, like a union shill, or a dealership owner/investor, big oil -- take your pick, they continuously flood the media with lies about Tesla or concerns that are meaningless like yours. Tesla has paid back every dollar the govenment granted it with interest Less than four years after borrowing $465 million from the government, Tesla has become the first automaker to repay its loan under the Energy Department's Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program. GM only appeared to pay back its bailout loan. But the debt was only part of the automaker bailout package. Through the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Treasury gave GM $49.5 billion, most of which was converted into an ownership stake in the form of stock. Through this equity stake, the government still owns 61 percent of GM. That's why it is refferred to as Government Motors, a total rip off of the taxpayer, by repaying in stock that lost value in seconds, and has a very real chance of becoming worthless in the coming decade.
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  2182. That doesn't matter in the fantasy land of Tesla FUD.
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  2183. I can tell you what China would do if its situation and that of the USA were reversed regarding Taiwan. They would get another country such as Israel to send scientist to Taiwan to transfer the tech of nuclear weapons to Taiwan.
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  2184. I have never used Twitter and don't intend to, but I seem to know that the use of Twitter has and is increasing even after Musk bought it (and you don't). Don't believe the FUD.
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  2185. Bernie will crush Trump in the general election! As to whether or not he will win the presidency is another matter. My recently deceased PA coal region father voted for Trump, but would have voted for Bernie if he had not been cheated out of the nomination. In either case it is curious that we ended up with two of the most despised creatures in America as our main choices. Bernie was cheated by a DNC that has no legal obligation to be fair or honest, and who take full advantage of every backroom deceit that they can come up with. Biden is for voters who would rather see another four years of Trump than have Bernie as president. Bernie will speak for all but the power-elite and the unending supply of co-opted sycophantic slugg-heads that surround them and do things like manage the various corporate news venues.
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  2186.  @smarternu  Yes a pack of lies is frequently a good thing. Take Santa Clause for instance. Who doesn't like Santa. And while the Mormon used to massacre wagon trains of settlers traveling to Oregon and make it seem like it was Indians doing it, I hear they don''t have to do that anymore. They own shopping plazas and apparently loads of exoplanets where the men rule after death if they dominate enough women while alive. Sure nothing wrong with delusional cults having economic and political power. If you like shysters in control of people. There are two kinds of people who are all gunge-ho on religion: the people who know they are lying and the people who don't know they are lying. Both dangerous, but the people who don't know they are lying are more dangerous.
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  2187.  @smarternu  Satanists? What fricken' century are we in? Oh, I forgot, you got to have satanists so the truly evil people can convince the weak minded to do their bidding. A vast proportion of the truly evil people are religious leaders and politicians. Don't believe me? Try asking one of those frauds to return the money they swindled some muddled geriatric grandma out of.
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  2188.  @smarternu  You may think the activity of your nervous system is a "soul" but I could prove to you in one second with an ice pick and a clamp to hold your head steady that it can be permanently altered (perhaps for the better in some cases) with a poke through the eyesocket and a few swishes through the frontal lobes. Soul gone, thoughts about needing one -- gone. Oh but then I forgot, that the brain is just a kind of radio receiver for your real soul that just hovers around somewhere. Really how the hell are humans ever going to get rid of this nonsense if people are continually brainwashed by a bunch of psychopaths claiming they know "God's Will" because it is in a book with so many errors that you can't get past the first page without spotting a half dozen of them if you have any knowledge of reality at all?
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  2189.  @chrise-ih4ix  I forgot to put the /s at the end of my statement. I just leaned about the sarcasm clue and have to start using it. In reality there is no need for anyone to feel the need to disprove the existence of a "soul" it is the fantasists that believe in it who have the burden of proof, and apparently proof plays no part in their cerebration. You do know that the belief in a soul as it is found today is a rather recent invention. Quite distinct from the statements about resurrection found in their book. Which I guess could take place at some point far in the future through the melding of genetic technology and AI. Of course it wouldn't really be you that would be decanted by some automated system, just one's genetics, so it would be like a twin that got lost for a few eons.
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  2190.  @joshuaashton1929  I edit almost all of my post, because of my wireless keyboard being too far from my computer I guess, some strokes get missed or I make a mistake. Will some people think I went back and changed them after someone replied to them, maybe, I don't really care. Sometimes I do change them if I find out my sources were incorrect, and when I do that I am going to adopt your technique of announcing the reason for an edit, but for typos and such, I just make too many of them so that's out. But I do admire your integrity.
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  2191. How can something that is inanimate develop a survival instinct?
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  2192. Don't hold your breath.
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  2193. This is great on one hand and it is total bullshit on another. The world has to step up in Ukraine. The entire world is being held hostage by nuclear blackmail. It is the biggest bluff of all history. Russia will not use nukes unless Russia is attacked within it's boarders. When asked if he would respond in kind to a nuclear barrage that hit Russia if, it's response would end human civilization Putin responded, "Of course, what would the world be without Russia?" The correct answer to that question is: "Better". The world would be a better place for everyone without Russia, and though they don't know or won't admit it, it would be a better place for Russians most of all. Why have the leaders in the free world lost their balls, especially Germany, remember the wall, you gutless German leaders, remember the Berlin crisis, were would you be today if the free world had not defied the soviets? Still in hell eating bowls of tears that where.
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  2194. I can tell by your posts that you are kind of reality challenged but surely even you can understand that a lower percentage of a bigger pie gives a bigger piece of pie than a higher percentage of a smaller pie. Think about it, if you are not totally brain locked. Or try this, you may be able to understand it this way. Tesla is selling more cars this year than they did last year even though they have a lower percentage of the total EV market, because the market has grown tremendously. I hope that makes sense to you. But if it doesn't or you still think that Tesla is in trouble, you can rest assured that your are expressing your inability to understand basic math.
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  2195.  @Willys-Wagon  Your facts may be correct but your analogy is oxymoronical. Even school children know that "A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link." The very nature of a chain is that if one link is broken the chain will not function. The experience with covid supply chains illustrated this quite clearly. As Mr. Musk said, "The delay in the delivery of one part can bring an entire assembly line to a halt."
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  2196. Regarding the question at 59:33: my goodness, "All men are created equal" is rhetoric. No men are created equal except identical twins and even they do not remain equal in certain regards. The only possibility of equality among humans is equality before the law, and equality of those aspects of society that we intentionally determine to impose degrees of equality upon, such as healthcare etc. And we have fallen woefully short in our beliefs and actual enactments of these. Before the law there are the power elite and their enablers, and the capite censi: two classes as distinct as the nobles and the peasants of the Dark Ages, and as the recent studies verify: which are so embedded in our plutocratic kleptocracy as to be ambient and go unnoticed until there is trouble. No problem until there is trouble may as we be the slogan of the power elite. The species is weeping for a neoConfusian technomeritocracy the world over, yet the power hungry psychopaths remain the leaders of our culture world-wide.
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  2197. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  2198. Except when the truth doesn't suit her agenda.
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  2199. No need to worry: Trump says climate change is a hoax.
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  2200.  @kadeemk4679  You can.
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  2201.  @kadeemk4679  Just highlight it and save it as a text file.
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  2202.  Jacob Strom  Knee jerk reactions are for jerks -- Yacup, but I bet you know all about that. That's what you took away from my comment? That I am saying it is the Jew's fault? You need to work on your reading comprehension.
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  2203.  Jacob Strom  The word Jews is capitalized in English. Also an ellipsis consists of three periods with a space between each one. If it is used at the end of a sentence with a period, it should follow the period after a space. . . .
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  2204. Fentenyl is a kiss blown to America from China, via Mexico. Who wouldn't trust Chinese businessmen? They probably just want Americans who are down and out to feel good.
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  2205. Looks like an old Jag sedan. 61 Jag MK2
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  2206. Just keep cutting down forests for pasture land. Just keep eating meat and dairy, who are these damn vegans to blame everyone else for climate change? Lets celebrate the end of civilization with a big barbecue and offer thousands of cows as burnt offerings. Maybe then the gods will do what our brains are incapable of. Maybe Spiderman will save us. Lets all ignore the biggest cause of greenhouse gases -- which is the forests cut down for animal agriculture. There is nothing you can do as an idividual -- have a hotdog and enjoy life -- for a while.
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  2207. The Reporter is ignorant and unprepared. She allowed him to tell one lie after another without her even knowing he was lying half the time. For instance he told a half dozen lies in a row about electric vehicles and totally ignored the fact that the largest factory in the USA is a Tesla factory in Texas that is producing the cars that have the MOST American parts and labor of any car sold in the USA. This interview is a joke, Trump trampled all over her, and as usual, all over the truth. He is the only person I know who can actually lie faster than he can talk.
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  2208.  @thorrrr1962  Nope. I never said that. Try comprehending what you read.
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  2209.  @maggie960-f2n  I do miss Cali.
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  2210. I respected DW news until now. The real facts: nobody is catching up, in fact Tesla is pulling further ahead. Also the main stream media reporting on Tesla's safety is total nonsense. Tesla is the safest auto that you can buy and it has been proven. No one is catching Tesla especially not VW whose auto is inferior to Tesla in almost every way.
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  2211. @G M If you ignore all the crash tests, and real evidence, then what you say is almost true. Teslas are the safest cars presently availiable and the tests prove it. Unlike your hyperbolic nonsense, they are based in reality. Too bad if you shorted Tesla and lost your shirt, you deserve it.
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  2212. Judging from your attempt, you would be a good judge because obviously crafting a sentence is beyond your abilities.
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  2213.  @hermesliteratus882  The Tesla model Y is the car sold in America with the most American parts and labor. It is number one. Three of Tesla's four car models are ranked in the top ten of cars with the most American parts and labor. No GM,or Ford, cars even make it into the top ten. And most importantly ALL OF THE TESLAS SOLD IN AMERICA ARE BUILT IN AMERICA. Guess that blows your theory. Next time try some facts. And FYI the Tesla model Y is the highest selling car in China. It sells more than any other car including gas cars and hybrids. Try some facts Jack.
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  2214.  @tveggemeyer8103  No, it takes first, fourth, ninth, and twenty first with cars. I imagine it takes first in trucks too, but I am only guessing because cybertruck is all American.
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  2215.  @Paint-brigade1776  Tesla model Y is the most American car. Tesla cybertruck is the most American pickup. Tesla semi, well, probably first or tied for first. ALL Teslas sold in the USA are built in the USA, and they make most of their own parts too..
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  2216.  @petesmitt  Yep that is one of the exceptions.
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  2217. He was an teenagae amatuer pilot, he landed near red square, but he was tracked by Russia all the way. They just didn't want to shoot him down.
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  2218. You got that right, people are not trying to break into China (unless they live in N, Korea) or Iran, or even Russia. Loads of people are trying to immigrate to areas of the earth that are inhabited and governed and were organized by the authors of the enlightenment and the industrial revolution. Europe and North America. But if these areas allow all the people who want to to enter, they will no longer be places that people what to move too, because the primary character of a nation is genetic, not legal, or economic or even religious, those are all seconday effects of the prime cause -- genetics. And if that is not true, then why do people want to move somewhere like Germany or Canada? It ain't for the weather or cooking. Your genes are your elementary culture.
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  2219. Guess you just don't know what checkmate means.
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  2220. Dude, you should just move to the woods. Starlink makes it possible.
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  2221. I used to work for Ford many years ago. One thing that most people didn't know, is that you used to be able to order any color you wanted for just a few hundred dollars over standard colors. I mean any color. They even had a book with hundreds of paint chips. Be nice if Tesla could do that some day.
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  2222.  @BestInTESLA  Yeh, I know, but with all the intelligence at Tesla, maybe someday. In the mean time you can always get a wrap, some are being precut to fit Teslas. You are definitely the best Tesla channel, and there are four or five really good ones.
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  2223. Was this a great interview, like so many comments assert? Well, it was a new level for Elon. But on second thought I can see by the comments that many people in the audience hadn't heard these Elon tropes before, or understood what he was all about. Maybe doing this interview was just another brilliant move on his part, but I would hazard a guess that for the Q crowd: it's F150s "all the way" babe. Tesla up over seven percent yesterday. . . . I think Jesus ordered a cybertruck.
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  2224. All most all of those who are getting seriously ill from covid have not been vaccinated. All most all of those people in the USA who have refused to be vaccinated have a magical world-view and are politically regressive. Sort of a glass half-full/glass half empty thing, or one might say social Darwinism in action. Problem is not so much them killing themselves, but most of them still think climate change is a socialist lie and like it or not, we live on the same planet. Eighty nine percent of the green house gases that are going to bring an end to all debate on this, or any subject, are produced by animal agriculture. One guess which political persuasion engenders the lowest number of people who eat a plant based diet? A persons present decision about whether or not to continue supporting and advancing the biggest cause of climate change is not about one's personal freedom, it is about whether or not you want your grandchildren to have to eat their children to live a little longer. But look on the bright side: it will be a wonderful time to be a tyrant, and psychopaths everywhere will flourish like there's no tomorrow, and there won't be. So give thanks for covid and the grand opportunity it is providing for the delusional to cull themselves in the USA.
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  2225.  PJ R  lol -- grow up, and wisdom will no longer molest you.
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  2226. That won't work.
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  2227.  @dianahill7239  You do need help.
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  2228. Problem is, that Musk is acting like a jerk and is associated with Trump, and Trump is going to drive the economy into a ditch, it already started. The last pres to downsize the CIA was Carter, and they devastated the economy to get rid of him. Trump done F'd with the wrong people. Prepare for a real recession, that will make the populace hate Trump, maybe the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency.
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  2229. "Biopolar stacking" sounds like an orgy for manic depressives.
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  2230. I don't know who Cenk thinks he is yelling at/preaching to? He doesn't have any power, and no one who watches his show has any either, so really he just sounds impotent, and silly. People's lives would be a lot more harmonious if they stopped believing that what they think matters. It doesn't even matter to they themselves, or else they wouldn't be all foaming at the mouth to convince other people that they are right. It's simple really, if you have mega $ you can pay to have what you think matter, and if you command armed men, you can force your opinions on others, but if you are you, or me, like almost everyone, well, what you think just doesn't matter at all. It's lots of fun, in a not-fun kind of way, but is really a delusional waste of time to believe that our opinion on matters that you will have no effect on at all, matter for some reason. It doesn't..
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  2231. Scotty Kilmer reported that this is one of the few toyota engines that fail consistently and should be avoided at all cost. It seems you disagree. I would go with Scotty since he has been repairing them for decades and says you are a fool to buy a car with this engine.
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  2232. Looks like my comment disappeared. Probably because I put a link to the lineup of the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Which is without any doubt the best thing that happens in the USA every year, including everything. Check it out the talent lineup is near unbelievable. Joe Bonamassa, Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Johm Batiste, Neil Young, etc. etc. I am there every year for the last thirty years -- nothing, I mean nothing compares. Also plan to visit San Sebatian for the music festival next Summer and try to catch Bonamassa at the Albert Hall.
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  2233. This whole subject is the babble of the insane puritanical conditioning of the populace by the psychopaths that are in control. These laws create a climate in which people turn to street drugs and the hell our laws hand to them. It is insane to think that prohibition works. It does not work and it has never worked. Even in countries with death penalties for use and sale of drugs, it does not work. Opioids are one of the most benign drugs you can use long term. Less harmful than common over the counter drugs that the fools who believe these laws take regularly. Switzerland solved their heroin problem by making it freely available to addicts. What happened? They self titrated and went back to work instead of being out on the street trying to come up with the money for dealers.  This whole problem is self-created. Perhaps we should return to the ultra insane times when doctors and loved ones would withhold pain meds from those in their care who were dying in agony, because they did not want them to become addicted in the final months of their lives. This used to happen all the time, not so long ago. I witnessed it happen to a beloved great aunt when I was a teenager. Anyone who supports this policy is an idiot and thinks that doing the same thing that doesn't work over and over again is a good idea. Why were opioids made illegal in the first place? Because the miners and other factory serfs in England began to prefer tinctures of opium as opposed to alcohol. With good reason. So of course the distillers demonized the use of same. While the facts are that opioids are far less harmful than alcohol or even than tylenol. If you don't know these facts, and I suspect you do not. You basically know nothing about what you have commented on. Which is par for the course on the net. If you really dislike drug dealers, both criminal and noncriminal, then you should be in favor of complete decriminalization of all molecules, and the sanction for anyone to grow any plant they want to and use it themselves, like any free adult should be able to do. Then a person could grow a little plot of poppies and treat their own pain.
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  2234. I kinda agree, however DN is also spun. They also depend heavily on conformation bias to keep and attract viewers. The Real News Network, is also ok. Outside of science, and even they fail at times, there is no real objective news. That includes DN. My favorites are Chomsky and Hedges, however prepare to be depressed by Hedges and minimally inspired by the way forward that Chomsky promotes.
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  2235.  @davidagonburg490  I have seen it on some cable channels while visiting friends. But other than that only on the net. NPR is not what it use to be since the Koch money came in.
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  2236.  @BenGrem917  Well put and I agree, but you should also know that the first response that I made to your reply was deleted by Democracy Now (censored) because it pointed out their pet cause, about which they will brook no truth, or facts. Any statement about this issue is censored and it doesn't matter how many times you post it. So yeah they are great, but they are biased and enact heavy censorship, and I am not talking about foul language. I am talking about their pet cause.
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  2237. I find his voice annoying, good thing he isn't saying anything much, just yaking on and on with his blinding flashes of the obvious. Alan Watts did it better and decades ago. This guy isn't in the same class as someone like Watts, Gurdjieff, Jan Cox, or Carlos Dwa. But he is popular.
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  2238. The most dangerous thing about fasting is starting to eat again. Re-feeding syndrome is real and it is deadly. During fast you must keep up your potassium levels and electrolytes. If you get cramps in your muscles when you break a fast you are doing it wrong.
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  2239.  @lostpony4885  Yes: my guess is that at first silver and gold will be the money, then as the harsh reality dawns on people, freeze dried food, seed, and bullets. Then we will eat each other and our babies, like has happened so many times before in famines. If this were inevitable it would be one thing, but we could totally reverse the climate change in very little time, but -- and this is a big but -- we would have to reforest all the land that has been cleared for the grazing of livestock. And basically people would have to stop eating meat and dairy products, which they are quite addicted to. So, though complete wasteland, like you find in the Middle East can be revived in just a few years, by stopping the grazing of sheep and goats and replanting native grasses, also the meat and dairy industry would have to disappear because people stopped buying their products. By the reforestation of the land that is now used for grazing, we would reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases by 87%. It is not just the one percent and their political minions that would have to evolve consciously, it is the average person. That I find most improbable. What I see happening is too little too late, and a massive die off of humanity, with the end of civilization as we know it. And of course the one percent, hiding in their bunkers in New Zealand and private islands, will eventually be dug out and killed in horrible ways. -- Just saying. Maybe Elon Musk and company will do better on Mars, if they make it, and eventually re-civilize a world that has descended into a new dark age.
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  2240. If you look at nations and empires and such as organism, and their politics as feedback system within that organism: it can easily be seen that political power has only been gained by two modes. This has been true from the time of the electors of the Holy Roman Empire and even before. You either gain power by giving some of the wealth and power of the elites to the commoners or by giving that of the common people to the elites. This can almost be seen as the breathing of a nation over time. It is long past time that America took a long deep inhale because every politician since Reagan has been presiding over a fire sale of the wealth and power of the common people to the power-elite.
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  2241. This is all so 20th century. Lets say that some state actor weaponized a virus or other pathogen and targeted it genetically. They could literally get rid of whomever was bothering them. Lets say China for instance has some beef with white people in general. No problem, start a pandemic that targets organisms that code for lactose tolerance. All white people and some others die. You could even pretend to offer aid to them while they succumb to the virus. The possibilities are endless. And real cheap compared to other strategic systems. You could code a virus that would infect everyone in the world before the first person demonstrated symptoms. You could already have such a virus and never even know it until it was too late.
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  2242. The populace as individuals is not wise enough to govern itself. This can be overcome by the ignition of epigenetic dynamics of collective intelligence, but not in the presence of a culture rife with disinformation, spin, and partisan narratives. Chomsky has great hope in youthful activism. I do not share his optimism. Not while apparently the great mass of the human population on earth is incapable of telling fact or at least accuracy that for all practical purposes approaches fact like quantum mechanic, from fiction.
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  2243. My favorite EV. Tell me that what the world doesn't need is a Tesla model 2 roadster McMurty edition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oje38PLDQmY
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  2244. Everybody loves a clown. Especially when the clown isn't smart enough to see how dumb he is.
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  2245.  @tonywilson4713  American companies frequently have foreign owners (stockwise). I grew up in an area of the country that has been fucked over and over by the coal industry for centuries. A few decades ago when someone became curious about who actually owned Reading Company (one would assume some company in Reading PA) It turned out to be mostly foreign investors who were far from the massive death and destruction their company had caused, foreigners like the Spanish royal family.
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  2246. Worlds largest lithium deposit found in Nevada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHu7OAgzKZQ
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  2247. ​ @tonywilson4713  You are reflecting my own sentiments regarding the neocons, and economic theories that seeped out of Chicago. On the other hand I do not consider all concentrations of wealth as evil. A billion people with one dollar each could not do much while one person with a billion dollars to allocate could do a lot of good or harm. But my own view is that we are really on the verge of abundance, and people like Musk will be fighting and joking all the way to get us there. My guess is that there will be a viable Teslabot, not to mention a car that drives itself much more safely than the average human, and the bots will bring a massive evolution to the world economy. Along with this, nano particles that have recently been isolated in mammalian blood seem likely to make extreme youthful longevity available to everyone on earth. So live another decade or two if you can and you may well live another hundred years in a financial situation that today seems ludicrous to even presume.
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  2248. Quite right on all counts.
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  2249. Guess you never rode in a model S with active noise cancellation huh?
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  2250.  @arsni23  Guess you do, huh lol. Highest owner satisfaction, best engineering, safest in a collision. The bubble is in your head.
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  2251.  @ElMistroFeroz  Glad to hear it. When I see a non Tesla EV I always kind of feel like the buyers didn't do their due diligence. I am about in the middle of the cybertruck line. I think it may take two years to come up. I know there are some out there, but I have yet to meet a regular real Tesla owner who was not very positive about their car.
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  2252. Contrary to stopping work on the cheap EV to work on the cybertruck, the message I took away from Elons report is that the cybertruck was also put on pause.
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  2253.  @jcd776  You are the victim of propaganda. You are mind hobbled.
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  2254. If you haven't noticed, the government has real weapons, unlike what the average citizen is allowed to have legally.
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  2255. lol what a bunch of crap.
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  2256. And when we project the denied certainty, that we will end onto the world because our minds cannot accept it we have "the end of the world"
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  2257. Some seriously stupid Trump cultist posting here today. Too stupid to realized how dumb they are.
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  2258. You give the impression that Kennedy ran against Ike, but of course that that is not true.
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  2259. Sooner or later even the most rabid Trump cultist will see what he really is, and be quite ashamed, if only to themselves for having been such a foolish rube.
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  2260. Sorry Warren is not going to be the first female president: Tulsi will be the first female president in 24. Remember that.
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  2261.  @finalfansix /s = scarcasm
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  2262. Vice News has great access; never fails to impress.
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  2263. Hard to believe that it was only back in the Clinton Administration that we were running a budget surplus. And at the time it looked like it would be a surplus from then on. It took Bush the stupid, Obama, and Trump to destroy that. Mostly Bush, but Trump did give the richest Americans a huge tax break while spending the USA into debt faster than any other president to date. While Bush the stupid didn't destroy the economy with tax breaks for the people who need them least during the midst of wild spending, he did set up the whole destruction of the economy with his stupid invasions and nation building. You may be thinking, but what about Bidden? Bidden's spending is strengthening the economy, bringing back manufacturing and transitioning to sustainable energy, and trying to reestablish a strong middle class, like the one the GI bill created after WW2. An uphill battle against a corrupt insider trading congress controlled by money and not much else.
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  2264.  @Art-is-craft They are unthinkably massive. In land alone they own over 29% of the land in the USA.
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  2265.  @mosesque8784  Tesla model 3 is the number one selling car, of all cars EV and ICE in Europe. Model Y is the number one selling car in California. Outside of one small golf car posing as an EV, Tesla is number one in China. Your idea that Tesla will be left behind in tech is utter, that's utter nonsense. Name one EV in mass production that is even comparable to Tesla? If you think there is one you are deluded. There is such a massive difference between manufacturing some electronic device and an EV, that the fact that you even made such a comparison, speaks volumes, about the volumes of fact you fail to consider.
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  2266.  @mishkosimonovski23  Dude, in a conventional war the state of California alone would take Russia's army behind the woodshed and spank it until it cried for it's mommy. That's why Russia's fearless nincompoop has to bluff with nuclear weapons, because his army is so incompetent and weak, and is incapable of fighting against anything but third rate forces, and even they are gonna bleed it until is falls apart. And then the payback for all the civilian executions, and child rapes, and infants crushed in their cribs begins.
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  2267. Not "hair's length": "hair's breadth" . . . hair's breadth noun : a very small distance or amount : very close He came within a hair's breadth of winning the race.
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  2268. Tesla and other companies are producing megpacks like crazy and have back orders for years. They are much less expensive than fossil peaker plants that are currently used to supplement electricity generation, and also solve the problem you present. I am quite amazed that anyone is currently unaware that this problem has been overcome years ago. And by the way, you only have a 12 hour nighttime two days a year.
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  2269. Why would you want to corrupt him?
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  2270. Most police are good. If this was true, the bad cops would not exist because the good ones would not tolerate them. All and all the police are now a force for evil in America. They have proven what they are over and over and over. The time has come for the real good people to rise up and change this evil before the last chance of wresting America back from the evil power elite and the politicians they own like dogs, is lost for ever.
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  2271. Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514&t=672s Medicare for those who want it: more expensive than present disfunctional system. . . Buttieggie wrong again.
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  2272. The only real democracy on earth is Switzerland. A real democracy can only really work if there are no lies allowed in the media. Our mass media is almost nothing but lies.
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  2273.  @christinearmington  What's your point?
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  2274. I posted my current positions in EV on your channel and it promptly disappeared. ???
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  2275.  Jan Jansen  I have nothing against it. My question: if you are able to actually read what I wrote, is, I wonder if Chomsky would approve. Actually this is not the only reason that TYT s my progressive show of last resort. The biggest reason is that their style of continual whining is so cacophonous.
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  2276.  Jan Jansen  Come on, they are not even close to the only ones who "speak the truth" Try Democracy Now, The Real News Network, Jimmy Dore, The Hill, Rising, Michael Moore Rumble, The Damage Report, Secular Talk, Humanist Report, Useful Idiots, The Grey Zone, Kim Iverson, Status Coup, The Progressive Voice, Bill Maher, Redacted Tonight, Moment of Clarity, The Rational National, Hard Lense, The Empire Report, and on and on, and all of them manage to tell the truth without the continual whining tone. You can search any of the terms I have listed an you will find progressive Current Event Vids.
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  2277. If you think being a Nazi and being Jewish are mutually exclusive you haven't been following the aggression of the Israeli settlements. This is not to say their are real Nazis in Ukraine, that is certainly debatable, just pointing out that the puddin' headed sound bites of the news media are incorrect and just stupid. Remember the Liberty!
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  2278. The chances that the masses will shed their delusions or even have any interest in doing so are slim. They consider their delusions to be what makes life worth living, and who is to say they are wrong in their cases? Awakening to the sublime impossibly energetic beauty of it all, is not something that you can just decide to do then do. It is not a conceptual construct but something that must be pursued despite all the conceptual constructs about it. It is a ignition of an epigenetic metabolic process that lies in wait for the proper stimulation to arise and energize an enhanced form of consciousness that lies at the inception of the very core of religion ideation (all of which is degenerated, deviated from, and can be an actual impediment to coming in touch with it.)
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  2279. If you haven't figured out that using Facebook is like smashing your head against a wall in all this time, if you haven't noticed the incredibly invasive inference engines they use, if you don't realize that their logarithms can tell what you will probably do and think and respond to, in all these years you haven't figured out that using facebook is contributing to your own demise by providing them the free content that they use to sell their ads and fuck you over, when are you gonna wake the fuck up and stop using face book. Just erase it. You will fell better in a few days. Facebook is for assholes -- no exceptions. You use it: you are an asshole.
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  2280.  @Innerspace100  Probably Tump's, but apparently you don't have to pull anything out of Trump's ass, it falls out all the time, no matter where he is. And people close to him just have to deal with the smell. But since most of them had covid, or at least covid of the brain, they can't smell it anyhow.
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  2281. The idea of downloading one's identity is totally rediculous, and could only be entertained for more than a microsecond by anyone with even an elementary understanding of how the identity arises out of the metabolic substrate out of which conscious activity arises. When computers have hormones which are secreted by every part of your body, and a microbiome that regulates your psychology more then the average person is aware of then we will talk.
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  2282. It is so simply really -- every Tesla that is produced is already sold.
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  2283. Bernie for prez, Tulsi sec of defense, Warren sec of treasury, Yang sec of state, and Jimmy Dore for vice prez to make sure no right-wingnut kills Bernie.
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  2284. Another religious nut.
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  2285.  @kadmow  Fortunately most ev batteries are over 90% recyclable.
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  2286. The way the s2k market is going, that installation will cost you more than the money and hours you spent on the charger, if you ever want to sell it. So you should factor that added depreciation into your expenses.
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  2287. No doubt it is a cool design, the body work anyhow, but are you sure you want a car with the motors in the wheels? If you answer is yes -- really? Do you realize the repercussions of that design decision? And. . . three wheels, there will be no way to avoid pot holes except driving entirely around them. Might be OK in Australia IF you stay on really really smooth roads. There is, you know, a good reason why the primary method of improving the handling characteristic of a car, or bike, is to reduce un-sprung weight. This design has the motors in the freaking wheels! What do you think that does to un-sprung weight. I would buy one except for that one huge design flaw. Move the motors out of the wheels and I would buy one today -- or when available, but not like that. You call it a "racecar" are you kidding? This is the furthest thing you could get from a race car. There are no race cars with the motors in the wheels. For good reason.
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  2288. We need people to be exposed here. Individuals held responsible for this forever, to be banished from our country leaving all wealth behind. USA has become ruled by thieves because the masses have become a bunch of facebook twitter pussies. And have traded their golden destiny for the illusions of the one percent and their digital distractions. We need the names of specific individuals. Who are the operators who pulled this one?
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  2289. TEslas driven with FSD on are the safest cars on the road with far fewer accidents than any other category of vehicle per thousand. Those are the facts look them up. And Teslas cars are the safest in a collision.
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  2290. Interesting guess that 1:41 "Russia has several million more armored vehicles that they can throw into this". I guess that is counting wheel barrels, because the people over at Covert Cabal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHUK6zkbpc&t=3s who actually bothered to count them, claim that Russia has 3911 tanks left that are able to be repaired and brought into service.
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  2291. Stupid.
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  2292. Good info. Just about the reasons that determined my investments in TSMC, ASML, Nvida, and REMX. Of which NVDA has killed like clockwork, and REMX has far outpaced my expectations.
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  2293.  @mikel4879  Silly boy, just buy an old Miata, if you actually love to drive. Even Jay Leno introduced his Miata on his garage show by saying, "This is all you really need. . . ." So get a real divers car, an old Miata, more fun to drive than a vette or Mustang and cheap to buy and run. I mean if you can't afford a used Miata, you should consider immigrating to the west or something. If you don't like Miatas you're not really a driver or car guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1qgtCt1jG0
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  2294. Award for stupid comment of the day. Congrats.
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  2295. Drake Landing Alberta Canada gets 100% of it's home heating from solar. How come they can do it with snow and crap weather and you can't in the UK?
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  2296.  @SagelySquirrel I was referring to the community featured in this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqHYNE2QwE
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  2297.  @MNTrader2012  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVqHYNE2QwE&t=135s
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  2298. This is not news. Any news show that reports on these royals is run by total assholes. Time to grow the fuck up and get over the total bullshit that royals are. Just because some of their ancestors cut the heads off of and tore the guts out of some of your ancestors does not distinguish them in anyway that a sane person would respect. Grow the fuck up.
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  2299. Wrong: sooner or later we tech ourselves into a starfaring civilization with unlimited resources and a pollution free earth: or global warming destroys civilization and your grandchildren are forced to eat their babies for a few more weeks of life.
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  2300.  @SuperTonyony  Spoken like a know-nothing ludite. Pay attention to SpaceX. You will probably see a colony on Mars within your lifetime. If you are going to use a derogatory euphemism such as "sport" the way you wrote it is incorrect, and make no sense if you understand written English. You should have written, ". . . aspirations -- sport." Apparently your view of the future is as inept as your grammar.
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  2301.  @johnhanson4776  In your almighty opinion that may be the case. In reality your judgement means diddly squat.
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  2302. When you say something that West Virginia is doing is stupid, it doesn't really differentiate it from most other things that take place their.
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  2303. The truth about climate change! The truth about climate change is that greenhouse gases are the main cause of global warming. The truth about greenhouse gases is that 87% of the greenhouse gas is produced by animal agriculture. The truth about fighting for the future of civilization is that it is a far more significant act to stop buying and using the products of animal agriculture than it is to march and bitch about any of the many different processes that in total, combined, only account for 13% of the greenhouse gases that humans produce. The truth about humans is that they would rather bitch and moan or ignore the situation until the choice is not whether one should adjust their rapacious lifestyle to have a diet that is plant based, but rather whether or not their grandchildren should eat their babies in order to live a little longer. The fact that it is healthier to eat a nutritionally dense plant based diet than any other kind, is, along with saving advanced human civilization, also of some benefit. The truth about ignorance, is that the new modern form of ignorance, such as that proudly exhibited by the Trump cultists, is not the lack of facts, but rather total immunity to them. The truth about the chances of avoiding a major disruption of all human civilization is about the same as it is for the people who are too stupid to realize how dumb they are to suddenly become ashamed of their ignorance instead of being proud of it. . . . Or about the same chance as someone who is addicted to meat and dairy coming to understand that what is killing them is also destroying the very fabric that makes the environment habitable by humans. So much easier to belief the disinformation diffused by the meat and dairy industries, who have taken a page from the tobacco handbook -- one only needs to instill doubt about real scientific data by introducing biased lies posing as science, brought to you by the same evil bastards who fought in the courts and arena of public opinion championing tobacco. Don't point your fingers at the pollution caused by ICE automobiles, or jets, or electric generators running on coal or oil, these causes are important, yes, but diversionary. Look in the mirror when you sit down to eat, if you are eating meat or dairy products, then you are personally advancing the degradation of the world climate, and your concerns about climate change, if you have any, are essentially hypocrisy.
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  2304.  @Straydingo  Well nobody said that ignorance cannot be quite soothing in a somnambulistic kind of way. The fact that you are proud of your ignorance puts you right in the center of the bell curve of stupid, and complete immunity to facts. Not only is it scientific fact that you are contributing to the degradation of climate but you are eating crap that has been designated a class 1 carcinogen by those pesky scientists. So sorry that reality is not congruent with your habitual stupor and kneejerk reactionary mode of dealing with proven issues that you don't like. But all that doesn't matter: nobody is going to tell you what to do -- aye? As Gurdjieff said. "Even God himself has no defense against stupid." Thanks for sharing your feelings -- they reflect an attitude that is common as dirt and wildly inane.
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  2305. I know most who watch DN will not see it this way, but this migrant issue is a losing issue for the Democrats. The voters who decided the last election do not give a damn about this. In fact they mostly wish the conditions would be worse in order to dissuade them from coming. You must understand that, and therefore your are working for four more years of Trump.
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  2306. Now we know for sure that the bad actors who incited the riots were right-wing fifth columnists. This is the excuse this fasist pig has been waiting for. Maximum conman. Go hug a flag you prick. You front man for the misanthropic power elite.
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  2307.  @jeffbrooks3832  Well, being as he is the only man with the resources needed for the job, who is actively striving to insure the survival of humanity in the event of another extinction level global catastrophe, he is the most important man in the world. If you consider the continued existence of the human species important.
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  2308.  @jamied8678  Like I said, it all comes back to the cheap plastic toys and Halloween masks.
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  2309. And who else has a supermodel who does elf for a girlfriend?
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  2310. Dude I am way retired, and counting on my Tesla stock to buy my cybertruck with it's profits, which it now can.
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  2311. ads
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  2312. Comment part 1 Sheltered as I am, and as much a fool as I allow myself to be on a daily basis: I will now proceed my pouring from the empty into the void by giving a brief outline of how an optimal human government should be arranged. In fact, one objective look at the so-called political systems, and their underpinning, that populate our planet should inform the observer that what is happening is just window dressing on barbarism, it's just a theater of the mind, a velvet glove on an iron fist. I don't know of any system of government or rule that rises above the idiotic, or so it would seem, if the object of the system is to optimize, as much as is possible, all honorable aspects of human existence, and to curtail those commonly deemed as undesirable, the present systems of governance found on earth are archaic trash: just an excuse for the same old kleptocratic autocompulsive psychopaths, to further inflate their already vein-glorious mini-minds in the vacuous reflections of the sycophants that surround and enable their insanity because of their own highly deviated and corrupted survival impulse. They wish they were a real boy, but despite the world of suffering they create by trying to fill their truly vacuous lives with babbles of all types, real life eludes them, and always will. Even ole' Socrates knew that a person that seeks power should never be trusted with it. Human political culture is a joke. An eighth grade class could come up with a better system than the battered whore the banksters and one percent -- have afforded the world. It's a joke, a sin, and a wasted opportunity to evolve our culture into one that would nurture the greatness that humanity could be. But we ain't great, and we never have been, though for sure, an individual here and there, now and then has been -- great that is. Though to tell you the truth Alexander wasn't, and neither was his teacher Aristotle. Two utter failures that the world has adored for over two millennia. So wad ya gonna due -- aye? Real democracy is something usually only found in a direct democracy. Representational Democracy, Republics, Constitutional Republic, etc, are a device used to lead the capite censi to believe that they live in a participatory democracy while allowing the plutocrats to stay in control of the things that matter to them. A few prefectures in Switzerland have a direct democracy, or if you allow, a REAL democracy, but as far as I am aware, they are the only such democracy in the world today and in all of history. Personally I would prefer a sort of democratic neoconfusian techno-meritocracy, wherein people would not vote for candidates, but for the tests and various VR simulated scenarios submitted for consideration by experts in testing of psychological fitness and problem solving abilities that would be appropriate for the office being sought. Tests that would be open to all citizens at all times in order to challenge those who held various government offices, and replace them if they scored higher than the current occupant.
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  2313. This is the first comment in the hundreds I've read that even hints at the coming paradigm shift that is just around the decades corner. AI, robotic and genetic breakthroughs will make all this fretting and calculation of the economy's destiny using kitchen table math seem like the hallucinations of dimwitted children.
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  2314. Bill Maher -- blood thirsty animal rights vegan pothead.
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  2315. Worst eyeglasses ever.
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  2316. What a bunch of regurgitated FUD. Had me lol all through this piece of totally spun and slanted muck racking. You got to be young and dumb to believe this crap.
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  2317. The only ships the Danes are interested in stopping is the ones with Tesla EVs on them. Because the unions in Sweden are like the mafia in the USA -- Just like the unions in the USA. All because twelve Tesla workers out of hundreds want a union. The rest want to own a part of it through the employee stock program which has produced more employee millionaires than any other equivalent program.
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  2318. I am mean when the right wing-nuts start baiting progressives. They are stupid and ingnorant and almost never respond further. Step right up regressive fucks and I will rip you a new one.
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  2319. He wishes he could get it up for anything.
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  2320. There is not enough time in the day to correct the disinformation and crackpot opinions presented in this report.
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  2321. How could this possibly come "as a complete shock to the United States"? Putin has been bragging about Russia's new generation of terror weapons for years. Submarine atonomous drones that contain huge hydrogen bombs that can deploy themselves for years in advance and detonate underwater off shore of the USA, to generate a tusnami hundreds of meters high that would crash into various seaboard cities, hypersonic glide vehicles with unlimited range that can change course infinitly at twenty times the speed of sound: for which the USA and NATO have no defense, even on the horizon. Further he has murdered his political foes without the slightest compunction. He has secreted away via Panamaian lawyers, dummy corporations in the names of his friends and clients, possibly more wealth, than Elon Musk's total wealth. Money that he stole through his governmental influence. This is only a compete shock to the Americans who have no interest at all in geopolitical strategy but are only interested in social signalling and other imbecilic issues that probably got much of their impetus when Trump normalized stupid wing extremism, and by the Russian government workers who work tirelessly to bend social media to further polarize American views.
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  2322. Tell me, "When is now?" and I'll tell you "What now is." There is no time exclusive of space, nor space divorced from time, except in the reification of an abstraction so common it goes unnoticed. No big deal? . . . I know.
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  2323. Over half of European electricity is now generated by nuclear and green sources and soon it will be almost total.
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  2324.  @bengom68  No doubt, one of many places that profit from that sort of thing. Nevertheless it is still the only democracy that I am aware of. As far as I know the USA has the most mercenaries these days. I think you are talking about the middle ages and the Swiss Guard at the Vatican? I think that the UK and offshore banks are the biggest launderers of the criminal billions that our idiotic drug laws put in the hands of savages in Mexico and elsewhere.
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  2325. The end of German as an ethnicity is just a ridiculous statement. In the USA alone Seventeen percent of the population is ethnically German (still the largest ethnicity). And there are half a million Mennonites, and 360,000 Amish (whose population is increasing rapidly with an average of seven children per household.) Yes the famous Pennsylvania Dutch are Germans.
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  2326.  @YourHineyness  That is easy to believe since there are only about 16 million Jews in the entire world. Though it seems like there are more, especially if you go by noble prizes, and general media attention, and show biz. Very talented neurotic people. Many wise old ones if you discount the religious ones.
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  2327. Finally a minute mention of the Mercer families infernal meddling with the minds of the troglodyte right wing trumtards. More than any other individual Mercer is responsible for what happened and what he is trying to make sure still does happen.
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  2328.  Delling Conley  If you are either a true believer left or right you are an idiot.
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  2329.  @maxgrozema1093  There is no way that Conley understood your reply.
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  2330.  Delling Conley  No doubt you are a legend in your own mind. And batshit delusional.
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  2331. Germans have the quirky ability to remain self-righteous, while cheating and attacking you. I know this, I am one.
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  2332. Animal agriculture is responsible for 89% of green house gases. All other industries combined make up 11% of the gases causing climate change. Drive an EV but much more importantly eat a plant based diet. IF you care about climate what you choose to eat is much more important than the car you drive.
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  2333.  @caydenthompson126  IF you think there is some kind of parity between FSD and geofenced programmed vehicles you know nothing.
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  2334.  @georgebrantley776  .00001%
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  2335.  @Picklemedia  You are quite correct, many people did not vote for Trump they voted against Hillary. My own father, a 93 year old WW2 vet (no longer with us) would have voted for Bernie but ended up voting for Trump. One has to question the entire process when the choice that is given to the American people is the choice between two of the most despised people in the country. I would have voted for Tulsi and may still vote for her because I do not believe in voting for the lesser of two evils. Why shoud we have to endure any evil as a choice? And that is the only choice that the people who really control things are ever going to give you. As Chris Hedges says, "It is impossible to vote against Goldman Sachs in the USA." And he is quite correct. Both Trump and Biden are owned by the real rulers of the USA. Koch, Investment Bankers, Hedge Fund managersm, Robert Mercer and the host of psychotic kleptocrats that own the politicians they put in office, and who quickly co-opt anyone who gets into office and speaks for the average Joe.
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  2336.  @Picklemedia  Did they? I'm not sure about that, and I don't consider it important enough to research, and I am certainly not going to accept your belief as a fact until proven. Long and short of it is, I don't give a fuck about Hillary and if I never hear or read her name again I couldn't care less. As for Democracy now not being perfect. Most discerning people realize that DN has an adjenda, a preference, a bias, it's just far more of a human preference than the corporate controlled world-view that you can get on most cable stations, but its hardly more objective. They are selling themselves mostly to knee-jerk liberal types who suffer from guilt over actions that they had nothing to do with, and think that anyone who doesn't go along with the PC Orwellian subsumtion of the language by the continual use of PC nomenclature is a fascist. Politics in the present USA is just theater, just a distraction so people don't see what is actually going on (until its too late). The present situation in the USA was brought about by the power-elite acting in thier own psychotic best-interest and changing one law after another so they could legalize their former and intended crimes. We have become a corrupt nation, and those who many people believe are upstanding are often the most corrupt. But if someone keeps carrying on about Hillary on DN preople will not take them serously, other than to think they are seriously disturbed.
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  2337.  @jameslaupan6499  Hey James: I hear you loud and clear bro. When someone responds with "what about . . . " You know they are really incapable of examining the subject at hand and are only intrested in establishing a hormonal dicotomy, though they are hardly aware of that fact themselves. It's like a right-wingnut bringing up George Soros as the bogeyman, and having no idea that George more than any one person was responsible for the downfall of totalitarian regimes posing as communism in eastern Europe a while back.
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  2338.  PJ R  So true.
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  2339. Get real, the fault squarely lies with the failure of the young voters who now out number the old ones, to get off their phones and video games and vote.
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  2340.  @JadeDelphi  Well tell your local shamans to be more careful when they are boiling bear pee. Just kidding I love CA and miss Santa Cruz every day I have been away.
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  2341. Interesting point about Facebook. I would never use Facebook. Though I had when it first started. When I saw the incredible intrusiveness of their inference engines I stopped cold and advised all my real friends to do the same. That was many years ago. If you are on Facebook it is because you don't understand what's going on.
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  2342. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq82CKp_ToM
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  2343.  @gammaraygem  Not as bizarre as the fact that we live in a country of 300 million souls and are give the pseudo choice between Bidden and Trump, one a career politician who lies all the time and the other a total asshole who lies faster than he can talk, which is no mean feat.
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  2344.  @restonthewind  Good point. Apparently not just whores but investor scams and fake comments also get a by.
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  2345. My portfolio has done so much better since I started entirely ignoring sources like CNBC and Bloomburg. Really a lot better.
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  2346.  @Vanguard1232  Perfect description of Trump, even if it is from a work of fantasy fiction.
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  2347. The people stood around and pleaded with the officers not to kill him. Now we know that that does not work (this is sarcasm). A few dozen ordinary people could have put an end to this and prevented a murder, but I guess none of them had any real concern because it wasn't happening to them. Cowards. This is why we need an armed citizenry. If every one of those cops had been shot or pummeled it would be a better world today.
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  2348. The truth is that twice as many people were murdered by police last year than were listed in the official stats. The truth is that these cops are just cowards, like the cop who shot an old man in a wheelchair in the back nine times in AZ in NOv. while the guy was trying to wheel himself away. He had a pocket knife so, the cop got lucky and got to murder someone with immunity. Poor cop was suspended from the force. Where is the outrage? IF the guy had been black there would be protests all over the country. But he was just an old white longhaired cripple. He had to die.
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  2349.  @middleagedbaldguy6774  Good, then you will not be so put out when Trump rolls the economy into a ditch.
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  2350. A meme stock with the largest factory in the USA, the number one selling car in California, and Europe, the number one selling EV that is a real car in China, an EV that outsells the German EVs in Germany. The car with the highest rate of owner satisfaction, a car that won the Car and Driver best Car of the Car of the year awards for the last seventy years. Some meme. Wake up before you miss the boat.
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  2351. Taliban Vs Isis is what the people want.
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  2352. smells like corporate news --- What are the facts about the arrest for "building a functional assault rifle"? You told us nothing. Was it a fully automatic firearm they built? If not they are not in violation of any federal firearms law I am aware of. At least pretend that you attempt to be competent and not just a co-opted stuffed suit.
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  2353. You really don't have to prove you are an imbecile. If you support Trump we already know that.
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  2354. Tulsi will go where Bernie, or any front runner cannot go. She would make a perfect VP, for many reason. People would really hesitate to shoot Bernie if Tulsi would take over as pres.
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  2355. You miss the evil genius of it: this kid showed initiative, and was charitable, and is a microcosm of the right-wing urge to stop all government funding of programs like food stamps, and ssi, and everything they can, and have the churches and the rich give what they want to whom they want under the conditions they want. Which would be a paltry amount insufficient to make any difference to all but a few chosen recipients who had better damn well be snivelingly grateful. The reality is this: the higher the total worth of an individual the less a percentage of it they give to charity.
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  2356. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  2357. Half of Europe's electricity is now produced by wind and solar.
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  2358. Being able to use your car for an entertainment center while it drives itself would be great for a lot of people (I'm not one of them, I enjoy driving a totally analogue roadster because of how much fun it is, for less thant the price of a FSD option. Maybe I will get a cypertruck for the winter, but will still drive it myself) What good is FSD if you have to pay attention to the road anyway? Seems boring to me.
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  2359. ..."worked on the principle of Commerce, Education, and civilisation.". . . That is the rationalization. You done drunk the koolaid. Hundreds of thousands of machine gunned natives with spears in their hand would tend to disagree with that outlook. Then again perhaps you mean something different form civilization by "civilisation"?
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  2360. 19:33 "Russia has been frantically fortifying it's facilities for fortnights" -- Alliteration plus anachronistic usage, and inappropriate change in diction level, must be a former English major.
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  2361.  @user-pz6mc2oj3f  How dare you speak about the first emperor of the solar system like that? Your body will be reduced to protein slime in the martian refuse digestors and used to glue tanstemporal flux capacitors onto omnibots. And you deserve it.
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  2362. Why were the American 777 howitzers delivered to Ukraine without the parts necessary to use the rocket propelled smart shells, the excalibur, which could out distance the Russian artillery? One royal F-up after another. But then, you probably don't know about that, or have any idea what I am going on about. Too little, to late, a day late and a dollar short as usual. It's almost like they are purposely prolonging the conflict. You gave the howitzers, great, but without the ability to use the full potential it has to use the rocket propelled guided smart shells. Potentially the most significant weapon in this artillery slug fest. FUBAR
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  2363. Quite true. If it were a democracy this would be Trump's first term. Actually there are no true democracies on this planet and probably outside of isolated ancient tribal groupings like some of the Germanic tribes, and others, there never has been a national democracy anywhere at any time. Unless you consider somewhere like classical Athens, were only mature, male, land owners, who were citizens could vote, to be one..
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  2364.  @penniroyal4398  That's what the modified Pledge of Allegiance is. The original, the one I had to pledge every morning in grade school had no mention of "under God" it went right from One Nation to indivisible.
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  2365. I am so sick of people being proud to be stupid.
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  2366. Yep and the fool is telling his dupes that Bidden is making the USA a lauging stock when as usual the truth is 180 from any crap that proceeds form his smelly mouth.
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  2367. Of course Trump minced his words, but his meaning was clear.
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  2368. See my OP about why this will not be the case.
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  2369. In the future car networked together will be sketchy if it happens at all among different brands, but all cars networked to the traffic control signals will happen and will be a giant step in efficiency and safety. No more sitting at red lights with no opposing traffic, just cruising through a city at night without stopping at all, entire lanes of highway that would switch directions as congestion dictated. This is the vast improvement that will come. And billions of dollars will be saved both in energy used, the collisions that don't happen, reduced wear and tear on parts, and vast savings in time.
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  2370.  @peterbaker3429  These are not "Vengeance weapons", they are defensive weapons to save innocent Ukrainians from the child raping, grandma murdering, drugged up Russian imperialist scumbags.
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  2371.  @1ndragunawan  Times seven.
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  2372.  @benjaminsmith2287  If your decisions are made on whats under the sheet metal instead of whether or not you like the shape of the sheet metal -- Tesla has no competition in the USA or anywhere else -- IF your decisions are based on functional engineering and aerodynamics. If they are based on other factors like the emotional appeal of a certain style, there are the Fords, the Hyundais, the Lucid, the Polestar, the GM trucks and car, the Nissan, the Toyota, the mini, the Audis, the BMWs, the Mercedes, the Pinafarina, the Porsches, the VWs, and the Rimac. And probably some others that I couldn't think of.
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  2373.  @feynmanschwingere_mc2270  Twisted and spun narrative that cannot see the forest for the bark. Here is all you really need to know. Which borders have people fleeing and which borders have people risking everything to get in. Wait don't tell me: both cases are the fault of the imperialistic USA -- in your opinion. What a crock of juvenile butt hurt. I bet you think that doctors assign a persons sex at birth, and that all Native Americans were peace loving environmentalists before Columbus.
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  2374.  @feynmanschwingere_mc2270  I see you have a sense of humor, but ultimately no sense of sense. FYI: America's most intense growth rate had more to do with the fact that almost all other means of production had been demolished in WW2 than the tax rate. So the USA was producing about half of all manufactured goods worldwide. Although I personally would like to see a return to the tax rates of the Eisenhower era, the current legalized corruption of campaign finance laws will never allow anything but more of the present dynamic and perhaps an even more weighted version of it. The American middle class was mostly the result of the GI bill post WW2. Communism and Fascism are about mutually evil in effect if not theory, though communism clearly has the lead in murders of its own citizens. Climate change is a fact, whether or not it is ultimately a positive or negative has yet to be known: we are overdue for another ice age. Which would render all our considerations moot forever. Well my fore-bearers fought for the north and were part of the underground railroad in PA, and fought in the Revolutionary war, but in America, that actually counts for nothing, and any immigrate is as American as I am. You do know that by far most of the slaves brought to America went to Brazil and Cuba, and that only five percent of southerners actually had any slaves. You do know that though it is rarely brought up by left wing puddin' heads, there were more African slaves exported into the middle east than the Americas, and that almost everyone alive is the descendant of slaves, as opposed to King Arthur and Cleopatra. I am still waiting for my reparations from the Catholic Church for enslaving some of my ancestors during Rome. Of course there is a big difference between being worked to death in a Roman lead mine and being worked in a cotton field. For two centuries Islamic pirates raided every coastal town in Europe for slaves, maybe the Saudis should pay reparations for the millions of people worked to death in the name of Islam, because white slaves were so cheap in the north African slave markets that it often did not make economic sense to even feed them enough to survive. IQ is associated with race: Asians and Jews are the most intelligent, although the concept of race is a total illusion. There are about seven main human genetic variants and five of them appear only in Africa. Races of man are most like breeds of dog, not actual subspecies, just various characteristics brought about by variying rates of inbreeding or line-breeding because of geography and social factors. But along these lines, I bet that you would deny the different levels of testosterone in various "racial" groups and its effect on a propensity to violent behavior. As a survivor of a murderous attack by a black mob against anyone who was white in 1968, and further attacked at a black power rally in 69' which I attended with a black friend in support, I have no illusions about the capacity of all groups to revert to mindless violence, Nazis or not. OH yeah, I am neither a believer nor an atheist nor a Agnostic, I think the question of is there a god is wrong. About your final comment: you flatter yourself, how pedestrian. You gun is a pop gun son.
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  2375. Good question. It obviously has not been answered or even addressed in the replies. Their must be a difference if this tech has a new patent, yet it was not explained or noted. One difference is that the inventor of this method said it lends itself to scaling up, while apparently Tesla is currently attempting to scale up it's dry method. However there could be many differences in methodology of preparing the electorde compound and depositing it or just minor differences -- none of that has been addressed here.
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  2376. Please inform me of these non-muclear weapons of nuclear strength. The practical maximum yield-to-weight ratio for fusion weapons (thermonuclear weapons) has been estimated to six megatons of TNT per metric ton of bomb mass (25 TJ/kg). Yields of 5.2 megatons/ton and higher have been reported for large weapons constructed for single-warhead use in the early 1960s. Since then, the smaller warheads needed to achieve the increased net damage efficiency (bomb damage/bomb mass) of multiple warhead systems have resulted in decreases in the yield/mass ratio for single modern warheads.
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  2377.  @johnwattdotca  True, but that's not what you said. People can certainly immediatly occupy the rubble left after conventional bombardment, and they can even eventually reoccupy cities that have been incinerated by nuclear bombs as Japan clearly demonstrates. We even have nuclear devices that will just kill the people and other animals and leave the structures intact. But we certainly do not have conventional weapons that mimic the power of even low to middling power thermonuclear devices. The devices used on Japan were low powered compared to today's nukes, even the mother of all bombs pales in comparison. Not that it really matters, nobody is going to use nukes other than some renegade nonstate org. who overruns a nuclear arms supply. Even the psychopaths who run the world and keep us divided are not that stupid.
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  2378.  @LividImp  Please -- . . . don't you know that Trump has made it possible for people to be proud to be stupid? Reality? Fox is bad enough, but most real dead-enders like the hard-core nonsense. Were as Fox viewers where shown to know less about what is really happening than people with no interest in the news at all, and they are almost normal compared to News Max and One America -- where the real hopeless clowns get their fantasies stoked.
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  2379. How many times has a comment made on a social media venue changed someone's political opinion? -- None. . . zero, zip, nadda. Don't you agree? My point exactly.
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  2380. I think Liz would make a great head of the Security and Exchange Commission. Tulsi would make a great Sec of Defense and Bernie would make the greatest pres since the CIA destroyed Jimmy because he downsized them and they went to work for the RNC and destroyed the American economy to put Reagan in. Of course we will need to put someone in as vice president that will dissuade the right-wing nuts from assassinating Bernie. I propose Jimmy Dore for vice pres to make sure that Bernie is not murdered by the fascist right.
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  2381. This jerk has major investments in lidar. That's the beginning and end of this nonsense.
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  2382. Yes the exploitation of people with weaker armies or no armies, an their resources is as old as man himself. If you want to read about some real exploitation read some ancient history, like maybe about the Assyrian empire or really any group that became dominant. It's a human failing not tied to any race or group, but to the power-elite and those grasping for power and wealth throughout all history, peoples, and nations. That's the real truth about these fragmented and partisan narratives. Given the opertunity and capacity all people give rise to such exploitation. And if they didn't it's because they for one reason or another lacked the possibility.
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  2383. A winning lottery ticket will do you zero good on the cybertruck. Get in line.
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  2384.  @pixelty  Yep you are right, been pretty much detailed I suppose, in the progressive blogs and videos, even on Fox actually .
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  2385. This is truly a meaningless report that tells your viewers nothing. Fentenyl is smuggled into the USA by the billionaire Mexican cartels. Criminal billionares that have been entirely created by the insipid and dimwitted drug policies of the USA. Fentinyl is produced in China. It is much more profitable and safer for the cartels to simply import fentenyl form China than to grow poppies for heroin production. The goal of American drug policies is obviously not to end the drug problem we have, but to sustain it by enforcing policies that have been proven over and over to not work, other than working to create the worlds first class of criminal billionaires. This entire problem has been created and is now maintained by these US policies. The problem is easily solved, the solution has been proven in both Portugal and Switzerland.
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  2386. I have been pretty hard on Joe on his site, but i really like him. It's just his antivegan bull that sucks. And the fact that he thinks hunting for your own meat is a viable option for earth and people's health. Other than that: the people who call him right-wing are wrong. He has given assholes of divers opinions a platform. And some of the best damn guests to be found anywhere -- especially scientists and such. The people roasting Joe are insipid assholeS and knee jerk liberal pc IGNORAMUSES.
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  2387. I agree viking, the leaders, especially politicians are the problem. The scum rises to the top, in the popularity farce of politics, in an age that loves scumbags.
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  2388.  @jennetal.984  Not funny "ha ha" but funny.
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  2389.  @elrichvolshebnik  🤩
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  2390. The USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narratives that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues. You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  2391.  @charlesmoss8119  And where does the coal come from? Australia perhaps?
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  2392.  @overlord4404  The Ukranians have overcome Russian jamming by using the SpaceX starlink system donated by Elon Musk, so their is a way around the jamming.
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  2393.  @phyarth8082  All I can say is someone is severely lacking in a sense of proportions, perspective, and priorities, and since I have lived there most of my life I think it not be me.
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  2394. I keep thinking that unfortunately the days of deep discounts may be coming to an end. I hope not. Ideally Tesla would plummet down to five hundred for a month or two. That's what I would like best.
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  2395. Using a labyrinth of shell corporations and shill owners, Putin and other Russian state security insiders hold major positions in US and other western defense industry stocks. Think about that for a moment or two.
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  2396. In the top 25 list that you show: if you add up all the VW EVs it comes to about 125,000 units. That is almost twice what the model Y sells, and the m3 is not even on the list. Very surprising to me.
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  2397. Bernie may be the exception to this. Actually such promises are like farts in a jacuzzi.
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  2398. Funny how whenever I give the real historical facts surrounding such conversations Democracy Now deletes my comment. Why are you so opposed to the truth? Could it be because you have some political incentive to disseminate the contrived revisionist view about the so called native Americans as you have been doing all along. Learn some real history not the romantic fantasy propagated by Hollywood that taps into the desire of all humans to lead a more authentic existence and redirects it into lies so out of line with reality that you rival Trump's pathology in this regard.
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  2399.  @presidentelect_porklachopp1350  You have found? Where? In your double blind epidemiological study? More likely you found it up your ass.
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  2400.  @presidentelect_porklachopp1350  Good try: trying to change the subject from something that actually happened, and the documented fact that Donald Lame Duck and his antiDaddy's attitude was that anyone who served is a loser and an idiot. Someone who thinks that John McCain (who could have left his BIA because his dad was an admiral) but stayed in prison out of loyalty was a loser. Typical Trumptard diversion and disinformation. It's ether a What-aboutism with you guys or some irrelvant fantasy like yours. And being of such a high intelligence that you cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality you think you have proven something. The only thing you have proven is that your are too stupid to realize how dumb you are.
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  2401.  @MatthewDouglas805  Sounds right.
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  2402.  @pranays  Also the price of oil took a nose dive and the Venezuelian economy imploded.
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  2403. Could. . . officially we are still in a transient warm period in an Ice Age.
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  2404. Badly?
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  2405. Some "people" are so concerned about the robust build of the CT being a threat to other autos. I guess they haven't noticed the robust build of hundreds of thousands of Mack Trucks on the road. Get hit by a Mack, or any strongly build truck or semi, loaded with fill or coal, doing the typical 65mph on a two lane blacktop and suddenly the hardy CT is a pussy cat in comparison to what it would do to your Toyota or F150, and your body. Your crush zones and airbags ain't gonna do diddly-squat when your entire vehicle is squashed like it's been in a garbage compactor, or just ripped to pieces. I guess we should get rid of all trucks and busses and heavy equipment transport? . . . imbeciles.
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  2406. Or they could just catapult large chunks of the moon at earth and forego the expense of lifting tungsten like in the novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
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  2407. The obvious solution to a quick depletion of reserve armor and the exceedingly long lead-time to bring meaningful production on-line is to entice Tesla to reorganize the manufacturing kinetics and logistics: now. Then we will finally get the hover-tanks we have been promised since Civilization 2 broke.
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  2408. You are apparently correct. They could kill with price reductions if they wanted to. In the future they will even have more hammer at their command.
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  2409.  Speedy Bohlke  Bernie has changed his mind about many things since he was in his twenties, as should everyone with a brain that hasn't atrophied. Show me a reference where he currently advocates for the take over of private industry. You can't. You may not be a fool, I don't know, but you are certainly a partisan and totally biased in this regard. And like I said you are only concerned with superficial labels.
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  2410.  @toomuch8232  Really? I don't advocate the state ownership of the means of production. But you are certainly a superficial imbecile that thinks labels are a precise reflection of reality.
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  2411.  @toomuch8232  Ummm. . . . I just realized your comment may be irony. Irony does not play well in text messaging. So on the one hand if it is an ironic statement -- bravo -- you prove my point. On the other hand if it is serious, well you have my response. I suggest appending an "irony warning" or "sarcasm" warning" to such replies.
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  2412.  Speedy Bohlke  You mistake me for someone who is interested in your opinions. Yale study says medicare for all will save over 450 billion dollars a year and save 65,000 lives. Cost overhead for present system is 12.5%. Cost overhead for present medicare system is 2.5%. Now let's see if liars can actually figure. . . .
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  2413.  @toomuch8232  Is this the kind of bullshit that passes for argument in your little brain? I have voted since Johnson -- kiddie.
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  2414.  @toomuch8232  I have learned to differentiate between bullshit and reality which apparently you have not. You don't know the difference between communism, socialism, and the form of capitalism known as democratic socialism. All you seem to have learned is the brainwashing that the power-elite spoon feeds fools 24/7. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries are capitalist. Fact: Neither Venezuela, nor Cuba is a social democracy. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have, better and less expensive medical care than we do -- unless you are very wealthy and even then in many cases they are superior. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have free or very inexpensive higher education. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have financial safety nets and inexpensive or free childcare, and maternity leaves for both parents. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have paid vacations that are usually about five weeks a year. Fact: The citizens of democratic socialist countries are happier than Americans on average. Fact: And this one should just make you slap your face if you have a brain in your head: All the democratic socialist countries have higher social mobility than the USA. That mean that if you are born into the lower financial class you have a better chance of ending up rich in Denmark then you do in the USA. So it seem that you are the one who has learned nothing in all your years. I, on the other hand started out as a near fascist libertarian/republican, but learned the truth about the power-elite who rule our country through deceit and disinformation, and when that doesn't work, through paid off politicians and men with guns. You can easily verify all the facts yourself, if you even have the smarts to actually tell truth from right-wingnut propaganda. Which I highly suspect you don't and will rather respond with nothing but more meaningless bullshit.
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  2415. This video may be of interest to some of us. I hope she is correct. Why Warren and the Superdelegates can’t rig the election https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACn94wTAZJ4
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  2416. This can be traced back to the most stupid national decision of all modern times. That is the decisions of both Great Britain and especially the USA to enter WW1. Unlike the story you have been told. The WW1 started because the Germans were building a railroad line from central Europe into the middle eastern oil fields, and the British could not tolerated this threat to their monopoly. If the USA had not entered WW1, there would have been no WW2, no Hitler, no Nazis, no holocaust, no iron curtain. And the result would have been much like the European Union we have today, but without the advent of Russia as a major world power. The blame for the present situation, lies firmly with Woodrow Wilson's decision to employ Edward Bernays to manipulate the antiwar sentiment in the USA using methods of unconscious motivation he learned from his uncle Sigmund Freud's psychological discoveries to turn the convictions of the population of the USA from antiwar to anti German. Now you know the truth and it still means nothing to you. Because you refuse to accept the fact that all the problems of humanity are caused by our leaders, both political and financial.
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  2417. Chinese companies get the benefit of their government viewing loosing money to put other countries businesses out of business as a policy. Just look at what the EU has turned up in it's investigation of the Chinese EV export market and the 20% plus tariffs it will apply to them. Sam may be all gaga over the "deals" he can get on Chinese EVs and I wouldn't be surprised if he is in their pocket to some extent. In the long run they will actually have to really charge what it costs plus, and when there is no competition left, try appealing to the Chinese for sympathy. Good luck with that with a country that makes your family pay for the bullet that they shot you with if found guilty.
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  2418. . . . Not "bass" relief -- "bah" reliefs. You would think that BBC was cultured: guess not.
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  2419. CNN has to manufacture consent to make their commentaries seem relevant. It's easy to seem mean when you are responding to idiots with facts and they think there are alternate facts. They usually hear these alternate facts from Trump or corporate news, or one of the myriad fake organizations which usually stand for the opposite of what their names imply, like Citizens United (which is really billionaires united) and Robert Mercer or the Koch brother (may the other rot in hell) are usually behind them.
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  2420. My own prediction is that sooner than you think, in a few years, none of these demographics will matter anymore. None of them. And you will not have to wait long to see that: AI, robots, and especially E5, will demolish your predictions. None of it will matter in the coming Elysium.
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  2421.  @YourHineyness  I have reason to be optimistic: LIfe has an urgent desire to survive and evolution is the prime determinant of survival. At this point evolution is no longer dependent on natural selection (if indeed it ever was). Though lame ideas of transferring an individuals identity and memories into an inorganic mechanism are held by some, I personally hold the opinion that the problem of deterioration and death will be overcome by bio-science (if it has not already been) Such as the research of Dr. H. Katcher and his discovery of the rejuvenation potential in E5 plasma borne nano particles. Imagine what potential will be tapped when the leading minds and geniuses in the sciences do not loose their mental acuity with age, or age biologically at all. Instead of educating and training new people to take up their torches, they could just go on. The demographics are meaningless if people stop aging and dying. We are talking about a procedure that will be affordable and available to everyone. Add in the Tesla bots and the advances that AI will make possible and there you have it. Can we, or some religious nut-job screw the pooch for the planet? It is a possibility, but Life itself is alive and I doubt very much if that is in the cards except as a conceptual postulate. What I do see as "in the cards" for humanity is a golden destiny among the stars with infinite resources and the expansion and "destupidification of humanity, as the physical reality of what the collective unconscious vaguely alluded to, via the myths and stories of most major religions (may they and the mindless dupes who take them literally disappear and take their divisiveness with them) become the physical reality for the many that they have been at times for the enlightened few.
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  2422. hhh
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  2423. Congress pasted a law which makes their insider trading prosecution free. There are actually ETAs that follow the stock disclosures of the members of congress and their families and friends and mirrors them. One for Republican members and one for Democrats. The Democratic fund does better. Nancy is an investment wizard! Nothing to see here, ignore that man behind the curtain.
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  2424.  @R4dr1ar  That's not why they outsell the others lol. The reason is, they are a superior product that sells itself. The tradional gangster German oems spend millions on ads, Tesla does not advertise, and because of that the mass media gives them bad press they do not deserve continually, because Tesla will not give them the hundreds of millions that other OEMs pay up. But all that has to happen is someones friend or neighbor buys a Tesla, and they start telling them how much they love them. How it is now their prize possession that is on a new level. A generation ahead of all other EVs, just like the F-22 is a generation ahead of an F-16. How it is improved continually with OTA updates. And how Tesla is a superior company that does not cheat its customers like VW group. Not to mention your own admission that the manner in which it operates is far more efficient and forward looking, that is exactly why they have the advantage that you admit.
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  2425.  @R4dr1ar  Not really. Take December sales for which we have good data. Best selling VW model VW e-up sold 7, 789 cars. Best selling Tesla model -- model 3 sold 27,445. Second best VW model ID4 sold 6,790 units. Second best selling Tesla model Y sold 8,085. In fact Telsa model 3 sold more units than the four top selling VW group EVs combined. And noi the new Tesla plant in Germany is ramping up. So the cars will be built in Germany, and many of the parts are made in Germany even for American made Teslas, and large parts of the car were engineered in Germany, so that along with the fact that Tesla is the number one selling BEV in Europe, and the most desired throws a little factual light on your fantastic assumptions. All models sold for months in advance, your idea that Europeans don't trust American cars just falls apart. The quality of the Teslas made at the new plants is phenomenal, and we expect the Teslas built in Germany to be the best Teslas in the world, until Austin gears up. Then they wlll be some of the best Teslas built. Customer support could use some improvement, and that is just the nature of a business that is expanding so rapidly. I mean basically the ideas you expressed have no basis in reality. Unless you accept the yammerings of the commercial media and auto media as reality, and anyone who knows how the sausage is made with free junkets, and free cars, and free gas to reviewers, and hundreds of millions spent on advertising time and space in the same media that reviews cars, knows that Tesla doesn't do any of that. They do not advertise, they do not have special vehicles that they loan out for reviews and testing, which all other OEMs do, and they do not wine and dine the media. Surely you can figure out where you went wrong. It is a common mistake, that will be totally rectified when your neighbor buys a Tesla and tells you all about it. And you idea that everyone will be able to do over the air updates like Tesla now can, in a few years is a huge assumption, and nearly delusional based on the data to date. Tesla cars have one software dev, VW EVs have like hundreds of different software developers that they are trying to integrate, and not doing so well at it. Tesla is a different generation than all its competition and they will never catch up because Tesla innovates at a greater pace than any of them. In five years some will have caught up to were Tesla is now, but Tesla will be long gone. Solid gone. Take a look at the built quality of the German Teslas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBgahsGyj9U&list=TLPQMjkwMzIwMjL2ux5T7bf3Zw&index=2
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  2426. Trump and his supporters remind me of hippos. All the hippos follow the alpha male hippo around and just delight in him spraying them with poop. He poops in their faces and they eat it up, they love it. Trumps psychotic word-salad during rallies and such is just like alpha male hippo shit.
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  2427. People who smoke, abuse alcohol, and eat meat should pay more for health insurance, or people who take care of themselves should be given extra services or gifts. Why should someone who does everything to avoid medical care pay for the stupid schmucks who like to destroy their health with tobacco. Tobacco products are responsible for more death worldwide than all the present wars put together.
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  2428.  @cathoderay305  The Taliban/Iran dust up will not amount to much. Taliban will not advance into Iran.
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  2429. Haven't heard anything from Rogan on this; anybody? . . .
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  2430.  @tarettime9392  Well, that certainly is a rational view, but I think it ascribes too much conscious awareness to the molders of policy and action. That may be the situation, but I think it just came about as a result of many little decisions, made automatically like the individual actions of ants that when combined with all the other ants add up to something that appears to have a motive while none of the individual ants, or in this case "minor decisions makers" actually were aware of what their actions would result in. +++
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  2431. I hear such stupid things on Bloomberg continually that it is almost amazing. Just heard that Musk's purchase of Twitter is a signal to Tesla investors that Twitter is a better investment than Tesla. If you don't understand how stupid this statement is, you don't know diddly squat.
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  2432.  @robbycook4298  Switzerland. Who did it correctly, offering support, therapy, and a holistic approach to getting addicts off the street with the need to commit crimes to support a habit. In my opinion overdose deaths are not a problem, they are a choice, just like racing your car in a rally would be. Some people just want to die in bliss, why keep resuscitating them an making them do it over again?
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  2433.  @tjk3430  Good move: cigarettes are more addictive than heroin and harder to stop using. After cigs the worst drug of all is alcohol, which is far far more toxic than opioids but, is acceptable because when the miners and mill workers in industrializing England began to turn to opium preparations because they were superior in dulling their pain of existence, the whiskey distillers got parliament to make opioids illegal in the hope of reviving the alcohol industry. It worked, in England, and the USA too. In the USA right up to the thirties you could go into a drug store and buy heroin and cocaine over the counter. That's why some call them the "good ole days".
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  2434. Ronald McDonald called from Nigeria. He said you have inherited two and a half million dollars, all he needs for you to claim it is access to your bank account.
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  2435. Incorrect on every count. The new Tesla model 3 performance weighs about the same as a BMW m3 and less than the equivalent Mercedes. You can fix the battery packs einstein, but they typically last longer than the rest of the car so why? Million mile batteries are now being produced. Most Tesla weigh less than EVs produced by the traditional OEMs and that unlike your points is a fact.
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  2436. Me too. Lets start a worker owned recreational hoverwing factory. Slide me ten or so and I will make it so.
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  2437. I have never even seen a YouTube ad unless the video creator splices them in, then I just fast forward. Thanks to firefox.
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  2438. Free will? . . . humph! Wait until a quantum computer tells you what your next thought will be. Then talk to me about free will.
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  2439. Our savior from a fantasy.
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  2440. You should move out of Russia, like anyone with any potential.
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  2441. Fool America a hundred times shame on you, fool America a hundred and one times, shame on you. . .GM.
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  2442. Love Tulsi. If I were on an island and got a fifteen minute warning I would take a boat and run like hell in any direction away from the island. Or a plane. A plane would be better unless there is an electro magnetic pulse that knocks out the electronics. A boat could get maybe five to ten mile away in that time. That would probably be enough.
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  2443. Musk warned Germany months ago that to not recommission the nuclear power plants it has taken off line is a strategic blunder. I though Germans were supposed to be intelligent. If you do not bring these plants back on line you are imbeciles.
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  2444. "press vehicle" "magazine car" -- does not mean anything about the cars coming off the line.
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  2445. It's not "politics" : there are actually people who make these decisions: DNC & RNC.
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  2446. hypnosis, suggestibility, and the placebo effect are all the same thing. So is the kind of self-deception that allows someone to believe they are special and the best.
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  2447. One thing I noticed about the performances at the Grammys is -- no rock and roll was played.
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  2448. You left out tachyionic ansibile and the intergalatic technology leveling logarithms that will determine the appropriate tech level of distinctive cultures.
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  2449. How can you trust a man who has a haircut like Zukerburgh? Obviously billions of dollars can't buy you any measure of aesthetic sensibility.
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  2450. No the hours are now 189 minutes long and will be until, . . . well you know, until we no longer live in interesting times. So what are the chances that body-double Melania is just the real Melania but after she had some work done, while she pretended to have CoVid. I say one hundred percent. You heard it here first, because I made it up, but it's still true.
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  2451.  @johnmccoll1611  "archives heel" brilliant bud.
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  2452.  @johnmccoll1611  I should have figured that out for myself. Was kinda funny though.
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  2453. The corporate news is still trying to black-out Bernie. Bernie, and Tulsi are the only candidates with any integrity, something the networks and cable news despises. Bernie understands that the lynch-pin of all the legalized corruption in our constitutional republic is campaign finance. What now passes for "business as usual" was not long ago a criminal act. But many progressives do not understand this. They are bored by the subject but excited by all kinds of meaningless PC rhetoric. While I was at a Nader rally in Santa Cruz back during his 2000 run, he said he had time for one more question. I yelled out "Campaign finance!" When he indicated that this was the subject he would address there was an audible groan from this most progressive crowd in America's most leftest town, . I guess most people never consider the fact that if Nader had won, we would have never attacked Iraq and the 2008 great recession (where-in the same people who caused it were put in charge of fixing it and managed to steal trillions in public funds for themselves and the institutions they hid their criminal activities behind) would never have occurred. And I would like to remind everyone that the criminals behind this, who had bribed the legislative branch with campaign contributions, were also the people who changed the laws to allow this disastrous turn of our republic. Which was unequaled until the retrograde idiot section of the supreme court passed Citizens United and other decisions of a antiAmerican nature that benefited the one-percent and their brain-washed right-wing idiot minions. Sorry if this comment went on for longer than a Twitter-brain can attend to. But if you notice, the comments that always get the most likes are always the most obvious and usually the most knee-jerk in nature. Never believe the "first-story": whether given by the government, the corporate news, the republocrats, or your own reactionary quite mechanical mind
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  2454. "The system" is not there to provide excellent government, it is there to protect and increase the power of the power elite, who don't care much what choice you think you have.
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  2455. Too bad about Elon. The idea that "free speech" is the bedrock of democracy would be true IF the media wasn't saturated with lies and spin. Democracy looses all it's qualities, in such an environment. Trump is free to speak, and most of his speech is lies and just idiotic mistakes, and it has done the opposite of help democracy. In fact if he could, Trump would be king. F him very much. Elon is just making a hail mary move to try to gain more power than he already has. Just too bad about Elon, going over to the dark side.
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  2456. The American troops in Vietnam had good reason to have low moral, they were victims of strategic ineptitude on the level that Russia is now demonstrating in Ukraine. If you doubt this I refer you to McNamara's later summation of it to be found in the documentary The Fog of War, that being "We didn't really know what we were doing." Despite combat troops coming from halfway around the world to violently interfere in their upcoming election, the Vietnamese do not hate the Americans. I think that Russia will find the demeanor of Ukrainians not so enlightened or forgiving. Though I could be wrong about this since the most massive genocide in all of history was inflicted upon the Ukrainians by the former Soviet Union's thuggery when they intentionally starved more Ukrainians to death in the Holodomor in 1932, than the number of Jews and others the Nazis murdered in their more famous genocide, yet they seemed to have largely forgiven this most massive atrocity in all of history: until now.
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  2457. Bravo Jimmy -- you did it with panache and unwavering truth.
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  2458.  @mr.darknight416  More investors have lost money shorting Tesla than any other company in history. You should give it a try. Maybe it will be different this time. lol
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  2459.  @mr.darknight416  I bought at $550, $650, and $1150, and have diamond hands on Tesla, without regrets. In fact it is my greatest hope that it falls into the six hundreds one more time, I would bet the farm on it at that point. It seems like a hype train, but if you find out the real depth of Tesla's interests it is quite understandable. Right now Tesla has many of the forces of stagnation arrayed against it, both political and industrial, but the fact remains it makes cars that need no advertising to sell out all production. It has five of the most advanced factories on earth about to come on line. It has manufacturing methods that are a quantum leap beyond even the most advanced manufacturers, and most importantly it has a fine engineer at its head not some Harvard Business School idiot.
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  2460. Winner! Stupid comment of the day award. June 11 -- 2020. Also winner of the "How to confuse symbols with reality award". One way to tell if someone or some organization is dim witted is if they consider any symbol to be of more significance than that which it symbolizes. A perfect example of this, is the kind of stupidity that wants to charge people with a crime for burning the American Flag. Which law was proposed by an elected idiot and was thought a good idea by masses of Americans whose primary method of dealing with life is to be a reactionary dunce. It must once again be made a shameful act to display ill-considered ignorance and stupidity as if they are something that should not be flagged for what they actually are. I know one thing for sure. You are too stupid and or disinformed to understand or agree with the preceding statement. By the way, when I was a young man, it was illegal to wear a shirt made out of the flag, or to use the flag as anything really other than a flag. I believe they actually attempted to charge Abbey Hoffman with some crime for it. Obviously this has changed and the flag is now a big money maker in clothing design and coffee cups and such. Allow me to add -- Wake the fuck up -- out of your gamesmanship inspired stupor -- fool. . . .
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  2461.  Allan 112358  If the rant fits wear it. And my rant obviously fits you. Funny how someone can think they are making some point, while the only point you are making is the one your head comes to -- which is kind of ironic considering the kind of blockhead it would take to make your comment. Yeah let's change the flag, that will really mean something. What a dumb ass.
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  2462.  Allan 112358  -- How proud you are to be a victim disinformation. Stop getting your news from guys handing out hate literature at gun shows, and fox news and try reality for a change. It's a protest dickhead, not an insurrection. These people have romantic ideas about truth, justice, and love being able to overcome scumbag hate filled reactionaries like yourself. It's all to make a point that is obviously beyond your pay grade intelligence-wise.
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  2463.  Allan 112358  You really are too stupid to understand the difference between the relative significance of symbols and that which they symbolize. You are lost in a false reality of misconstrued conceptions. If you had anything to say or two brain cells to rub together their would be some hope for you. But you don't even realize that everything you write is a tell about your low intelligence. You can't hide it with psuedo-reasoning like the nonsense that has been spewing out of you about the flag. Like most right-wing nuts you are too stupid to realize how dumb you are.
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  2464.  Allan 112358  So far you have said nothing. Go ahead, state your objective. You claim to be looking for new forms. Here's a new form. The simple truth about power: Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it. We knew this all the way back in the golden age of the Athenian hegemony. This includes everyone: both the golden boy of the right-wing nuts, and the wanna-be populists who take a mike at a protest. Power should never be entrusted to anyone who seeks it: for any reason. Power should only be given to a person who doesn't want it and has been found to be the best person for the job. This is why we should turn from our psuedo-republic, which is really a plutocratic kleptocracy to a neoconfusian meritocracy where all positions of power are temporarily held by those found most adequate by means of testing and virtual scenarios devised by scientists and voted on by the populace. The populace would not vote for people but for the various tests devised to select the office holders. I am aware of the objections some would have to this but they are nothing that cannot be resolved by technical means, such as the top scorers being tested further in secure conditions. These tests would be mandatory for every citizen at regular intervals, and whoever scores highest would assume the position they tested for during the next regular government upgrade. This would be superior in every respect to the plutocratic kleptocracy we are now enslaved by. And all forms of cheating could be easily overcome by technical means.
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  2465.  Allan 112358  You are delusional, you have proved nothing and you have nothing of value to say. Any fool can say an idea is sophomoric. That's not an argument that's just you proving to yourself that you are stupid enough to believe your own bull shit.
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  2466. The Nazis did it eighty years ago, but used it to shoot around corners.
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  2467. If they find that the capital cop was murdered, then every one who participated in invading the capital should be accused of being an accomplice to murder.
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  2468.  @BenGrem917  If you were a male, and owned land, and not a foreigner, you were required to vote. Athens has a tradition of banishing people they put in power when they didn't live up to expectations, and sometimes even if they did.
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  2469. It may help if you didn't blot out their faces then ask people to identify them. . . . duh . . .
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  2470. Yeah, that's one story. But what you don't realize is that is all that it is.
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  2471. Even if Biden was a brain dead catatonic it would be better than trump. However Biden will never beat Trump. So it's either Bernie or Trump.
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  2472. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases, Fact: the biggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one simple and most effective action you are capable of that will help, because you have a flesh addiction that you cannot overcome: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death. In other words if you are concerned about climate change and you have not made this one simple and easy modification of your rapacious lifestyle, you are just another hypocrite, just like all the people you despise.
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  2473. Try the central coast: no mosquitoes even in the forests.
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  2474. This is more corporate news lies. We knew this would happen. All the progressive real news on the net warned about this app scam that the DNC was about to pull. It was detailed in advance. The corporate news presents a false paradigm of the political and economic reality in America. Some day there will be real consequences for your continual spin and lying to benefit your one percent masters you fucken elite wanna-bees. Fuck you and the horse of corruption you rode in on, lying shitheads.
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  2475. Wow, it take one or two imbeciles to respond with personal attacks against people they don't know at all and everything devolves into some kind of nitwit contest. I liked your comment. But the replies are a perfect example of something unworthy of any primate with a functional prefrontal cortex.
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  2476. Dude. . . take my advice: let a female with a sense of fashion choose your sunglasses.
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  2477. Future generations will look back on the MAGA cult with wonder. Though it does make sense for the set that got the permanent tax break, if your greed trumps your social morality. We deplorables truly have no one to turn to. Nobody who seeks power is trust worthy, much the contrary. Well past time for a new paradigm. Across the board the leaders ARE the problem, but the rule by the lunacy of MAGA is even worse.
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  2478.  @imacmill  You are delusional. Opioids are some of the least harmful drugs you can use. People use them for decades on end with only minor side effects, like constipation. The problem is the antidrug laws which make users outcasts and criminals rich. You analogy is seriously flawed. Patents do not take their own lives if treated like humans and not criminalized and forced to resort to street drugs for pain and or withdrawal and when they do die it is usually an overdose due to street drugs unregulated potency. Both Switzerland and Portugal have proven this with enlightened drug policies. Your statement is an example of uninformed disinformation -- just bull.
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  2479. I would love to see Kabib and Ben Askrin fight. Not much of a weight difference and it would be great to see Ben humiliate the "monster".
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  2480. Not "com pair able" -- com per able
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  2481.  @phunkracy  I knew someone who fought at Mote Cassino. The problem there was not taking it. They took it over and over. The problem was the second rate GIs that were ordered to hold it, and gave it up over an over.
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  2482.  @Simmo_AU  Or perhaps it is because of how money was made in Chinese real estate and construction for decades having less to do with reality than a system of corruption.
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  2483.  @sirkl4272  90 percent of all news is press releases by some interested party. So what else is new.
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  2484. Listen Millennials and younger: You want Bernie to win. The only way that Bernie can win is if you people vote in the primary. If you personally do not vote in the pimary Bernie will not even be the democratic candidate. Get you heads out of your phones, put down the video games, forget about your facebook personna and do the little bit of research to find out how and where to vote in the primary. If you can't do that little bit of work and focus, like you didn't in 16, Bernie doesn't stand a chance, because most of the democrats older than you are for Biden. You have them outnumbered but you have to get your shit together or your dreams will become another four year long nightmare.
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  2485. :41 Biden talks, but when it comes to supporting those who have done the most to address climate change like Tesla, he does the opposite of acting. He attempts to sabotage the impressive and real progress they are making. Instead he supports companies that are hopelessly behind in developing the tech and industries that will REALLY make a difference. And of course DN instead of reporting on the incredible advances by a company, whose primary goal is to address climate change, they interview the people who will benefit most from Tesla's advances, but never even mention those who are actually doing something. DN get a brain and join the real progressives that will actually do something instead of just bitching about the effects of climate change. You interview Rahim but really, what will he do to address this problem? . . . He will just bitch about the injustice of being poor, and really do NOTHING and DN will do the same . . . nothing.
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  2486. When are people going to catch on that all the enmity between nations is just a ruse used by their respective power-elites to maintain and increase their own power and status at extreme expense in blood and money to all the people of the world?
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  2487.  @Tomzuki.  Since YOuTube will not allow a link to an outside source that would explain to you the fundamentals of moto suspension here is what Chat GPT has to say on the matter. Low unsprung mass is crucial in motorcycles used on the street for several reasons: Improved Handling and Responsiveness: Unsprung mass refers to the weight of components not supported by the suspension system, such as wheels, tires, and part of the motorcycle's suspension. Reducing unsprung mass enhances the motorcycle's ability to respond quickly to changes in the road surface. This results in improved handling, better maneuverability, and increased responsiveness, especially during cornering and quick direction changes. Enhanced Suspension Performance: A lower unsprung mass allows the suspension system to react more efficiently to bumps, irregularities, and other road imperfections. The suspension can follow the contours of the road more accurately, providing a smoother and more controlled ride. This is particularly important for street motorcycles where comfort and stability are essential. Increased Traction: Lower unsprung mass contributes to better tire contact with the road surface. Improved traction is essential for safe street riding, especially during acceleration, braking, and cornering. With reduced unsprung mass, the tires can maintain better contact with the road, leading to enhanced grip and stability. Reduced Vibrations and Fatigue: Motorcycles with lower unsprung mass tend to experience fewer vibrations transmitted from the road to the rider. This not only enhances comfort but also reduces rider fatigue during long rides. The overall smoothness of the ride contributes to a more enjoyable and less tiring experience for street riders. Braking Performance: Low unsprung mass is beneficial for braking performance. The reduced weight in the unsprung components allows the braking system to work more effectively, resulting in quicker and more controlled stops. This is crucial for street motorcycles where sudden stops may be necessary in traffic or emergency situations. Fuel Efficiency: While the impact on fuel efficiency may be relatively small, reducing unsprung mass can contribute to overall energy efficiency. Lighter components require less energy to move, and this can result in slightly improved fuel economy. In summary, low unsprung mass in street motorcycles enhances handling, responsiveness, traction, and overall ride quality. These factors are vital for a positive riding experience, safety, and performance on the diverse road conditions encountered in everyday street riding.
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  2488. There is not enough time on earth to correct you guest's opinions with facts. Consistently incorrect throughout the interview.
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  2489. I really don't know the original author so whoever you are -- bravo. The “billionaire” who hides his tax returns. The “genius” who hides his college grades. The “businessman” who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 years. The “playboy” who pays for sex. The “Christian” who doesn’t go to church. The “philanthropist” who defrauds charity. The “patriot” who dodged the draft. And attacks dead Veterans and their widows. The “innocent man” who refuses to testify. Trump Translations "Many People have told me" = Voices in my head and fictional people have complimented me "A lot of people don't know" = I just learned something most people already knew "Believe me" = I just lied "In Fact" = I'm about to lie "He's a great guy" = I will deny ever knowing this person after they begin to tell the truth about me "MAGA" = Making my pockets fatter off the American tax payers "Nobody knew" = Everyone knew except me "Huge" = moderate to below average in size "Loser" = someone who makes me feel inferior due to their talent or accomplishments "Policy Briefing" = Turning on Fox News "Liar" = Someone telling the truth about me "Fake News" = Real news 30
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  2490. Ukraine needs nukes and they know how to make them. The only way Ukraine will win this war, not take back what they lost but defeat the Russians, is if they are no longer under the Russian nuclear threat. The only way this will happen is if they again have their own nukes. Russia thinks that it is untouchable, but I don't think that the Ukrainians would be all that forgiving -- given the possibility of taking the fight to the Russian motherland. I think they would win, and it would be a good thing for everyone on earth to see Russia broken up, and shorty brought to the gallows, along with his enablers. The biggest genocide in all of history took place in Ukraine at the hands of the Russians, and the bastards are trying to do it again. This evil must end.
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  2491. Trump spews the word salad to distract everyone, it's like a car wreck and you rubber neck, all the wile the power-elite are consolidating more and more wealth and power and fucking everyone over continuously in ways they don't even understand or know about. But slowly because of decentralized media like this, people are figuring out how the banksters and their hired-hand politicians are screwing them
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  2492. More disinformation from AT&T the owner of CNN: Bernie swept Iowa. DNC cheated, so obviously that everyone but corporate news admits it (AT&T owns CNN they are conservative on the verge of fascist.) Theses bastards deserve to go broke. If you depend on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, ABC, NBC, or even PBS for your news You are a fool. Try Democracy Now, The Hill, The Real News Netwark
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  2493. Democrats Load Platform Committee to Stop Progressive Movement Democrats Load Platform Committee to Stop Progressive Movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1NlZTH70e8 DNC Chair Tom Perez is stacking party committees to sideline Sanders and to push a corporate agenda that kills progressive ideas and campaigns. How much more evidence do people need to understand that the DNC is composed of cheating compromised co-opted scumbags? Slowly via the new distributed media of the internet people are learning about their continuing ongoing dirty tricks in the service of their oligarch masters. The cheating has already begun with the introduction of an app that Iowa caucus will use to report local results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbrvAu7g4w8 From the sellouts at NPR: Iowa's Democrats hope the new app lets the party get results out to the public quicker, says Troy Price, the chairman of the state party. In an interview, Price declined to provide more details about which company or companies designed the app, or about what specific measures have been put in place to guarantee the system's security. But security is a priority, he says. The state party worked with the national party's cybersecurity team, and with Harvard University's Defending Digital Democracy project, but Price declined to answer directly whether any third party has investigated the app for vulnerabilities, as many cybersecurity experts recommend. "We as the party have taken this very seriously, and we know how important it is for us to make sure that our process is secure and that we protect the integrity of the process," Price says. "We want to make sure we are not relaying information that could be used against us." Unlike many states in which local and state officials oversee the presidential primary election, in Iowa the state party is responsible for administering, staffing and funding the caucuses, relying primarily on trained but unpaid volunteers. Cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said that the party's decision to withhold the technical details of its app doesn't do much to protect the system — and instead makes it hard to have complete confidence in it. "The idea of security through obscurity is almost always a mistake," says Doug Jones, a computer science professor at the University of Iowa and a former caucus precinct leader. "Drawing the blinds on the process leaves us, in the public, in a position where we can't even assess the competence of the people doing something on our behalf." DNC Chair Tom Perez is stacking party committees to sideline Sanders and to push a corporate agenda that kills progressive ideas and campaigns. How much more evidence do people need to understand that the DNC is composed of cheating compromised co-opted scumbags? Slowly via the new distributed media of the internet people are learning about their continuing ongoing dirty tricks in the service of their oligarch masters. The cheating has already begun with the introduction of an app that Iowa caucus will use to report local results.
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  2494. Until the public realizes that meat, dairy, and processed foods are killing them, and force the end of animal agriculture -- which is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gases and climate change -- the single biggest positive response to interdict climate change is Tesla Inc, and the idiot environmentalists in Germany are protesting the opening of the new plant in Berlin. If you are not a vegan you should just shut your mouth about climate change because you refuse to do the most potent act you as an individual can take to protect the environment -- you selfish rapacious walking oxymoron -- and it may be added, regular old moron too.
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  2495. How can the west defeat Russia without going nuclear? Get it to attack Ukraine.
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  2496. Maybe they would demand that the British banks like HSBC stop laundering cartel money. That would be a good start.
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  2497. Yeah, seems like it.
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  2498. Usually see your vids as obvious, but this one is true on one level, nonsense on the level of conscious evolution. Nice story, but there are other stories that are far more effective and based in reality instead of the motifs found in Iron age fantasies. Perhaps what Jan Cox said is true, "People become psychologists to help other people because they cannot help themselves." Before Bukowski Gurdjieff worte, "When on a holiday go the whole hog, including the postage."
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  2499.  @KirkFickert  My mistake, I was thinking of Sweden. I have edited and corrected this and the fact that it is the Swedes and not the Canadians that have given self-propelled howitzers. thanks.
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  2500. His tweet is called a false equivalency. The flu has already spread throughout the US population. The corona is just starting -- with a four day doubling rate. You figure it out. It is ten times more fatal than the flu. Remember the chess player who took a grain of rice on the first square of a chess board and double it every square, and by the end of the sixty four squares you own the world. This will not be over in a few weeks, it will go on for months and almost everyone will get it. Hand washing etc is bullshit. You breath the air that someone who is infected has breathed out and you have it. And they may not even symptomatic. Males in good health in their forties seem to have a high fatality rate. This is gonna suck big time and go on until everyone is exhausted, plus we get all our drugs from China and India and have no stockpiles of necessary medical devices. Fucked.
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  2501. What about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w
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  2502.  @tuforu4  Your response indicates that you missed the point of my comment by, oh, say. . . approximately a goggleplex of light-years.
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  2503. You are now in the National Enquirer league of fake news.
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  2504. Delusional. Almost all Russians believe that Ukraine attacked them.
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  2505. English/Bullshit dictionary english: votes -- bullshit: popular votes english: kleptocracy -- bullshit: electoral votes
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  2506. Increased complexity is not the way forward. For every moving part in an EV motor an ICE has 500, and a hybrid increases that number and complexity and maintenance and fire hazard, everything about it is last century.
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  2507. Indeed: why not discuss the laundering of cartel money by British bank?
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  2508. He still has over 250 billion so I think he is doing OK. Unlike your hate rant which is all bull shit that the commercial media fed you in it's attempt to shake down a few billion a year from Tesla, to get Tesla to advertise to stop the lies and negative spin. Fools like you think that the media is there to inform you, it is not, it's sole purpose is to sell ad time/space no matter what it's political orientation. So they tell you exactly what you want to hear. And in your case you want lies to reinforce your stupid knee jerk reactions. GM 2.2 billion in ads in 2020, Tesla 0.
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  2509. Track mode makes the Tesla slower genius.
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  2510. I hit the top speed with my miata a lot of the time.
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  2511. Face it: there is no need for endless commentary: Russia is holding the world hostage by it's threat of doomsday weapons. In a conventional war the state of California alone would crush Russia.
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  2512. I knew this would happen for over twenty years. I guess I should have been payed the big consulting bucks, but then again, it was so obvious what was going on. You had to be a fool or an investor in defense industries not to see it.
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  2513. Yep even judges have families in the pot growing business. The same clowns who put people in jail for years for a joint, often are now connected to the supply.
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  2514.  @matthewjdouglas6471  In CA you can get a good deal on grow lamps and equipment by buying from the police sites online, or you used to be able to anyhow.
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  2515.  @MikeBronson515  Look at their performance in recent conflicts like Iran.
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  2516. And due to the updated manufactoring in Tesla Berlin, the German Tesla's will actually be more advanced than those produced anywhere else. Except for maybe the Cybertrucks coming out of Austin.
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  2517. They are wrong about how Trump can stay in. He doesn't need to prove voter fraud. Here is how: Here is how: Here is how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w
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  2518. yes
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  2519. When PBS became dependent on private donors it's objectivity went down the toilet. They are now as biased as the rest of the corporate news. And they have turned off the comments on the clip you are addressing on YouTube. What a bunch of babies. I guess they need a safe-space to protect them from viewer comments.
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  2520. Hey why not just sell votes for a dollar a piece? I mean isn't that what we actually have now?
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  2521. That's why you are in internal hell.
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  2522. I'm gonna have mine layup carbon fiber hulls and assemble hoverwing ground effects hovercrafts. So I can fly on the Susquehanna River.
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  2523. Epidemiological evidence: If you mine coal for a living you have a high possibility of getting black lung. But wait, this is all epidemiological evidence, they have never done a clinical study to prove it. As Bugs would say -- "What a maroon."
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  2524. Sorry to disillusion you, but Pete does not answer queries on this channel, and he probably never reads comments either. But my two cents on this subject is that it was the advent of news for profit with CNN. Until then network news departments were isolated from sales and financial considerations, was unaffected by ratings, and was always a loss leader. But they should bring back equal time. That would be great, half of all viewing on cable news would be equal time commentary on lies and spin.
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  2525. Just who are you buying the car from? Did you give them any money? Did you sign any contract or other papers? Something sounds fishy. Just get a Tesla.
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  2526. The politicians time and time again commit good men to irksome actions that have dubious or worse outcomes. In this case as in later in Afghanistan, the only real winners were the American Arms OEMs that got orders to replace the lost material. Both the Rothschild and the Morgana fortunes were built by supplying governments with the means to fight wars. And no matter who won the money boys made their nut every time.
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  2527. Yeah, not to worry, TSMC is building two huge fabs in AZ right now. My bet is that if China invades, TSMC goes up in flames, and any essential workers magically reappear in Phoenix.
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  2528. Won't be called Model 2, but it may be called the model T.
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  2529. NBC was around and successful long before Donald stopped snorting coke at Studio 54. They will be around, long after he is (thankfully) dead and gone. Then Repubs will have to find some other asshat to confuse the dummies.
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  2530. They are blaming Elon for women wanting to have his babies? If they had giga-cash any woman fool enough to have sex with them would want to have their babies too, instead of insisting on them chipping in for an abortion.
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  2531. So far one: that's one, illegal ballot has been found in PA. The person illegally filled in his dead mother's signature and voted for Trump. Your opinion is totally based in lies and disinformation, and obviously you back a lying draft dodging conman who considers anyone who joins the service to be a fool. Not the first time an amoral NYC conman pulled the wool over the eyes of a bunch of small town rubes and it won't be the last. Grow up and learn to distinguish facts from lies. If you ever do that the reasons why most people consider Trump supporters to be imbeciles will be apparent even to someone like you.
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  2532. We should all just listen to the best president of all time and do exactly what he says. Because it's obvious from how the people around him behave that he is the best and has a real handle on the reality of the situation. I mean any man with his name on buildings all over the world must be a great leader. Stop all the bitching and fact checking and line up and applaud him and watch everything he does and listen to every thing he says. He is so fascinating and not like all you dumb experts and intellectuals, he is entertaining like a slow motion train wreck. And like the pope he cannot be wrong. Actually he is every bit a real life super-hero. He is a very stable genius and all the tuff people support him. And they have guns and the democrats mostly don't. Yeh Trump, best president ever, and the savior of the USA. And stop laughing at his hair and fake tan, he is supposed to look his best he is the spokes-model for the USA. Trump totally represents us and theAmericans who voted him in are really smart and the envy of the world. Plus he has the best ratings. So: all you smart asses out there just remember whatever you do, do not laugh in this god-like mans face, no matter what he says. You just do not have the superior IQ like him, and don't understand how deeply profound his statements are, and that they are both earnest and sarcastic at the same time. He is a quantum president and his statements only mean what he says in retrospect like Schrodinger's cat statements. He is magic, almost like Jesus or Hitler, and if you openly laugh at him, he will punish us by going away. So don't laugh in his face when you are with him in person, not that anyone near him has the balls or ovaries to do it anyway. A point he proves everyday, you delightful scallywags and misanthropic sycophants. Good job, how did we ever deserved the wonderful leaders we have. Without you guys we would really be hard pressed to find a war worth fighting and that would hurt the economy.
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  2533. Every time you just don't know what to say because of the absurdity of something it cracks me up. I concur these people are absurd and ridiculous.
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  2534. Their are conscious organisms, such as lizards and birds (while they are not sleeping at least), and their are self-conscious organisms (like some humans, who at times are aware that they are conscious, like now, now that I brought it up) but there is no "consciousness" outside of the act of being conscious, anymore than their is a "runningness" while sitting and reading. Another example of misunderstanding arising from the same old propensity. And the propensity is found in the amazingly creative ability for the associative thought-centric mind to create conceptual models that do not correspond to reality. Therefore providing civilization, culture, and technology to all the little particleules like youses and meses. If you like: associate concepts about it -- but you can't get here from there. Even if for some reason you suspect that you want to, which you won't.
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  2535. The largest cause of climate change: animal agriculture. IF all the forests that were cut down to provide pasture land since 1800 were allowed to reforest we would have no climate change. Look at the middle east, huge tracts of wasteland, caused by ignorance and subsistence grazing of sheep and goats since way before 1800. Yet it has been proven over and over, that if you stop the grazing, and reintroduce native grasses, IN A MATTER OF YEARS, fresh water springs will appear because the aquifers have refilled, because the grasses allow the natural water and moisture to penetrate the soil and not just run off. Then in a little longer forests will start to grow. This will work in land that is currently totally barren. Yet this is never, ever addressed by politicians because of the money from the meat and dairy industry. 87% of the greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture.
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  2536. As the blind man said, "We shall see."
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  2537.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Right here on other videos. And other places too.
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  2538.  @ChinaSongsCollection  Sorry my time is too valuable to do research for you. Believe it or don't, or find out yourself.
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  2539.  @hanshengzhang619  Both Buffet and Woods sold off some BYD recently. BYD didn't sell as many EVs in China as Tesla did. I hope they do well cause I own them, but they are no Tesla. And really not much chance of them getting into the USA without tariffs. Don't know where you are getting your figures from, but Tesla delivered 100,200 EVs in China in November -- BYD sold 90k EVs in China in November. Your figures must have come from the CCP or Reuters or some other FUD packers. The problem with BYD is not sales, it is the CCP. There are big questions as to whether or not China will evern exist as it is now in another ten years. Peter Zeihan, the political demographer that predicted the invasion of Ukraine five years before it happened claims that China will self-destruct before the decade is out. That it the major threat to BYD investors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzT38jCUpgU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExjCHkDotW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpU5DKR2BBs My advice to you is that if you live in China, get the fuck out if you can -- soon. Within my lifetime the Chinese were eating the bark off of trees and each other to stay alive, don't get caught in what is coming.
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  2540. Trying to nation build in Afghanistan and Iraq was the stupidest thing for America, of course it was a smart thing for the Bush family financially. Invest in defense industry and then start a war over nothing in Iraq and nation build in Afghanistan after he ran saying that nation building is not our business. Bush was probably the worst president we have ever had, and that's saying a lot considering the likes of Clinton and the orange conman.
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  2541. The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources, cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The most important thing a person can do to address climate change, as an individual, is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, our grandchildren will be forced to decide if they should eat their babies in the hope of surviving a few more weeks when crops fail globally. That's the choice: do we indulge our blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered reactive opinions, or do we leave future generations an earth worth living on. Or we can just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things, and put off acting until it's beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of us, even if convinced of the dire reality of the global climate situation will go on with our rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are we rational moral beings, or just mad machines that really have no control over ourselves?
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  2542. Wow
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  2543. Berth -- any idiot can say anything on youtube. All you have proved here is that your a moron undeserving of any further response.
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  2544. Don't say unrelenting. Say relentless or else you sound like a clueless doof, trying to sound intelligent.
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  2545. How dare you speak about the first emperor of the solar system like that? Your body will be reduced to protein slime in the martian refuse digestors and used to glue tanstemporal flux capacitors onto omnibots. And you deserve it.
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  2546. Jimmy, you should be so proud that you are now a champion of the Trump tards.
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  2547. He averages eight public lies per day and is an ignorant conman, but as long as he appears to be fighting to keep the border secure and to deport people who are in the country illegally he will have massive support. People do not want the USA to turn into Mexico. The reason the USA is such a desirable place to live is just because it is basically a European country. If people cannot see the truth to that statement they are basically blind, and if DN continues to associate an open border policy with more progressive movements, in the minds of those on the fence, they are really working for Trump.
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  2548. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  2549.  @1nsaniel  So says Hollywood.
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  2550. I personally find it incredible that Jordan Peterson is so revered, while so many others who are far beyond his discernment of the human condition are largely unknown and ignored. I suppose it is some kind of general function of collective awareness that that is the way things have always gone and will continue to go. Personally I think the mans ideas are trite that he is personally a facade, and that he attempts to help others because he is incapable of helping himself.
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  2551. An astute and unbiased view. The problem with power, and money is power, is that it doesn't matter who holds it, it stimulates epigenitic hormonal programs that give rise to what outside observers refer to as corruption. But what from the inside seems like one's higher destiny unfolding, basically conscienceless megalomania. It doesn't matter what "flavor" they present to the public, under the skin they are all bastards, or end up that way even if they did not start out as a high functioning psychopath (which by the way are found in a much greater concentration in the halls of power). The problem lies in how humans are automatically programmed to respond to those seeking power, and the systems we have put in place to choose them which does not take this into account. I could go on at great length about how it has been shown that democracy cannot work as it could if the public is constantly lied to about what they are voting on. This is a scientific fact. The average conclusion of a mass of people who are presented with actual facts about a complex situation will be more accurate and correct than the most accurate individual conclusion. But the populous must be provided with actual facts and not spin or outright lies. If they are not, democracy becomes an inferior system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZedNdz6kgR8&t=205s
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  2552. That's why Tesla is supplying megapacks all over the world. No mater what you think, it's coming. They are set to make a fortune on gov subs for battery production alone, and are expanding manufacturing of megapacks at breakneck speed. Half of the electricity in Europe is already produced by wind and solar and that's just the beginning. Hopefully nuke will experience a renaissance but despite the Ludite reckoning, wind and solar are viable and they need battery storage even if it is just a gravity battery like hydro actually is.
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  2553.  @flash_flood_area  Excellent response.
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  2554. Aptera carries its motors as UNSPRUNG weight. So -- should be a no go if you understand anything about handling and what would happen on anything but super smooth roads without any fun curves in them.
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  2555. Tesla did not soar because of Hertz. Tesla is sold out, it does not matter at all if they sell to Hertz or someone else, as evidence by the fact that Hertz paid retail for their Teslas.
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  2556. Seen the videos of the Palestinian terrorists who invaded Israel being given orders in Russian? Who benefits? Certainly not the Palestinian people, but Russia would.
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  2557. HOw about an episode predicting the consequences of Trump winning the election and managing to subvert the democratic process even more than he has already tried to do.
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  2558. The corporate news is still trying to black-out Bernie. Bernie, and Tulsi are the only candidates with any integrity, something the networks and cable news despises. Bernie understands that the lynch-pin of all the legalized corruption in our constitutional republic is campaign finance. What now passes for "business as usual" was not long ago a criminal act. But many progressives do not understand this. They are bored by the subject but excited by all kinds of meaningless PC rhetoric. While I was at a Nader rally in Santa Cruz back during his 2000 run, he said he had time for one more question. I yelled out "Campaign finance!" There was an audible groan from this most progressive crowd in America's most leftest town, when he indicated that this was the subject he would address. I guess most people never consider the fact that if Nader had won, we would have never attacked Iraq and the 2008 great recession (where-in the same people who caused it were put in charge of fixing it and managed to steal trillions in public funds for themselves and the institutions they hid their criminal activities behind) would never have occurred. And I would like to remind everyone that the criminals behind this, who had bribed the legislative branch with campaign contributions, were also the people who changed the laws to allow this disastrous turn of our republic. Which was unequaled until the retrograde idiot section of the supreme court passed Citizens United and other decisions of a antiAmerican nature that benefited the one-percent and their brain-washed right-wing idiot minions. Sorry if this comment went on for longer than a Twitter-brain can attend to. But if you notice, the comments that always get the most likes are always the most obvious and usually the most knee-jerk in nature. Never believe the "first-story": whether given by the government, the corporate news, the republocrats, or your own reactionary quite mechanical mind
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  2559.  @crosstraffic187  If you like being blind and want to stay that way, you are correct you don't need to know the real history. I am in sympathy with the anti tar sands movement, but the lies upheld by DN and the Indian nations themselves are just blatant underhanded psychological manipulations. This woman brought up the "series of massacres" why not allow the truth to be told about something that she brought up herself?
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  2560.  @Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism  As did many of the Indian tribes, on a much vaster scale.
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  2561. @Rudy Poo I can document my expressions about the nature of the stone age tribes that inhabited the Americas before the European invasion of same. Try reading some history and forget about the romanticized Hollywood revisionist bull that has been prevalent in our mass media. It's just fantasy. Democracy Now will not even allow a comment that states any of the real history of the first nations to be expressed. They just delete it. Quite authoritarian and intolerant for an organization that pretends to be the opposite. Just like the Trump cultists, if the truth doesn't line up with their disinformation and false narratives they just erase it.
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  2562.  @Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism  You don't know my genetic make-up you presumptuous dickhead.
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  2563. Sure there were no agent provocateurs or fifth columnists at the protests -- in fantasyland.
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  2564.  @gluttonousmachina2961  I was just answering a question Kaytnmermaid had about a previous post. Anyway I didn't say you couldn't do it. I said you couldn't do it without a kneejerk reaction on the part of some of your mentioned theocrats. Which is true. You are just doing it in a place were hardly anybody sees it. Or maybe the days of hysterical antiantisemetic rhetoric are over.
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  2565. Ahhh ha ha ha ha ha. More word salad from the conman in chief. The banksters thank thee oh pawn of Mercer.
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  2566. I support Bernie, and cannot fathom Trump's appeal except as a reaction to the general hatred of Hillary. On the other hand Asian is an jerk and Islamic apologist who deserves no public attention what-so-ever. His report about Pat Robinson's dream is real fake news. Research it for yourself. No, he didn't really say that. The story came from a site called "The Business Standard News." This is what they say about themselves: "The Business Standard News is a satirical site designed to parody the 24-hour news cycle. The stories are outlandish, but reality is so strange nowadays they could be true."http://bizstandardnews.com/.../robertson-said-he-had.../
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  2567. Click bait scumbags pretending to be journalists.
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  2568. The irony is delightful. The richest man in the world has done more than any other person or organization to address the climate issue and you interview Mexican students who have done nothing but bitch. That's what democracy now considers a proper spin -- sad. Where's the interview with Musk? What's the matter don't want to see your false narrative deconstructed?
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  2569. You may think this is history, but personally I see it as a study more accurately referred to as the study of historian.
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  2570. Have to say you peeked my interest in this matter. It was easy to find Hyman on a list of MDs who you should not trust. And on a quack list along with Grundy and other perveyors of unscientific nonsense. Here is some of what I found. ". . . Mark Hyman’s pseudoscience includes popular detox diets (which also means buying his questionable – and expensive – detox supplements), giving health advice that is not backed by the body of scientific evidence, and promoting a bogus autism cure. He also propagates the false belief that vaccines are related to autism, and false information about heavy metals. He recommends bogus testing for heavy metals and expensive “chelation” therapy (a test that may be harmful) that he has ordered on “tens of thousands of patients.” Harriet Hall, MD has a excellent pieced about Mark Hyman and functional medicine that includes the following: “He sells dietary supplements and detox cleanses. He has said that the law of thermodynamics doesn’t apply in living organisms, and that current medicine is as obsolete as bloodletting or phrenology. He says diseases don’t exist. He is essentially a germ theory denialist, saying it’s the terrain, not the germ.” “Hyman includes standard advice about a healthy lifestyle, but he mixes it indiscriminately with advice that is based on speculation rather than on credible evidence. And he makes claims that defy belief (curing autism with cod liver oil) and many that are demonstrably not true.” Hyman is listed on Quackwatch as an author whose books promote misinformation, espouse unscientific theories, and/or contain unsubstantiated advice. He also advises GOOP, and his advice seems to be in line with other GOOP Doctors. When scientific experts reviewed evidence on fats and cardiovascular disease and it didn’t align with Hyman’s own ideas, he endorsed an article by “RebootedBody.com” promoting the idea that the American Heart Association is a terrorist organization. Here’s another example of his misinformation (and fear-mongering) from Mark Hyman’s twitter account, a comment about wheat and sugar that does not make biochemical or nutritional sense. . . . " etc. So, I personally will stick with the actual science, not the "keep them in doubt" science offered by the divers studies sponsered by the meat and dairy industry, or snake oil salesmen who went to med school. People consider any MD as experts in nutrition, while nothing could be further from the truth. Unless they have pursued it as an independent study after med school they typically know very little about nutrtition. But people love to let "authorities" do their thinking for them. I am in my seventies and Hyman looks like he could be my father. I do not eat animal products, I lift weights, and can keep it up all night. That's my anecdotal two cents. I get plenty of protein from plant sources and the belief that animal sources of protein are necessary for healthy aging is proven nonsense.
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  2571.  @Will-t2h1u What doctors think doesn't matter. What happens when meat is digested does. And it's not good.
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  2572. ​ @panes840  Much as I appreciate Dr. Greger you will not find the most important facts about sulforaphane on his site, but you will find them here, in an interview with the world's authority on sulforaphane: Jed Fahey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PNGxNzogOY&t=30s And the most important fact about the type of broccoli that contains significant amounts of sulfrorphane. Unfortunately the strain of broccoli that is high in it is owned by Bayer, the former Monsanto, and you cannot buy the seed. But you can buy stabilized sulfrophane as BROQ from France or in a supplement from Thorne which has tested as legit as opposed to most sulfrophane supplements.
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  2573.  @californiabudreviews758  -- unmitigated nonsense
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  2574.  @jenniferbowerman2573  Yeah, unfortunately being carnivore is not a "you do you" kind of thing. It is literally a destructive force, and not only in climate change. Take a walk through a slaughter house Ms "I do me" -- It ain't just you, you are doing. And for no reason. Any benefit found on a carnivore diet is simply because of the elimination diet aspect of it. Human digestion of meat releases toxins and stimulates the generation of endotoxins, it doesn't matter what you believe, or the fact that you are addicted to the heme iron in carcass juice, and the addranaline like effect of the ammonia released in your blood stream that force a mechanical rationalization like any addiction, and how you are screwing your entire system up by losing microbiome diversity. You will now suffer horrible effects if you start eating green again, and will have to slowly over years reestablish the ability to properly benefit from the microbiome without bloating or whatever. You just keep doing you dear -- bless your little heart.
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  2575. Ford is 128 billion dollars in debt and losing money on every EV they have built, mostly in Mexico. Tesla has over 25 billion in cash, virtually no debt, and the Tesla's sold in the USA have more American built content and labor than any other auto sold in America including gas vehicles and they make more on every EV than any other company in the world. It doesn't take a genius to see where this is going.
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  2576. Not just Portugal, Switzerland ended their criminal junky problem by offering free drugs in clincil settings along with the offer of therapy. 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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  2577. Tech anticipation is a fools game. You can delay a purchase forever waiting for the next big thing. The tech will keep advancing forever.
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  2578. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  2579. So it seems.
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  2580. It's not where you are it's what you are, unless you ain't worth the life you have, then where you are is very important.
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  2581. Nope, not close to saturation. Just not enough Teslas shipped to fulfill the market.
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  2582. The serious study of utter nonsense. What a waste of your life.
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  2583.  @majhiggins  I will remember that. lol
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  2584.  @johnalniel1037  I am sure you do not believe that your comment is stupid beyond belief: but is is.
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  2585.  @johnalniel1037  An entire movie has been made about Godzilla. I suggest you start preping for the day he comes to your town. Because you sure ain't gonna ever realize just how stupid your comments are.
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  2586. When are these media fools going to learn that the only appropriate response to nonsense spouted by a malignant egomaniac is to laugh in their face? . . . no balls, or ovaries, or brains, as the case may be. This man is a walking talking joke, and not the clever kind, but the stupid irrelevant kind like 'knock knock" "Whose there?" "Ass hole." "Ass hole who?" "Ass holden this office until the public gets a clue and puts me behind bars!" He is a distraction so that the power elite can dismantel all the benefits and ideals that so many millions have striven and struggled and at times died for: a clown a puppet of the one percent and the would-be royals. . . . The wall street and corporate gods that rule you without your knowledge or consent.
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  2587. It's nothing personal (except if you have a conscience) it's like rock-paper-sicssors: Trump beats Biden, Bernie beat Trump, Warren cries, "wee wee wee all the way home." Mixed metawhores: always a delight.
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  2588. Good points.
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  2589. You don't really believe that Gordon puts his own money where his mouth is -- aye?
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  2590. Declaring that the fit and finish on a magazine car is excellent: is meaningless. They make sure the cars that they lend to the auto enthusiast media are specially sorted out. And Munro knows this, but still raves about it -- something askew there.
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  2591. Come on, the only reason he isn't conceding is because he is in terror of being called DONALD LAME DUCK for a few months. His ego just couldn't stand it. He may have to make the boom booms to distract us, so don't call him Donald Lame Duck. Even if he is.
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  2592. Trump is doomed, and Tesla is not going to do good in a recession. The last man to down size the CIA was Jimmy Carter. Many of the operatives that were given the boot had expertise in destabilizing governments and targeted economies, as evidence by their previous work in South America, and elsewhere. Many of these operative went to work for the RNC. Just by "coincidence" the Arabs embargoed oil, just by coincidence the US embassy in Iran was attacked and the staff taken hostage. Just by "coincidence" the rescue mission was a failure. Just by coincidence the US economy went into a tail spin and there were lines of cars for miles at gas stations IF that had any gas, and lines around the block at the SS offices nationwide. Just by coincidence the hostages in Iran were released the day Ronald Reagan won the election. Just by coincidence the man who had been the head of the CIA was his vice president, and the future POTUS. You are already seeing where the economy is going. Get ready for a real recession. One that will make the public squeal with pain. That is how they got rid of Carter, who was at least an honest man, and that is how they are going to get rid or Trump and his flunkys -- wholesale. I will be amazed if both Trump and Vance live for another four years. They done F'd with the wrong people, and you can already see where this is going. Unfortunately we will all feel the pain until Trump and his band of stumble bums is gone. Cause they are going to wreck the economy, and in his ignorance Trump is even helping them.
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  2593.  @czgator9000 SNL hasn't been funny for thirty years.
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  2594. Yeah right, I bet a year ago you were still claiming that the Cybertruck was a fraud and would never be produced, and now it is the number one selling electric pickup in the USA, outselling the combined sales of all other companies. But why let facts hamper your attitude. If you knew anything at all about the latest Tesla FSD, you would know that this is just a baby step from where Tesla is right now.
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  2595. More Russian bull.
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  2596. False paradigm reported as fact.
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  2597. Rogan: "Why has there been no discussion on how to boost your immune system?" I don't know Joe, why would that be ignored with a virus that actually kills people because their immune system over responds? Do you get it?
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  2598. Not a problem, the only girl and boy racers to have a Tesla will have their parents Tesla and Teslas can already be speed restricted for different drivers via present software.
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  2599.  @brendanpells912  Hope they never do that, but instead continue to reduce the weight, and offer more performance options as packages. I think most of the people you are referring to as racers hate teslas for some irrational reason and buy ICE vetts and Dodge Demons and such, though I can see the distaste for how heavy EVs are in general.
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  2600.  @brendanpells912  Just buy a Leaf. Or an MG, there are plenty of other choices that fit your criterion. Or wait for the less expensive Tesla that may never appear.
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  2601.  @brendanpells912  For someone so concerned about safety, I find it amusing that you do not mind emitting carcinogenic exhaust fumes for yourself and everyone else to breath. I think perhaps your priorities are slightly skewed.
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  2602. Don't hold your breath. Reparations will never fly. The Congress will never go that way. Personally I am waiting for my reparation check from the Vatican, because the Roman's enslaved my Germanic ancestors. Same chance as American reparations: none.
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  2603.  @danolix  and how much is enough? hundreds? How will they bring it down? With gasoline? Get real. Maybe by jamming the treads up with hundreds of their skulls.
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  2604. How to explain Russian inexplicable behavior? Firstly you must pretend that you are not dealing with a nation as you expect them to be in the west. It is best if you imagine that you are dealing with a mob of drunk teenagers who have been left a pile of weapons and deadly toys to play with, and like to dress up like actual government officials and service men. But really they just want to drink and everything else is a side gig. Then most of their decisions will make sense. Then it is always important to understand the form of Russian humor. Take irony for instance. The Russian form of ironic humor is to accuse other countries of doing what they themselves are trying to cover up or hide. This is important because you can tell exactly what they are doing by just adding up whatever they are accusing others of doing. Then there is the map delusion. Don't get me wrong Russia has a huge amount of useless land, BUT Russia is not nearly as large relative to other countries as it appears on the map. This is because of the type of projection that is commonly used to transfer the outlines of countries from a sphere onto a plane. There are websites like Real Size, which allow you to superimpose the outlines of one country onto another. Soon as Russia is moved toward the equator it shrivels like a dick in an ice bath. Same thing happens to Canada and Alaska, but they didn't let the false sense of enormity inflate their puddin' heads like Putin did. Russia hates LBGTQand whatever, but all the hottest trannies on the internet are Russian. Go figure. . . . One or two of them even look like a young Vlad (or so I am told ;))
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  2605. And some of them are attempting to steal Tesla tech by any means available, even bribing vendors to sell them Tesla parts. China is defiantly a force to be reckoned with. Can Tesla -- preforming scrupulously by the rules out compete companies that will advance by any means possible? I am an optimist and believe it can. I think we will see the ultimate Elon jujitsu at play in this arena, which is way more impressive than the primitive physical martial arts. To me anyway.
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  2606.  @deezeed2817  lol that's funny. Not funny ha ha.
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  2607. Finland’s Electricity Prices Fall Below Zero --- Yep that green energy thing will never work, just ask Peter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbzwu7AExZM
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  2608. Republican and Democrats are both scum, but Republicans are that really putrid scum that indicates the need of a complete refitment. End campaign finance, end corruption.
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  2609. Good, I am ready to buy at every dip.
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  2610. Here is what happened: Bernie won is a landslide beyond all DNC expectations so they resorted to plan B. What is plan B? See the 2016 California primaries. Plan B is to cheat and lie as usual. Is there not one honest man is the position to bring these bastards to justice? I suppose not. It's all corrupt beyond redemption or reform.
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  2611. You are missing the real most important point: diesel exhaust is not only toxic it is carcinogenic, and bad for the environment as a whole.
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  2612.  @prism2451  If you ignore the demographic catastophe that it is facing.
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  2613.  @prism2451  They are deluded. China is less socialist than the USA, they have no social safety net at all. China is just another fascist regime posing as a socialist country.
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  2614. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. And you CNN, are a big part of it. In fact people will come to recognize that you are a key member of the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQ7Zo6m9yg
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  2615. About Aptera: you said. . . "They've got the right technology". Perhaps you do not understand that Aptera carries its motors as unsprung weight. This totally ruins the car's handling potential. There is a very good reason why people spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy carbon fiber wheels for hypercars: it is the most important factor for handling response. This is not just some minor issue that only boy racers care about. This engineering decision is so dumb it is almost miraculous. But then Sandy despite all his knowledge once suggested that instead of winding it's motors with carbon fiber, Tesla should weave a sleeve and slip it on. This was totally incorrect and would have negated the very reason it was done in the first place. This is the problem with accepting anyone as an authority who is not questioned. The decision to run the Aptera motors in the wheels was made so they could just buy off the shelf parts instead of producing a truly remarkable vehicle. If not for that I would order one to go with my long awaited cyber truck.
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  2616.  @jonsek  It's not "handling potential" it's straight up handing. Better not intend to drive this on anything but super smooth roads without any interesting curves or the limitations will become astonishingly apparent to anyone who knows how to drive. You will probably have lots of tire blow outs too because the tire are the only suspension for the motors and rebound over bumps or if you hit a curb head on or something couldl blow out your tires. And there is no reason to have gears or difs if two small motors are mounted inboard. The only thing you said that is true is that it will use up interior space, but it would not necessarily make it less aerodynamic. I am sort of irked about this because I had intended to buy one, but not with unsprung motors. I predict huge dissatisfaction because of this when people become familiar with its limitations.
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  2617. Wondering how if it possible that many superbly successful and otherwise normal and intelligent people can still be Trump supporters (or perhaps I should say believers) after his tens of thousands of lies and idiotic actions? Well this few minutes of an old Radiolab show about lying and self-deception may explain a lot. And I do mean A LOT. The blinding flash of the obvious starts at 46:57 -- though the entire show on deception is certainly entertaining, this little segment on self-deception is profoundly explanatory about Trump and politicians in general. Slide the slider forward to 46:57 and understand the mystery of the cult of Trump. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91612-deception
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  2618. The whole thing is a communist plot by greedy capitalists. Go Trump! And go get 'em delta.
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  2619. That we are effecting climate change is beyond doubt. As to whether of not in the grand scheme of deep time this will be a negative for human life is not known. NOT KNOWN. If you are unaware of it, we are at the end of an inter-glacial period. I prefer global warming to the coming ice age if it is actually a choice. But the truth is that Winter IS Coming unless something staves it off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztninkgZ0ws
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  2620. Yeah there are just loads of elitist in the street. As Bugs would say "What a maroon."
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  2621. The Jimmy Dore Show's priorities are so much righter then DN.
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  2622.  @christinewyatt246  There is now evidence that people who have tested positive for covid and later got a course of vaccines have a kind of pan SARS immunity, that neither those who were only vaccinated nor those who tested positive and gained some natural immunity exhibit. Almost makes me wish I had tested positive without symptoms before I got the vaccines.
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  2623. Depends on where in the US you are.
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  2624. Bloomburg wants to "follow the democratic rules" at the convention. The DNC has amply demonstrated time and again that they have no rules other than money makes or remakes their rules and they rule by cheating cheating cheating. Odds are one hundred percent that the democratic party will again cheat Bernie by the use of super delegates the rules of which were put in place to strip any semblance that their lying cheating process had to fairness and real democracy. The very name of the democratic party is a farce and a sickening irony. They have no legal obligation to be fair and democratic in their process and they have no intentions of it. They will bring the party to an end because they are more republican and right wing than Eisenhower was and Nixon would now be a flaming socialist. The right wing has gone insane and now firmly believes the lies of their conman in chief and his master Robert Mercer the brilliant crackpot sociopath who among other plutocrats, rules them from the shadows.
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  2625. . . . Polarization used by the "same bird" to keep the puddin' heads at each others throats over meaningless social signaling issues, so the "same bird" can continue to feather it's barbed wire nest. Right wing/ left wing extremists, same gamed idiots in different costumes.
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  2626. These are the most important videos you will see this week. Trump will not concede and here is why: he has NO honor and he can still win. Here is how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w The greater question is why anyone who is against the kleptocracy that rules the USA would celebrate. The real Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSk99eE3Kg
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  2627. He never drank Flint water. He pulled the old switcheroo and drank water from air force one.
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  2628.  @haleybrown2836  If you count out one dollar each second 24/7 it would take you like 132,000 years to count to a trillion. Something close to that.
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  2629. The stupidity of almost all of these comments bodes ill for the future of humanity.
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  2630. It's only natural to trust the words of a man who has lied to you over 16,000 times since his election. Shhh, let's all listen to Donald. Now pay close attention to those all-important micro-expressions. If you can't see many it's because he is totally self-deluded. He believes his own bull. Keep pulling in that dark money Donny -- Mercer will pat your head when you cause the ruin of the government.
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  2631. Then so should the Celts, and the Franks, the Huns, the Vandals, the Mongols, the Bohemians, and every other nation and kingdom that was conquered historically. The descendants of those peoples are still around too. But that would just be stupid. Get a brain.
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  2632. You think PZ reads these comments? . . . 🤣
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  2633.  @wallaceahtone6149  Well if people started being able to discrimiate between facts and disinformation it would suprise me. Like that bimbo that was one of trumps lawyers said in her defense against Diebold's suit against her. "Only an idiot would believe what I was saying." Or words to that effect. People are continously bombarded with disinformation from an omnipresent media mindfuck and are obviously not intelligent enough to tell shit from shinola. And democracy now is part of the problem because they shamlessly spin the news. Though they do it less than most and seem to have some compassion for the less fortunate even if it is misleading.
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  2634. Well when I was a teenager meth was actually legal. It was called diet pills and some of them were quite awesome containing multiple amphetamines along with a trank and a full days supply of vitamins -- really, it was calle obadrine. But you are correct amphetamines are very destructive if used habitually, and especially if some idiot makes them out of sinus meds.
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  2635.  @justinhamill7608  I was just wondering if the frozen wild blueberries I buy are poisoned with any pesti or herbi cides this morning. Hoping this is not the case, but I am suspicious and may have to delete them. I only use them in my organic oatmeal groats in the morning. Everything else is organic blueberries from Aldi's or wherever they show up the least expensive. It's a damn shame that we have to act like the food industry is trying to poison us, because it is. And people are still wondering if the carcinogenic and toxic fumes that they spew into the air with gas and hybrid vehicles is any problem. While millions of people die each year because of all this crap in our environment, and never know why.
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  2636. Comment part 2 However here are some of my thoughts on democracy and how it can work. In observing certain social animals, like ant colonies and bee hives, it is apparent that certain capacities are actualized of which the individual animals themselves are incapable. These are sometimes referred to as emergent functions, some of which are assumed to come about because of the activation of certain epigenetic potentials in the genome given the proper protein to initiate them. This is debatable, however the functions themselves are easily observable. Humans are also capable of emergent functioning -- in a political sense. Here is an example of this in action: We are all familiar with a type of game of chance that one sometimes comes across at a charity event or perhaps a county fair. There will be a large urn or similar vessel and it will contain tens of thousands of jelly beans or marbles or gumballs or something. And typically you make a donation or buy a "chance" and then you make a guess as to how may jelly beans are in the urn. Of course it is impossible to count the jelly beans and it is also very difficult to even make any kind of accurate estimation. So usually thousands of people will make a guess and put it in a box and then the most accurate guess wins a prize, like a car or something. Well as it turns out: the average of all of the guesses is almost always (actually "always", but I am hedging) more accurate than the best guess. . . . Now it is true there is no one obscuring parts of the urn or extolling the virtues of certain sets of numbers or otherwise lying to the guessers with false narratives about the jelly beans or the process of guessing. Of course there is no Donald Trump, or FOx news, or CNN spinning false narratives about the jelly beans or telling you that there is a large grapefruit unseen in the middle of the urn that is displacing patriotic American jelly beans, so it is not exactly the same thing as a democratic vote on legislation or some other political decision. Yet I do believe that this human potential could be brought to bear in a political scenario: if, for instance, something like fines and imprisonment or perhaps huge fines and banishment where the consequence for presenting anything but verifiable facts as evidence in arguing for or against any particular collective democratic decision. And perhaps, just maybe this collective talent could also be mobilized on a level of finer granularity by calling into question the false narratives and other deceptions of the power-elite and their legions of sycophantic wannabes to themselves be objects of observation and study as is now happening via the decentraization of political commentary and criticism made possible by the internet. So, potentially, democracy may still have some very significant tricks up it's venerable sleeve, only this time, tricks for the good instead of the in the service of evil. And perhaps some day we could be supplemented in these quandaries by the kind of advanced AI and machine learning that can beat the champions at GO. A game that seems to me, to be very like our political process. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. We have known forever that it would be best to get all money out of politics if the most ethical and fair government is what you want. We have known forever that proportional representation is superior to winner-takes-all seesaws. We have known that the banks are incapable of regulating themselves and that the wealth of the nation is being sucked up by the military industrial professional political worker complex, that the drug war is a farce that has created the first billionaire criminal organizations. In our hollowed out lives, news has become entertainment. And the fantasyland they present to the public is a poor substitute for what should have been the golden destiny of mankind on earth and in regions beyond.
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  2637. This is why I will never vote for a Democrat as the lesser-of-two-evils again. Corruption on steroids: evidenced below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDTetc10Q_E
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  2638.  @mrsam0496  Yes it would become peaceful, after one of the millions of nut-jobs that had been brainwashed by religious paradigms had decided to enter paradise and take everyone with them, after the nuclear winter had subsided, and all meaningful human civilization has ended. Of course not so peaceful for those caught by jaguars, lions, tigers, leopards, polar bears, and orcas that will have once again assumed top positions on the food chain. You could definitely count on peace by increasing the number of mental defectives in control of the destiny of earth. The bright side of the whole thing is that in a few decades when the dust has settled on the vistas of ruin and corpsicles, the Martian colonists could return to the mother world with their scientific, RetroConfucian Meritocracy and AI hybrid civilization to try it one more time with intelligence, science, the mission of extending human consciousness, striving for a golden destiny among the stars, and sanity as guiding principles.
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  2639.  @harleyquinn8202  It is quite clear historically that Japan never got paid back for the horrors they committed, even if you include the nuclear detonations (which were actually less destructive than the mixed incendiary and HE bombing raids that took place and would have continued unabated. I think your comment is so stupid that I now regret the seconds I spent on it.
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  2640. I have close relatives that work in magic eight ball design. Their resounding comment when people predict the future is that these prognosticators still have fundamental space/time issues to even have a clue about. Baring the use of extra-galactic remote tachyonic technology leveling surveys or EGRTTLS (which will not be developed until 2134) they assert quite confidently that accurate predictions of future events, even for those who unlike you relatives have all associated data on a subject including unpublished, unreported, and secret proprietary data, have no ability to predict the future more accurately than the original Magic Eight Ball.
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  2641.  @kaxerrr  Even in ancient Greece, it was known that power should never be given, or granted, or even lent, to someone who seeks power. A leader should have to be dragged from is ordinary life, and installed in power over others against their wishes, and even then for a limited time. Many of the heroes of the Roman Republic were fabled to be of this type.. The last person in the world to be granted the inedible power of the modern state is someone who thirsts for it. To me: Trump, Biden, Sanders etc, their all the same. They are unworthy. I really think the only way out of this, is to use the methods of scientific testing, and virtual scenarios, to determine who is most fit for various positions and to have regular government upgrades, in which all citizens are tested and the most effective installed in a position until someone scores higher. There are all kinds of details, and concerns of fairness that could easily be overcome with today's technology. In the future it may be more effective to have AI determine policy which would be tested in a quantum simulation and then voted on by the people who score highest in the tests for various offices. Not likely. but that is probably the most effective approach to govern at this point. Democracy can work, and provide synergistic results due to epigenetic propensities of humans, but it cannot work in an atmosphere of 24/7 lies and disinformation, and the general obscuration of facts and evidence, like we now have.
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  2642.  @MrDXRamirez  They are not part of the power elite -- why else?
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  2643.  @MrDXRamirez  Yep, and you have 40million people who believe that Trump won the election and that there is a huge difference between the dems and repubs. As Gurdjieff said, "Even God has no defense against stupidity."
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  2644.  @shamicentertainment1262  Can't reason either.
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  2645. So obviously Europeans should just move to equatorial Africa to cool off.
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  2646.  @chrism7969  To hell with the wall they should be doing stuff that the Army Corp of Engineers used to do.
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  2647.  @Starsurfer74  . . . "defend your country in areas where they are really needed?" You mean now? At this moment? You think the troops in action are defending you? Man have you swallowed the cool-aid. As for your other comment: I always like it when someone displays both their ignorance and inability to do the least little search before they spout their knee-jerk opinions. It's not an either or thing, they used the legion and slaves. From Alberto Yagos on Quora -- literally the first response on Google. Are you that lazy? . . . 'With so many engineers and men trained, when they made a Roman permanent fort they also built accessory buildings like baths, headquarters and even civil construction like several buildings outside the fort (cabannae), the ones for the legionaries’ families (before and after they were allowed to marry), aqueducts, bridges, roads, amphitheaters… On his return Corbulo set his legionaries to digging a massive canal between the rivers Meuse and Rhine. The legions were immensely useful for infrastructure development; trained legionaries could be used directly for tasks as road building or seconded to lend their skills to civic provincial projects. For example, legionary engineers generally oversaw the civilian construction of amphitheatres and aqueducts The Roman Empire Parallels from Britain (where ancient timbers are better preserved) suggest that although the Romans were aware of the properties of various types of wood, military construction usually relied on local timber, even if inferior; from this we may infer that army units were probably cutting their own lumber. Vegetius (writing in the fourth century, but the statement may be true for earlier periods as well) confirms that 'the legion also has carpenters... and the other artisans necessary for the building of winter quarters'. Moreover, soldiers were undoubtedly utilised to assist in civil construction; we know for instance that the Fourth and Sixth Legions built roads in Navarra under Augustus, while the Seventh Legion helped construct the bridge at Aquae Flaviae in 79. Roman Spain (Routledge Revivals) Amphitheatres... many legionary examples produce direct evidence of having been constructed by the army Handbook to Roman Legionary Fortresses According to van Enckevort (2005), only the army and not the local elite possessed the means to transport the building stone used in these projects, and this claim appears to be borne out by the use of different forms of stone in foundations postdating Legio X Gemina's departure. Therefore, the occurrence of legionary roof tiles, Grauwacke, tuff and Norroy limestone in public buildings of the early second century is strong evidence that army personnel had a role in civil construction during the same period. Domestic Cattle and Economic Change in the Roman Period Lower Rhineland: The Civitas Batavorum The discovery of Legio XX stamped tiles referring to Viducius at a rural tile-works in Merseyside confirms him as a legionary contractor; close examination of tile sizes shows that contractors appear to have played a significant part in the production for at least two of the legions. Legionary Tile Production in Britain | Britannia | Cambridge Core The city of Timgad (Algeria) was supposedly mainly built by the army:
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  2648.  @chrism7969  You know Chris I am getting tired of people who display their ignorance without taking one minute to find the facts . One minute of effort and you would realize that you are incorrect about the Corp of Engineers and the Roman Legions both, and a little discernment would tell you that I am not concerned about the wall but a general policy of public works. Get a brain already. From the very first parargraph of the very first Google returns, you lazy inept excuse for a thinking being. The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)[5] is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel,[1] making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies. Although generally associated with dams, canals and flood protection in the United States, USACE is involved in a wide range of public works throughout the world. The Corps of Engineers provides outdoor recreation opportunities to the public, and provides 24% of U.S. hydropower capacity
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  2649. Disclosure missing? Equals free rifle.
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  2650. Bullets and bombs care little about your linguistic sensitivities, which ultimately mean nothing on or off the battlefield.
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  2651.  @kimberlychodur3508  So you are saying that the people who were on pain meds did not turn to street drugs because the government changed the requirement to obtain pain meds. You are incorrect.
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  2652. More like 1984 than Brave New World.
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  2653. Yeah Peter; that is not the "bleeding edge". If you want info on the bleeding edge go here: https://www.youtube.com/@AnastasiInTech/videos
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  2654. Apparently reforming their own culture is not one of them.
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  2655. FRANKFURT -- Tesla was the biggest winner in Germany last month as electric cars continued to gain market share in Europe's largest vehicle market. Tesla's new-car sales grew 234 percent as the wider German market plunged 32 percent to 198,258 registrations, according to data from the KBA motor authority.
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  2656. In the end this will be good for Bernie, just like Warren's nonsense.
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  2657. Came across an old video of a comedian back in 1990 who talks about a Trump presidency as part of his monologue. The audience found this so absurd that they thought it was hilarious. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeahAokOxfk&t=71s
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  2658. Well the invasion has begun. I think that in general, news sources have it backwards. Russia holds the financial hammer, not NATO, but Russia's military is not all that. I think the state of California alone could wipe the floor with them. Unfortunately for Ukraine, California is far far away.
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  2659. Goldman Sachs endorses Trump. Robert Mercer's puppet man.
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  2660.  @duncan.o-vic  ACtually not, your stance is rooted in ignorance.
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  2661. Because they are the only ones that can see what Trump actually is.
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  2662.  @donHooligan  I suggest you hold your breath until this happens.
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  2663. Get ready for tweets from THE REAL AMERICAN GOV.® in exile -- from Mar-a-Lago.
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  2664. Look, I know that there are lots of Elon haters and lots of ludites, but this is something that even those with the smoothest brains should try to understand. There is Tesla, and there is all the other "also rans". Tesla is the only EV OEM that is making a profit and they have been making such a good profit per unit that they are able to reduce their prices to levels that no other company that makes an acceptable EV can even dream of. That is Tesla's plan. It has always been it's plan. What is the best selling model car (both EV and ICE) in the world? -- Tesla model Y. What is the best selling EV in China? -- Tesla model Y. What is the best selling EV in Europe? Tesla model Y. What is the best selling car of any kind in California? -- Tesla model Y. What is the safes car in a collision? -- Tesla. What car brand has the highest level of owner satisfaction? -- Tesla. What car brand has the highest owner loyalty? Tesla. What car sold in America has the most American content and labor? -- Tesla. What company has the most millionaires working on the assembly lines due to stock options? -- Tesla. There is such a divergence between Tesla and everyone else that most of them are just giving up and trying desperately to get people to believe that it is because EVs are not viable. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you buy anything but a Tesla anywhere in the world it can only be out of ignorance. Companies that were losing 40-200k on every EV they sold (most of them even BYD had to cook the books to show a profit and they are the only other one in the money on each sale, or so they say) cannot afford to lose even more by reducing their prices to give the appearance that they are competitive with Tesla even thought under the hood they are twenty years and two generations of tech behind and will never catch up because Tesla innovates much faster. When Toyota purchased and tore down a model Y they themselves said it was "a masterpiece of engineering" that they were not capable of duplicating. But they are trying to. Toyota is adopting Tesla's manufacturing tech as fast as it can, but they are trying, with no success, but much fantasy used as a delaying tactic. And what will all of Peter's quite dubious conclusions mean when a Tesla robotaxi appears and suddenly an EV is getting 500% more usage than a ICE car? The more you look into the actual facts, the more you will see that the future belongs to Tesla in a big way. And you naysayers will be just as happy as the rest of us when you finally wake up.
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  2665. You mean the USA gov is in a pretty sad state. America is doing just fine unless you think it is defined by a few blocks of degenerates living on the streets of SF and Philly.
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  2666. Maybe but I wish my BYD was doing as good as TSLA, and I wish both of them were doing as well a Nvidia
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  2667. This same complaint was aired by old people four thousand years ago.
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  2668. If only there were some kind of test people could take to tell if they are incredibly stupid.
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  2669.  @anarchisttechsupport6644  That could count as half the score: If you are committing a crime do you take a selfie? I like it. On the other hand maybe mandatory IQ tests the results of which would be tattooed on one's forehead if they score below 70. On second thought that would be an unjust comparison to morons, who are apparently exponentially more intelligent than Trumptards.
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  2670. I think it may have been framed by an automatic system.
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  2671. This election is firmly in the hands of the Millennials and younger people. If they vote for Bernie in the democratic primary, he will win the election. But will they get their heads out of their phones and facebook long enough to find out where and when to vote? And will they give up the video games and social media for the hour it will take to vote in the primary. And do they even know when their primary is? If they manage to overcome their almost total lack of activism Bernie will win. But remember the OK boomers shut down the war in Vietnam. The Millenials have done practically nothing that demands actual participation and doesn't involve a rage and molly. The Vietnam war would still be going on if it had been up to them. OK Millennials -- put up, or forever, shut the fuck up.
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  2672. If you know what is really going on; you know that this is Robert Mercer's budget.
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  2673. The USA supported the Mujahedin late in their war against the Soviets who invaded Afghanistan to prop up the Afghani communist puppet government. The Taliban arose from the displaced children of Afghans who fled to Pakistan during the Soviet invasion. They were housed in refugee camps the only escape from which was to enter one of the Saudi supported Wahhabi madrassas, were they were brainwashed and radicalized. Over the course of the Soviet occupation all of their means of aggression were overcome and defeated by the Mujahedin with the exception of the heavily armored helicopter gunships which were able to follow them into the mountains and attack isolated villages swiftly and without warning. When this final soviet advantage was overcome and the war became too expensive because of the US stinger missiles that were given to the Mujahedin, the Soviets pulled out. Over the next two years the Mujahedin themselves destroyed the abandoned Afghani communist government. The Mujahedin then fractured into different warlord gangs and fought among themselves. The Taliban (a word that means students) then returned and defeated the disunited warring factions and took over and instituted harsh sharia regulations on society.
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  2674. @Matthew Mueller The military does not use semi-automatic AR15s, that is what we are talking about, not .50 cal sniper rifles. The M16 is not semi. It has a full auto setting. 9mm is a handgun. What does that have to do with anything?
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  2675. @Matthew Mueller Yeah, I don't consider handguns weapons of war. Other than that only specialized sniper rifles are semi-automatic. Firearms that have a selector to fire full auto, bursts or semi are not semiautomatic firearms they are fully-automatic. Your arguments are tiresome, trite, and semantical and really amount to nothing worth noting. No country arms it's troops with semi-automatic firearms.
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  2676. @Matthew Mueller The fact remains that no country arms it's military with semiautomatic Armalite Rifles. If you really think that a select fire weapon is a semi-automatic firearm, try drilling the hole and dropping a select fire sear into an AR then go to the local BATF station and tell them it is a semi-auto. See what they have to say about it and write me from prison. You come off like someone who learned about firearms online or in games. You description of what an automatic weapon is is also incorrect.
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  2677. @Matthew Mueller Get real. This whole argument started with Klonoski's statement that the AR15s in civilian hands in the USA are "weapons of war". He said this repeatedly. I corrected him and you come along and say a select fire AR is a semi-auto. If it were, you could buy one. It is not and you can't unless it was manufactured before 1986, you pass a background check, pay the tax stamp and anti up the twenty grand that it would cost for just the sear. That's the law. Semiautomatic firearms are legal to make and sell, select fire firearms are not, unless it is sold to LE or to another class 3 manufacturer -- Why? Because they are fully-automatic weapons.
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  2678. @Matthew Mueller You got it backwards, it is an automatic weapon some of which have a semi-auto setting. Some also have a two or thee shot burst setting instead of semi-automatic. Warfighters also take knifes into battle. That does not make a knife a weapon of war. Like I said your arguments are semantical and trite and actually amount to nothing. What's you point? To be a puddin head? This dude repeatedly called the AR15s owned by civilians in the USA weapons of war. They are not. You point is trivial and meaningless.
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  2679. @Matthew Mueller Like I said little fella, your arguments are trivial and irrelevant. No army on earth sends men into battle with semi-automatic AR15s. That is what the original statement you are contending said. The fact that you can fire an m4 in a semi mode does not make it a semi-automatic firearm. Like I said ask BATF about that. They are the ones that write the laws about it. You are just denying the reality that AR15s are not a weapon of war any more than a more traditional looking semi-automatic firearm is. You can dwell on the trivial factors that are irrelevant to his erroneous statement only because your head is trivial and really idiotic.
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  2680. @Matthew Mueller You think I am concerned with what you said. . . I am not. I couldn't care less what you said. I was talking about what Kyle said. But you had to correct me with your insipid stupidity about semiautomatic firearms. Your an idiot who can't see the forest for the trees. But instead of realizing what the conversation is actually about, you insist on dwelling on meaningless details, like m4 are select fire and therefore can fire semiautomatically. No shit Sherlock, did your mama teach you that? Or that troops carry semi auto side arms that they can use to blow their own heads off if all else fails, because they ain't gonna penetrate even the weakest body armor or even a ballistic helmet. So cheers to you for the blinding flashes of the obvious. Now go play with yourself little boy because I am tired of responding to an imbecile who doesn't understand what the conversation is about. It's not about what you want it to be about -- child -- it's about Kyles use of the term "weapons of war".
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  2681. At least Texas doesn't have any damn energy speculator thieves like the great Texas corp Enron, taking generating capacity off line to increase the price of electricity -- like California had to deal with because of Texan thieves and which led to deaths and the recall of a good governor.
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  2682. One can only question the fundamental moral adequacy of the people who knowingly and brutally decide to enforce the will of the kleptocrats that rule the USA.
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  2683. This is great on one hand and it is total bullshit on another. The world has to step up in Ukraine. The entire world is being held hostage by nuclear blackmail. It is the biggest bluff of all history. Russia will not use nukes unless Russia is attacked within it's boarders. When asked if he would respond in kind to a nuclear barrage that hit Russia if, it's response would end human civilization Putin responded, "Of course, what would the world be without Russia?" The correct answer to that question is: "Better". The world would be a better place for everyone without Russia, and though they don't know or won't admit it, it would be a better place for Russians most of all. Why have the leaders in the free world lost their balls, especially Germany, remember the wall, you gutless German leaders, remember the Berlin crisis, were would you be today if the free world had not defied the soviets? Still in hell eating bowls of tears that where.
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  2684. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases, Fact: the biiggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one action you are capable of that will help, because you have a flesh addiction that you cannot overcome: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death.
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  2685.  @samh628  I guess your must be right since you have the last word and I consider you too stupid to waste any more time on.
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  2686.  @eugenechun4140  Maybe it was Eugene. During the primaries Bidden invited the peoples of Central America to "surge" the boarder. I bet he doesn't remember that.
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  2687.  @silveriver9  Oh I agree about the fascism. The fact remains that the power-elites of all nations and all times -- given the potential -- acted exactly the same as the USA. And China, given the possibility will do the same. The power elite mostly consists of people who thirst after power. Such people should never be given power. So they do war upon each others peons under whatever guise of nations. But to them it's not the USA or China, it's the me in them, that they happen to call the USA or China.
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  2688.  delreydavid You mean that they no longer live in the wild. And like most species that inhabited earth at one point or another they are extinct in their wild form. But your argument is purely rhetorical and sounds like some pointless freshman debate point. It seems I was correct in assuming that you could not understand why your comment was ridiculous. A cow does not have a motivation to be used for food. Do you even comprehend how idiotic your statements are? And how they have nothing at all to do with the fact that eating meat is a huge negative as far as climate change is concerned. Of course you don't because you don't like this so you won't believe it. You no doubt have alternative "facts". Facts that you find agreeable but which have nothing to do with reality. What is the number one cause of the generation of green house gases? Not ICE vehicles, not coal fired electric plants -- animal agriculture.
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  2689.  @tomfromoz8527  Well I did answer you but it seems to have disappeared or been censored for some reason. You can just google it. Google how to switch to green energy in your state. I didn't even have to fill anything out to do this in PA. In fact I did it on the site run by my former electricity supplier. Good luck
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  2690.  delreydavid  I surely would not expect someone with the intelligence you exhibit to take facts seriously enough to modify their behavior for the benefit of humanity. You are surely right in the middle of the bell curve and like the middle of the bell curve think yourself special and real smart. And obviously you are the center of the universe and should not be expected to make even the most minuscule sacrifice to benefit others. Even though you consumption of meat is undermining your own health in dozens of ways I could not expect the center of the universe to give a darn about that because you are probably going to live after you die, so what does it matter? Hint: in case you haven't figured it out, there is no life after death, and in your case there is serious question as to whether there is life during life.
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  2691.  @brian2440  Thank you for your meaningless comment. I now pay a green producer for my electricity. I used to pay a fossil fuel based company. The same company still maintains the physical infrastructure. You should join a Freshman debating team because they are always bringing up pointless points as if they have some relevance to the matter at hand. The matter at hand is that my money, except for what goes to maintaining the distribution infrastructure and billing goes to a green company. Stay confused if you want to, it's free, and you seem to enjoy complicating the simple.
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  2692. Paradox? Irony? Oxymornical juxtaposition? First the report on the anti-immigrant white supremacy movement, then the anti-gun plug, then the reports of corruption so rampant in Mexico that journalist (and many others) are assassinated by government officials who are really working for drug dealers. Well if you don't see the cognitive dissonance, just let me ask. What is the difference between the USA and Mexico? Why is it that before the recent mass murder in El Paso (by a non-resident) that El Paso was (and probably still is) one of the safest US cities, and right across the boarder on the other side of the same accumulation of humans, is Juarez: one of the most dangerous cities on earth?  I am not offering any answers here only questions. What is the difference between the USA and Mexico? Our corrupt oligarch, power elite, and robber barons, need to be more circumspect. They can't just kill someone for personal reasons -- not to say this has never happened, but it is not nearly as common. I will submit one answer for your approval. If all drugs were to be decriminalized in the USA, and treated as the medical and psychological problems that they are (for some), and perhaps even establish sanctuary zones, where people could do all the drugs they want and buy them from drug stores over the counter. Don't you think that that would put the end to the billions of dollars that end up in criminal hands and corrupt everything from our own federal agencies and military, to the banking system, to small town cops, down and out tradesmen, etc, etc, and it's all just puritanical nonsense. I know, it's hard to think outside the box when thinking is the box, but give it a try.
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  2693. Don't forget, the kickbacks, the free demos, the special hand built magazine cars that are given for long term testing with free gas, the ad dollars, the all expense paid junkets to preview models, all of which Tesla does not do, and all the other OEMs do.
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  2694.  @keithnance4209  That is good advice, especially since people have been making 4 or 5k over list flipping Teslas in the private market. But somehow I don't think that he will heed it.
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  2695.  @cyndilopez5302  Tell that to the CIA.
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  2696. As long as people believe some words have evil magic and teach that to their kids, their superstition and immature emotional reactions should be respected or at least handled in a less antagonistic manner. You have people who are offended because they believe in evil magic words, and you have people who are offended by their offense and make stupid signs. The whole thing is insane to Mr. Spock.
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  2697.  @aurelio-reymilaorcabal9669  I've had BYD for years. There are other EV related stocks that have done much better for me. Though BYD, and GGPI, XPEV, may do better in the future, if the geopolitical situation does not deteriorate. Personally I like NVDA, and REMX performance better than some of the pure EV plays.
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  2698.  @JoelBergmark  It's funny that to my knowledge their has been one battery fire death in a Tesla that was driven into a tree at ninety miles an hour by a drunk driver. This was reported on the cable news channels on an hourly basis. Of course that same year over three hundred and fifty people died in ICE fires in the USA and there were over a hundred thousand fires reported in ICE in the USA alone, yet there was not one mention of this in the same media that obsessed over the Tesla fire. If they are so "explosive" where are all the deaths? The news would love to know, so it could punish Tesla for not paying to advertise with them.
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  2699.  @Roshiyu  That was sarcasm. Tesla has absolutely no interest in Bolivia, although partisan puddin' heads will believe the rumors that it wants Bolivian lithium. Tesla gets none of its lithium from Bolivia, but has huge interests in Australia, which makes far more sense logistically, politically, and Lithium Australia just invented a process that derives 95% of the lithium from raw materials without heat and far less pollution. If I were Tesla I would buy that company yesterday. That's the problem with Twitter, sarcasm and irony are often taken for their opposite. So that is what about Bolivia, which was years ago, and was deleted because it was misunderstood: apparently by people just like yourself. I am still waiting for an example of how he "normalized hate towards vulnerable people". I mean you have to be so much of an idiot to hate someone so much that you go back into his college days and try to justify your own image that you have projected onto someone who is just a brilliant but goofy anomaly with asbergers, that I find amusing and actually a sign of hope that the younger generation can actually do significant meaningful things. You people really need something, I don't know what, but you are blind to the great things this goof has done and pull up every bit of minutia that doesn't fit in with you hobbled idea of what a perfect human would do. What the hell have you done? Maybe that's the question you should be asking yourself.
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  2700. I can imagine an alternative that is outside of the usual: capitalism, communism, socialism, anarchism ruts. OK well anarchism may not be a rut, and in a sense it is almost as if an underlying subtle substrate of anarchism may be both present and necessary for the vitality of the other isms, but it seems to me that a purely anarchist state, or region, if you prefer, would be at the mercy of nations that are otherwisely organized. First of all, I mention in the spirit of full disclosure that I find government and it's mechanics boring, and somehow grey and depressing, and consider the people who have a desire to acquire temporal power over the physical existence of others as sick, deeply self-deluded individuals. I think that in general our leaders, in whatever flavor basically suck ass when it comes to administering a government. We are told that governments are the most dangerous entities on earth, not to other governments or other peoples, but to their own people. But of course it is not governments, no matter the formal codification of society in the form of laws and regulations, but the people who enact same, supposedly for the benefit of society, but more realistically in the service of their own organically pragmatic predilections, whether apparent as in the case of libertarians, and various utilitarian movements, or subtle and convoluted and perhaps even unconscious as on the part of various idealists, and utopians. Anyway, enough of this and to the point. I suggest a governing system in which the body of government employees, whether a janitor or the chief executive, is chosen by testing and continual performance review. Sort of a Techno-Neo Confucianism where anyone who is able to score higher on a series of tests that are generated by machine learning logarithms to optimize a governing system that is entirely relative to an established constitution or declaration of stated national goals, such as the optimal health wealth and well-being of all citizens or the earliest possible establishment of an extra-planetary colony that is self-sustaining, or some other orientation or constellation of orientations that is established by and modified by the adult populace with varying degrees of voting powers, which degree would also be determines by a test designed to test the intelligence, knowledge and correlation to reality of their internal conceptions. They would be voting directly only for the goals and general prime directives of the nation and not the leaders or manner in which these goals are pursued except in so far as they have established restrictions on such pursuits, such as environmental regulations and standards of dignity and freedom regarding all individuals. New and future technology will allow earthlings to establish a society that is superior to any that humans themselves are capable of designing the social and physical dynamics and details of. Thusly the human race will expand into the limitless resources of the solar system and beyond, to evolve in concert with our technology to a destiny which is presently beyond the capacity of even the most creative futurist to imagine. In such a system, the tests for positions of higher responsibility would be complex and not limited to written exams, but would include virtual reality scenarios, real world assessment and performance review, as well as extreme depth of psychological testing. I might add that in regard to such "higher" positions it may well be determined and required that it would be necessary for them to experience a mental state of awareness that is beyond the consensus thought-centric and quite mechanical mental processes of humanity, whether by psychedelic agents or some other mode of transcendence. In addendum: democracies do work, I should say "can work", this is illustrated by the fact that if a problem is too complex, such as guessing the number of jellybeans in a huge urn. If enough people guess, say tens of thousands, the median of all the guesses is always more accurate than any single guess. Ok theoretically a single guess can be just as or more accurate than the median of all guesses, but not very friggen often and it is just luck. Now if you have some agency that obscures the urn or finds a means of exaggerating certain qualities or merely using persuasion to misrepresent the number of jelly beans this will obviously fuck things up. This is analogous to the present state of the world with regard to the disinformation and propaganda generated by all manner of sources like Fox News, or any news outside of peer reviewed journals and even then. . . . So of course in this society, as it should be in ours, the penalty for knowingly reporting inaccurate information as fact would be death. No excuses.
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  2701. Yeah they probably copied it from the USA, who has been using it in real conflicts for decades.
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  2702.  @jmhorange  If you haven't noticed: as is true of all governments, what the USA states and what it actually does are frequently two different things.
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  2703. Thinking they are really special is what makes people common as dirt. It's the Special Class, we're all idiots, using our capacity for symbolic cognition for nonsense, entertainment, and self-aggrandizement instead of real things in the real world. The real world is the world that doesn't disappear when nobody is thinking about it like would be the case with religion for instance. Know how to fix a fuel injection system and you know something, know the Bible, Koran, or the history of Spiderman chapter and verse and you know nothing real.
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  2704.  @angloaust1575  This is not a civil war -- einstein -- only brain dead morons who believe nonsense think it is.
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  2705.  @dalecrocker3213  In Russia, in peace loads of people get murdered by the state. That is a very good reason for putting an end to the Russian insanity once and for all.
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  2706.  Rico Thampaty  You obviously do not realize that the Excalibur can out distance all Russian artillery. So it doesn't matter what the Russian artillery does. Russia would have to use guided missiles and they are almost out of them. Even better would be if Norway gave some Nammo ramjet guided munitions, they have a range twice that of any Russian Artillery. One shot one kill is far superior to spray and pray. And if you haven't noticed after the 777s fire they move, and the Russians cannot respond fast enough even if they could reach them.
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  2707. More probably: gold would become near worthless and nothing would change except people who invested in gold at old prices would lose most of their money. Of course all of Congress will have sold off their gold holdings because of reports by the agents that have been following Peter and his curious and quite suspicious behavior of apparently hiking in the wilderness, alone, everywhere on earth, and doing god knows what, under the cover of a video blog.
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  2708. Old subject lots of comments. Here's my two cents for posterity (because I doubt if any humans will read it. It being a 2 years old question). Ok, this is not one subject but several. I will only talk about entering a corner, with no traffic in front of you and little concern for pedestrians or police. Also you are not on a race track, but having a spirited drive alone on an appropriate road, like in the coastal range in Kali or the Appalachians on a two lane black top, something like that. This is how I "engine brake" in that sort of situation, and it has served me well for over fifty years of using the public highways as my own personal billions dollar amusement ride. In the appropriate situations of course. This is done in one very quick smooth action. I depress the clutch and put the gear shift in neutral. I sharply blip the throttle and as the engine is coming back down from the peak of the rev, I downshift when the revs match the gear. That is, there is no clutch feel at all of the engine catching up to the gear speed or visa versa. They just match, no slipping at all. If you have never gotten effective with this technique it can probably be done much faster and smoother than you imagine. This affords an initial state where in nether the clutch nor the gear box is strained but rather have almost retained a constant state of equilibrium, except of course that I am now in a lower gear that is engine breaking at a higher rate. It is also handy for exiting the turn under power. I have always called this double-clutching. In my old Willys Jeep it was the only way you could shift without grinding, and in my more sporting cars it seems fun and effective and definitely preserves the synchronizers from explosion. Not for everyone I suspect, but I usually bother to double-clutch when driving attentively and the curves are sharp enough to inspire down-shifting. On the other subject he mentioned, that is, long grades: If alone in the mountains, which is a frequent situation. I like to crest the mountain slow enough and combine that with a gear that will allow me to not use my brakes at all. I usually do this in neutral and just ride my kinetic wave, unless the grade is so long that I will enter any curves on the downside at a speed that would necessitate braking, then I use a gear and usually put it in neutral part way down the mountain in order not to waste all the energy I put into climbing the hill. This has become a real tactical game with me. How can I roll down the mountain most efficiently, energy-wise, without taking the curves so fast that I have to use any braking, engine or wheel.
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  2709. Probable outcome of the student outrage about firearm availability: another windfall for arms and ammunition dealers and manufacturers. Due to perceived threat to the possibility of firearm acquisition, people who never would have otherwise considered such a purchase will once again rush to purchase firearms for fear of a future prohibition, and sporting enthusiasts, and militia types, will stock up even more than they already have. Improbable outcome: Love and sanity wins out, and people who really need defense against unlawful aggression are provided with truly effective non-lethal means of defending themselves, and hunting firearms are restricted to rational limitations.
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  2710. Preferential granting of license to grow herb based on so-called race is bullshit. Preferential licenses should be given to anyone who was arrested for sale or possession of a herb less harmful than a cup of coffee. Now the bastards who were putting kids in jail for being kids are the same people who are making the big bucks in legalization. What is wrong with this picture?
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  2711. Same old dirty tricks over and over only now with apps. What a bunch of bull. Every time they pull this crap, I donate to Bernie.
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  2712. The real crime of it is that Dersohwitz will make money from this nonsense, and probably pay no penalty at all. These power-elite bastards just do fine no matter what they actually deserve. What Dersohwitz actually deserves for making such an idiotic statement in this hallowed setting is to be banished from the country for ten years with no employment by US firms and all his wealth should be impounded until he returns.
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  2713. Swedes also make a ramjet shell.
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  2714.  @philparrott4424  Apparently so do you.
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  2715. I agree, but also I consider the spread of a usable 100% charging profile to eat away a bit of the advantage of the nickel based chemistries at present.
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  2716. It's surprising that anyone with a conscience would even consider buying a VW after it became so clear what a bunch of cheating lying gangsters run it. They continue to sell polluting cars after cheating on the tests and you are stupitd enough to support this kind of fascist ethics. Not to even mention that the VW evs are vastly inferior to Tesla according to engeneering deconstruction by experts.
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  2717. @G M Jason Fenske and Sandy Munro -- just to mention two you can find on Youtube.
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  2718. That's funny, the report that I read claims that the average Tesla S that is eight years old still has over ninety percent left. Guess one of you is wrong. I would bet that it is you.
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  2719. The graph chart used to demonstrate that "lock down states" had higher death rates from covid than "non lock down states" actually proves nothing and is misleading in the extreme. I suggest you hire someone who actually understands statistics and fire the apparent intern who assembled this device of disinformation.
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  2720.  @flubby1982  I encourage you to short Tesla. You think that "Tesla is announcing horrid sales numbers"while Ford has grown double digits proves to me that you have no idea what you are talking about and just believe the FUD. Tesla is one of two OEMS that have grown so far this year, this is a fact. Tesla just had a record production in June. The highest it ever had, 157k units DELIVERED in June. Sort of doesn't fit in with your lie based theory. Of course if you are shorting Tesla you have good reason to spread lies. Go for it. Keep the price down, I love buying the dips. I missed buying today at 650 and now it is up to 692 so please do a better job spreading the FUD. Well there is always tomorrow and the hope to see 5. These prices are once in a lifetime opportunities and it's mostly thanks to liars like yourself and people who don't really know how to find facts and just go by the reports of an industry that runs on advertising sales, and Tesla does not advertise. So I give you credit for being dishonest instead of incredibly stupid and ill-informed.
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  2721. This is exactly correct.
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  2722.  @t.s.3669  Yeah, that's not what he is talking about. He is talking about the total integration of an exclusive system as opposed to one that must work with various configurations and iterations of hardware components. You looked at it too superficially, it's not about how you feel about the software, it's about what the software is required to do.
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  2723. Just confirmed: Tesla will build a new plant in India after much courting by Modi.
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  2724.  @paulburns1360  Ever noticed that both Trump and Hitler have the same little-piggy eyes?
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  2725.  DrMossydog  Thanks for that.
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  2726. 2:58 The US did not invent the Taliban. The USA supported the Mujahedin late in their war against the USSR and their support of the Afghani communist puppet government. The Taliban were the displaced children of Afghans who fled to Pakistan during the Soviet invasion. They were housed in refugee camps the only escape from which was to enter a Saudi supported Wahhabi madrassas were they were brainwashed and radicalized. When the war became too expensive because of the US stinger missiles that were given to the Mujahedin, the Soviets pulled out, the Mujahedin themselves destroyed the Afghani communist government. The Mujahedin then fractured into different warlord gangs and fought among themselves. The Taliban (a word that means students) then returned and defeated the disunited warring factions. Learn some history you punk. Your summation is entirely -- entirely incorrect. I pity the fools who take your imbecilic ranting seriously.
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  2727. You mean that Germany was cursed with an enormous amount of easily accessible coal that is the dirtiest and least energy dense type of coal. It ain't anthracite kiddo, its lignite, and it kills people every minute of the day, though it's victims are generally unaware from whence their maladies arise.
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  2728. When all cars are FSD and networked together then there will be no further need for traffic signals and traffic will flow, and the public will save billions of dollars on brakes, gas or kws, insurance, collision repair and wear and tear because no cars will be stopping when it is unnecessary. No more stops signs, no more red lights at 2 am with no other cars in sight.
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  2729. Most important news of the year: Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year. Corporate News = more spin based on corporate motives and crickets. LOOK! Click on this link and learn the truth about health care -- all genuine, all documented with interview. Not that facts matter to the Trump cultists but they may to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514
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  2730. Wow CNBC tells some truth about evs for a change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DbRyeZNRk
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  2731. Well that makes sense if you are hunting for illegals. To bad but why should they waste their time on unlikely suspects?
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  2732. This is laughable: Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians.
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  2733.  @jjamo1225  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide
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  2734. Clearly investment advice
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  2735.  @OptionsStrategist--JPT-DPAM  This was clearly presented as investment advice. Don't tell me to ignore my lying eyes. You made investment advice and you could probably be held responsible for it.
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  2736. All Ii know is that I haven't seen a good deal on a top tier Nividia GPU for years. Guess that says it all. First the crypto miners screwing up the gamer market, now AI. How can TSMC stock be in the doldrums when they can't fill their orders?
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  2737. It will only take two years for you to deny that you ever doubted the biggest value increase in history would take place. OF course your false prophecies will go unremembered -- by you at least.
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  2738. 2:47 . . . "It was almost inevitable that any civilization that began where the US did, regardless of people or ideology, would have eventually emerged as the dominant global superpower." -- Except: history, duh! This was one of the stupidest statements made in the entire history of the internet, and is in the running for the stupid statement of the decade award. Need I point out that the western European peoples who largely started the USA with all their warts and sins, were hardly the first group to begin a civilization in these lands, but were the only one that did lead to it becoming the center of a "superpower".
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  2739.  @winning_by_name  Why not get rid of all the illusions, and the errors in grammar? "Give them nothing! . . . Take from them Everything!" - Kurt Johnstad: script writer for The 300.
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  2740.  @winning_by_name  Frank didn't write the script.
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  2741. How typical: to accuse the person on earth most responsible for the possibility of a green future of being a climate denier.
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  2742. We know that Putin is enormously wealthy. That he uses those close to him to act as shills in legal scams involving dummy corporations and other ways to hide wealth. Elon Musk, who is supposed to be history's wealthiest man, has claimed that Putin is much richer than he is himself, and I believe this to be true. My question is how much of Putin's obscurated personal wealth is invested in US and NATO defense industries? I have heard rumors that it is quite a bit. But would even Putin engage in war to stimulate profits in the defense industries of his enemies to increase his personal wealth?
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  2743. We don't need foreign mafias to run us into the ground, we have our own banksters and power elite who are doing a fine job.
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  2744.  @vanrozay8871  Not only that but most of America between the coasts and college towns smells like cow manure. Or maybe that is the content of their brain dead right wing hate radio and fundamentalist idiot radio stations stinking up the air.
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  2745. Your video gives a totally erroneous zeitgeist of China's real situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww_LNrJYHs&t=126s
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  2746. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  2747. Simple: if you are not dealing with puddin' heads, nuclear arms have not caused war, they have mostly insured a reasonable degree of peace in the world since the forties. You have to really be blinded by disinformation to not be able to see that.
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  2748. Carbon fiber is often layed-up in resin but it is not a resin. You mean carbon fiber composite, not resin.
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  2749. hhh
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  2750. Luckily for Tesla, either party winning the election will provide further barriers to Chinese imports. Of course there is always the corruption of officials to worry about. And the Chinese do not play fair either, but they are making great EVs, many are more advanced than Tesla, and they are priced much lower.
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  2751. Consider this possibility: Artificial intelligence will have its origin from artificial life, not from a computer.
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  2752. So according to your math there are only 400 people living in the USA. In reality he could have given every one a dollar and a quarter and still had a hundred million dollars left over.
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  2753. 49:40 that is why most find relief from: the majesty of existence, the shocking implications of the mundane, and the incomparable unlikelihood of the real -- in beliefs that muddy up the whole proposition and provide longed for reversion to automatic functioning of the associative thought-centric and quite free-will devoid "mind". If the need to entertain any story, no matter how lame, becomes feverish, we could be in a good spot, we could be in a bad spot, dependent on the pointedness of our point of view. If things get too clear we can always turn on the TV, or read a metaphysical tome, or watch a YouTube video that stimulates associations we enjoy, or worst yet most soothing of all, simply reminisce with limbic seasonings. Keeps things in homeostatic balance: that being the glacial progress, with the emphasis on stasis, that evolution favors so much on the collective level -- not that it will do us any personal good outside of antibiotics and such.
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  2754.  @JoSh-op6gu  I would hardly say that that China's punitive action at the end of the Viet Nam war was a major conflict. Their conquest of the entire Tibetan Plateau was a major move, if not a real war.
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  2755.  @joerogue231  Your question proves one thing: you are a bear of little brain.
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  2756.  @TechieTard  Why believe the facts when you can believe the lie that has been implanted in your pathetic brain.
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  2757.  @robertjohnson1681  I know it matters so little to him that he spends tens of thousands of dollars annually hiding how ugly he is.
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  2758.  Amy Hinton  He is one beastly pig, but in America, even the illusion that you have big bucks gets you a model in your bed. Makes you kind of miss the sixties when at least some women were into men who had evolved consciously.
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  2759.  machination3e  It's not obnoxious if the object spends every effort to hid and mask every normal human sign of what in his mind is a wanting apperance. It's part of his act. He is a perfect example of what Gurdjieff referred to as a hasnamuss. But only a Trump or someone like him could get me and millions of others to get out an vote for an asshole like Biden.
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  2760.  @ivanwalker3391  Therefore all the peoples of the earth are sick, because no government is free of corruption and corruption is the sickness.
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  2761.  @platosbeard4449  Can you tell me of a hegemony or even nation of secondary power that has not also expressed the human failings common to all men of whatever race or creed? That is of course: had they the power that results in notable corruption. I frequent many progressive forums and the people I run into who consider themselves progressives, are frequently surprised to the point of denial to find out that the American First Nations or Native Americans were not only not the environmentalists that is held forth in their pop persona in the media, but were hideously barbaric and blood thirsty in their near continuous warfare among themselves in pre and post columbian eras. Further when it is pointed out to them that such behavior is common to all the vying nations and even some NGO and religious organizations, inevitably they have to divert the conversation. To ascribe the common failings of all men to the current hegemony, though always a crowd pleaser among those outside of said hegemony, or out of power inside of it, is simplistic and naive. Which is not to say that the USA is not deserving of such criticism. The USA is apparently corrupt on many national levels, but what nation is not? True, the corruption in the USA presently has more of a universal effect than say the corruption you may find in a monastery in Tibet, but do you doubt that the young initiates in such a circumstance are exploited, beaten, and abused, even in this apparently most benign of cultures? The USA could do well to have a government upgrade, no doubt, something that excluded psychopaths, or people who are unable to distinguish fact from fiction, from public office would be good for a start. But barring that, real campaign finance reform is the lynch pin that will end the normalized corruption that holds America in its thrall, and is the most beneficial legislation that could occur. All other political issues in the USA are basically red herrings that keep the same old power-elite bumbling along.
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  2762.  @stansukhwant-ms8bz  Really? What is the source of your information. I ask because as I see it Wall Street owned both of them, but Trump was too out front about the undermining of the middle class that they have been doing for fifty years. It was embarrassing. The largest transfer of wealth from everybody to the one percent took place under Trump. Look it up. All the millionaires got permanent tax breaks, while the rest of us got temporary tax breaks. The biggest financial bubble of stock values took place under Trump. Also he ran up the national deficit farther and faster than any other president in history. Cutting taxes and increasing military spending will do that. You may not remember it but when Clinton left office the nation had no deficit at all, in fact it had a surplus. The idiot Bush took care of that by invading a country for 9/11 that had nothing to do with 9/11. I could go on forever. The main point to remember is this. The real money behind Trump is Robert Mercer, who is the most successful hedge fund manager in the world and owns the largest house and compound on long Island, and Koch Industries which are the worst polluters in the USA. They are as Wall Street as you can get, and even the traders and banksters were ecstatic when Trump won, because they knew a fellow confidence artist when they met one. You may remember that Trump lost in NY and lost big in NYC. That is simply because they were aware of what a disaster and con artist he was, and the small town rubes in the rust belt that put him in office had no idea what he really was outside of the illusion he spun on TV of being a great businessman. While the reality is that he lost more money than anyone else in the country for ten years strait. Unfortunately his enablers depended on lies instead of facts and he supplied them in spades. Trump told over 22,000 documented lies since he took office and hasn't let up for one minute. Here's the most important fact. Both the republican and the democratic parties are virtually owned by the same few families and they have nothing good in store for you and me.
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  2763.  @ssn90  To me it is totally frightening that so many otherwise apparently normal and even good people have fallen for his authoritarian bull. But even someone with virtually no political smarts, if exposed to the actual facts should be able to come to a conclusion that is not against their own best interests. The main problem is, as you mentioned the amount of disinformation that is served up to the public as factual. Even if the facts are correct, the entire milieu of their narrative is often diversionary and false. But look at this fact: The biggest polluter in the country is Koch Industries. Since the right-wing radicals under Trump took over, they no longer have to follow EPA guidelines at all regarding what they dump into the water table and our streams and rivers. Have you ever visited the Appalachian coal regions, especially in PA. Streams with no life at all, forests that grow to forty feet then all die because their roots hit poisoned water, roads so thick with coal dust from trucks that every car that passes raises a toxic black cloud. Community after community devastated by pollution and economic collapse, yet they go on stripping, go on burning the crap for electricity, and there are no miners at all anymore, none that go down into mines that is. The people that own these big mines do not live there. They wouldn't live there is you paid them. Trump lied about clean coal. The entire idea of clean coal is ridiculous yet these devastated communities are some of the most staunch and violent Trump supporters anywhere. It leads one to conclude that the vast majority of Trump supporters cannot tell reality from the disinformation planted in their heads, and the disinformation coming from a source like PBS and a Trump rally are not even in the same universe. Trump is a lying, thieving, draft-dodging, mental defective. That is apparent to anyone who just looks at the real facts and ignores the hype.
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  2764.  @stansukhwant-ms8bz  Really, all you can say is "what about?" Personally I despise Biden. He is a problem, he is a liar, but not nearly as bad a Trump. To think that these two evil choices are real choices is to be taken in by the divisive lies of the power-elite. Both Trump and Biden are owned by the same players. You have no choice. If a person seriously lines up behind either the dems or repubs they are basically a fool. You have no choice. You cannot vote against Goldman Sachs and company, because in elections that actually matter they own both candidates. The fact that you do not already know this and choose a side speaks volumes about your understanding of what's actually going on, and it is severely lacking.
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  2765.  @stansukhwant-ms8bz  No, he undermined the middle class by continuing the polices that have been in effect since the Reagan administration whether the dems or repubs held power. I know you cannot understand that the banksters and masters of the universe financial gods are stealing from you, and that our culture is being continually degraded by their legalized crimes and market manipulations, but then you are a Trump cultist, and there is no real difference between someone who believes what Trump has to say and a person who believes in fairy tales. You live in a web of lies, as do the Biden enthusiasts. An example of this is that you believe it is a good thing that your taxes were lowered, but not as much as the taxes of the very wealthy, and your tax break will end in a few years while theirs goes on forever. Trump has run up the national debt faster and higher than any president in history. You think this is a good thing, because you basically are just a Trump talking point who doesn't know or understand the actual facts about what he is saying. You are just a little disseminator of disinformation and the false narrative you have been handed by scumbags.
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  2766.  @stansukhwant-ms8bz  You obviously have mistaken me for someone who supports the democrats. You are the idiot if you take either fake side.
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  2767.  @richardowens9061  Have you been asleep? The evidence is massive if you care to look for it. Let’s start with the law that congress just passed allowing government agencies to investigate your internet activities. But this is just window dressing for something that has been going on for over a decade. Former head of the NSA Clapper’s problematic testimony occurred a few minutes before noon on March 12, 2013, when he told Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., “No, sir,” and, “Not wittingly,” in response to a question about whether the NSA was collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans. Wyden later said he provided the question to Clapper before the hearing and unsuccessfully asked Clapper to correct the record. Months later, Snowden revealed in June 2013 that the U.S. intelligence community obtained secret court orders forcing phone companies to turn over millions of U.S. call records on an “ongoing, daily basis.” And that is just the tip of the iceberg. Everything you do, write or say over the internet or other electronic venues is not only analyzed, it is stored for over a decade. This has been known for years. Try a little investigation yourself. Snowden let the cat out of the bag, and later revelations show that not only was he telling the truth but he didn’t really know all of the features of the domestic spying. You are probably also unaware that drones monitor some ot the cities in the USA continually. They have been used to monitor the current protests and the scumbags who use them to cover criminal activities. Some of these drone services are even run by private companies and sold to police departments. They are quite simple and brilliant – as in brilliant weaponry which is the next step beyond smart weapons. The same type of logarithms that show you ads based on your internet use are used to sum up and infer your propensity for anti-government activities. Don’t be naive. Think about it. A drone is continuous overhead during the protests. Every heat signature on the street is tagged. Then they can merely rewind the surveillance video and see where any particular tagged heat signature originated, thus getting the address. Also where they went after the demonstration. Etc. Another example: There is a burglary. They play the video backward and can tell where the criminals came from, simple but extremely effective. I don’t really have time to do your homework for you so if you can actually discriminate between evidence and disinformation you will find innumerable leads to what is going on. And every one of your searches will be recorded and scrutinized by machines that can do that and a thousand times more in a fraction of a second at almost no cost.
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  2768.  @nickhallett8098  Sorry if my posts at time seem convoluted. I am usually in a hurry because of real life, but feel the compulsion to respond. I agree. It has been said we live in the age of amnesia. People are just flooded with disinformation from the corporate media and government so I guess we all just pick what supports the stories we feel an affinity for. The stories I personally feel the most affinity for, have little to do with politics as such, but I never thought I would see the USA become so degraded by a handful of super-wealthy megalomaniacs and their misanthropic sycophant enablers.
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  2769. Kind of amusing how contaminated your mindset is with the winner takes all paradigm. You said that the company that figures out fusion will "own the world". How about the institution that figures this out will free the world. Otherwise this is all bull.
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  2770. Strange: I thought Tesla's OTA upgrades and continual incremental improvements on already purchased vehicles is almost the opposite of what you are claiming.
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  2771. So what is the big problem with Tesla? Simple: they are trying to deal with Germany as if it isn't in the pocket of the big German auto industry, and you may as well be dealing with the mafia. On one hand they will complement your competency, while at the same time the covertly fund bogus environmental groups to keep your plant from opening. That the German auto industry and banking industry also is like the mafia, is not hyperbole. They even get caught from time to time, pay a fine and keep right on going, it's all a part of the mindset.
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  2772. CNN just proves over and over that they are crap: It was CNN that called Bernie a liar with their phrasing of Warrens question. What a bunch of one percent toadies. And that mutant Vanderbilt heir is getting hard on the eyes despite his hundreds of millions. How the fuck does anyone expect these millionaire newscasters to be impartial about Sanders. What a shit station. The entire paradigm they present is a lie. Not much better than Fox. Maybe worse cause more people fall for it. We are hip to your same old tired dirty tricks and your dubious bullshit experts. You want an expert on the political scene: where is Chris Hedges, Chomsky, and anyone else with half a brain, unlike these partisan apologists for the military industrial complex. These people will burn in hell, except there is no hell, so they will fuck up the consensus consciousness of the nation and make their millions for their evil bullshit jobs.
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  2773.  @AudioPervert1  I think it would be great if we got rid of all guns. All includes the police, and hunting arms. Though since we got rid of most predators you would have to be willing to watch deer and antilope starve to death because of overpopulation. Maybe the bow hunters could kill enough of them to prevent that. Probably not.
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  2774. Best way to counter opioid addiction, other than actually helping people by decriminalization and free heroin in a clinical setting with offers of treatment is -- STOP REVIVING PEOPLE WHO OD! It's just a money scam by emergency med companies. The users don't care, why should we spent millions and millions of dollars reviving the same users day after day, when all they want to do is die in pleasure.
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  2775. You introductory sentence gave me the first good laugh of the day. I feel the same'
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  2776. Diaz and his father should be deported for entering the USA illegally.
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  2777. Any political narrative rationalized by "historical incidents" is just telling the story you want told. There are a near infinite way to connect dots and rationalize the constellation that emerges. No difference here from the story Russia is telling -- subjective reasoning attempting to disguise itself as objective fact. In politics and history fact is a myth.
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  2778. Number one contributor to greenhouse gasses is the clearing of forests for animal agriculture. This constitutes 87% of greenhouse gases. The only effective action would be to allow these pasture lands to reforest. This would mean that most of the world's population would have to give up meat and dairy products. So. . . prepare for the end because people are incapable of changing their behavior because of factual information. It hey don't like what they hear, they just won't believe it.
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  2779.  @Ethorbit  Well that certainly su#ks.
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  2780.  BloatedGaming  If you think that people are leaving comments on YouTube to be paid a dime, there is no need for further proof of your lack of intelligence.
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  2781. I can see Santa Cruz across the bay. Miss it.
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  2782. Peter couldn't be more incorrect about Tesla. No layoffs, almost 30b in the bank, increasing production and sales about 90% YOY, a stock price that has been gutted by continual fake news from almost all commercial media, because they will not spend the billions on advertising that the others like GM do on a yearly basis, because they do not have to, their vehicles sell themselves, the highest owner satisfaction and loyalty, by far the safest vehicles in a collision, the only charging net worth using, transformational major tech breakthroughs that have yet to penetrate the public mind, and apparently Peter's too, the world leader in real-world AI, so many pluses that I cannot go into them here. Investors like Soros buying the present dip. NO debt, like Ford almost 130b in real debt, and more profit per unit than any other major OEM except Mercedes. The one thing that Tesla does have to worry about is Chinese unrest, but that is about it. His idea that Tesla has "gobbled up the subsidies". . . is ridiculous and enormously incorrect: Tesla has been killing it with no subs for years, and come Jan1st will be eligible for over 6k per unit in the new federal subs. How in the hell could someone be so wrong about all this when the facts are freely available to anyone who is able to distinguish media and short seller FUD from reality? I have lost enormous respect for Pete's opinions, despite the fact that I would love to see them come true for Russia and China.
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  2783.  @moritamikamikara3879  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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  2784. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  2785. Tension decreases on a gradient. You can actually feel it. California is way less tense than the east, and Santa Cruz is way less tense than most of CA.
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  2786. And "the mafia never forgets", but it sure seems like everyone else has forgotten that Cuba was a criminal empire totally in the pocket of the US mafia, which ran it like a subsidy, literally delivered suitcases of cash directly to the president, and owned all the sin businesses, from whose crumbs that fell off the mafia table, a good number of the well-off Cubans who fled were dependent.
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  2787. Genius point. If you are a child or an imbecile.
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  2788. Obviously the pole lice do not know how to party without getting hostile. Could be daddy issues.
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  2789.  @asdasdasddgdgdfgdg  Wrong: real America 50s, aspirational America late 60s early 70s, beginning of stupid America -- advent of disco culture. All downhill except for tech from there on. All you have to do is look at the intellectual level of late night shows to see that. From Dick Cavett to the kneejerk political clowns we have today. That being said I would love to see a ticket of John Stewart and Bill Maher for Pres and vice. They would definitely be superior to any political psychopaths or career politicians in the ring. Crazy but it worked in Ukraine.
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  2790. They are "sales" and typically the OEM will finance the dealers new car inventory at sweet-heart interest rates or even rebates on finance charges. They don't "dump" the cars at dealerships, the manager/s spec them out and order what they guess will sell best at their store.
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  2791. Wrong, wrong, right, and wrong. Are we now comparing a headache to children being gang raped and then executed by drugged Russian troops? I bet that picture is really you.
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  2792.  @frostbyte101 That happens if the person you are replying to blocks you.
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  2793. Your comment contains anachronistic views. There was no viable form of contraception in the 1940s. Prophylactics were not even legal in many countries back then. Populations do not make conscious decisions about their countries population and effect them in their family life. During times of "Shambles" people do not have less children because they are expensive, during times of hardship and stress people have more children, because they have more sex.
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  2794. Great, not really, pretty good is where N Korean evs are at.
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  2795. @Dance4JC Totally agree.
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  2796.  @yvettegreen3242  I trust that by now you have found out that your statement is not even an approximation of the facts.
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  2797.  Christian Cole  Apparently you know nothing at all about world history.
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  2798. The question is: When will she be co-opted by the financial sector like Obama was? Or has she already been?
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  2799. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fp9A3xx_I8
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  2800. Also no mention of the Russian hyper-sonic missile strike that killed two patriot units with one shot.
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  2801. And just how did the various Native American tribes treat each other? I bet you don't really know. Here's a hint: continual war, torture, and cannibalism -- they only lacked the means to wipe out their enemies or they would have done it. You are believing a dream of a people who lived in harmony with the earth and each other. A people who never existed. Just look at the record ot the extinctions that took place as the first Asians migrated to the new world. This does not even get into the cannibalism and ritual sacrifice that was rampant in the more organized native cultures. Give up the Hollywood fantasies and find the facts.
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  2802.  @noonebusiness2442  All of human history confirms what I wrote. People are the same everywhere. The psychopaths gain power in all cultures -- eventually. Everywhere on earth the so -called indigenous peoples were subsumed by more warlike and technologically advanced cultures unless they did the aggression on their neighbor... All else is just dreams, like your belief in a god that is out-there somewhere. Your ideas about native cultures are a dream born of ignorance. They took delight in torturing captures foes to death. The women and children loved to participate in this. Learn some real history and your fantasy idea of native cultures will go the way of the hideous Aztec civilization.
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  2803.  @noonebusiness2442  Let me give you an example of your delusion. On G Washington's firs t military assignment to scout the French fort near Pittsburg, he and his men, which included natives who were at war with the French and the tribes they allied with, came upon a detachment of French troops who were camped for the night. Washington was unable to stop the native war chief from splitting the skull of a bound Frenchman and washing his hands in his brains. Typical behavior. Your deflection to the practices of the Norse is meaningless. That's what Republcans do when their ills are pointed out to them. But Clinton . . . as if that makes their own shit not stink. You are wrong about the culture you are defending. The native tribes in NA were continually at war with each other. This is the norm for people everywhere who do not have the ability to totally dominate others. The only times that humanity had significant times of peace is when one power was so overwhelming that no one could resist it. EXcept for the Mongols who would just kill everyone anyway.
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  2804. VW, Porsche, Mercedes, screwing their customers over and over and over.
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  2805. GM did recent buybacks for exactly the reason you give. Tesla never did any buybacks. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  2806. Rather have a McMurtry.
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  2807. The only hope for Tesla's competition lies in industrial espionage.
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  2808. Personally I am of the opinion that the people who are more or less forcing the traditional automakers to go EV and are developing the physical potential of green energy, have done far more than all the environmental protestors put together. Actually doing something viable and positive that is physically transformative . . . not so easy as talk. Like Sting sang, "There is no political solution. . . ." Any so-called political solution will be co-opted, lobbied and well "corrupted" into ineffectual window dressing that is really only a path to political power for those of the same bent as those they criticize but in a different "key, like in the progressive key instead of the regressive one we now tolerate to an amazing degree: like frogs in a slowly warming pot that will eventually boil. The solution is to make the most gross sources of environmental degradation economically nonviable (and this is being done quite rapidly, though certainly not as rapidly as it would be if the current pending legislation were objective and not just a political ploy to subsidize unions and other political entities instead of the most viable engineering of the desired clean energy transformation) -- or we can continue, to do the same thing over and over, while expecting a new outcome. I have to quote whoever it was who said, "The lesson of history is that humanity does not learn from the lessons of history." . . . or something to that effect. We could, but this can only come about after a total reform of how political campaigns are financed. We can only really begin to proceed if all private funding of politics is disallowed by law. I know this, you know this, even John McKane knew this and still crickets. I know it's boring but campaign finance is the lynch pin of all the presently legalized forms of corruption that have been normalized in the last half century. It is the glue that holds together the nasty melange we presently suffer.
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  2809. ​ @patricialongo5746  Your misunderstanding of what I wrote is so epic that I find it hard to believe that you even read it before you responded. I hardly think that GM, who I refer to as "a traditional automaker" in my statement, and who is now being dragged along kicking and screaming into the green energy age is an example of what I am referring to. They are the opposite of an innovative and ethical company like Tesla. But that is were you had to go, because that is were your argument makes any sense at all. Even so, one recall is near meaningless, especially when it is totally outdated technology. And change is bigger than that. All Tesla models are sold out for the entire year. Tesla is opening two new factories, one in Texas and one in Germany. The largest factories in the world. Change will not come about by protests or political means, that has been tried over and over. Change is happening now, and it is massive and these protests are like sentimental artifacts of a bygone age. Though I am all for the protestors themselves, if they don't have the means or education to make real contributions they can pose for photo ops to shut down pipelines. They shut down one and two pop up somewhere else. It is ineffective, and will always be overcome by backroom deals and various stratagems of the power elite until they start losing money because they backed a fossil fuel horse that is losing the race and losing them money.
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  2810.  @ericlane3256  I have googled it and you are incorrect.
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  2811. Ta Da . . . Stupid Comment of the Day Award. Wear it proudly like you do your own ignorance.
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  2812. We know that Putin is enormously wealthy. That he uses those close to him to act as shills in legal scams involving dummy corporations and other ways to hide wealth. Elon Musk, who is supposed to be history's wealthiest man, has claimed that Putin is much richer than he is himself, and I believe this to be true. My question is how much of Putin's obscurated personal wealth is invested in US and NATO defense industries? I have heard rumors that it is quite a bit. But would even Putin engage in war to stimulate profits in the defense industries of his enemies to increase his personal wealth?
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  2813.  @tonypitsacota2513  You are so incorrect it is kind of hilarious. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention? Tesla cars are the safest cars on the planet, apparently all the evidence and experts disagree with your ridiculous unsubstantiated lie.
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  2814. What is your source to prove that there are more bots on Twitter now than before Musk took over? Sounds like your own opinion and nothing more to me.
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  2815. Samsung is not the world's largest chip manufacturing.
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  2816.  @sly273  Sorry sonny but Samsung isn't even in the top five. The biggest foundry is TSMC. The biggest market cap is Nvidia, kid. And TSMC actually manufactures most of Nvidia's chips, kid. Your welcome.
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  2817.  @sly273  wrong
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  2818. @UCwe8FzNcq7cKynHUX6_T1qQ You are confused. Intel has TSMC make it's advanced chips. It is now making major investments to get back into fabrication on a competitive level. They are not even a real manufacturer (yet) and you think they are second. You don't understand the difference between chip fab and chip design, and company revenue. This guy said Samsung is the largest chip manufacturer in the world. They are not. they are not even a close second. I said they were not the largest chip manufacturer in the world, you commented saying they are. You are totally and emphatically incorrect -- sonny.
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  2819.  @sly273  wrong.
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  2820.  @sly273  The foundry is simply the place were chips are manufactured -- genius.
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  2821. There are lots of viable options. How about: a government that is determined by verifiable facts instead of partisan narratives?
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  2822. It's worse than you think. I had a friend who got wealthy selling health insurance. He told me that 85% of the money spent on healthcare in the USA goes to salesmen and administration.
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  2823. Now your doing the "fuckery" thing too. Fuckery is not a word. And even if it was a word, how does it reflect on one's relationship to fucking if you use it as a negative. Think about it, every culture has a category of words they use as "curses" like in France most are connected to Religion or the Catholic church, like the exclamation of "Hotsi" which means the sacred host, or another one means god made of pubic hair, but in the good old USA it is sex that becomes the curses. This indicated a society that is sexually demented. Try: fraud, deceit, cheating, flimflam, treachery, etc. You can do it, you can use a real word.
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  2824. That's exactly the problem with the Apthera: unsprung motor weight.
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  2825.  @BlackJacketJones  The real climate refugees will be with Elon on Mars.
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  2826.  @thomascrabtree  Ketamine is the worst drug you could possibly give to someone as a surgical anesthetic, unless you think being unable to move but experiencing the pain and trauma is fun.
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  2827. This will continue until it is economically nonviable. You can help make it a monetary loser by using an EV, and you can do more for the environment than any other possible individual action by giving up the products of the number one producer of greenhouse gases. That would not be the fossil fuel industry, rather it is animal agriculture. Anyone who is not a vegan may talk the talk but they ain't walking the walk.
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  2828.  @Scifiape  Lol, and let us not forget the indubitable advantage of the right head injury at the right moment in youth. With good luck, you could end up an Einstein, then you could figure out the probability of receiving such a singular blow.
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  2829. Gold's value is as much an illusion as is the value of fiat currency. It only has relative value because people will accept it in exchange for goods and services. What is it good for? Jewelry (Including the man jewelry know as coins, and a tiny use in electronics. If the Russian reserves were known it would crash. If the right asteroid is able to be mined it will become virtually worthless. If the shit ever really hits the fan, no one in their right mind would trade you their food or bullets for gold.
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  2830. Chinese stability is the biggest threat to BYD. The man who predicted the Russian invasion of Ukraine five years before it happened, Peter Zeihan, predicts that People's Republic of China will not be around for another decade. So . . . nothing is set in stone, or even concrete.
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  2831. It may even help you to compose a coherent sentence. But I doubt it.
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  2832. And riding a horse is ten times more dangerous than driving according to insurance stats.
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  2833.  @machoopichoo2  Maybe the industry known in Hollywood as The Industry? But then . . . who knows.
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  2834. I fear you would be amazed at how many fundamentalist Christians believed that he is an instrument of god, even before he did.
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  2835. Watched the first episode: it pretends to objectivety, but is as partial a narrative as it promises not to be. Example: it denounces the crusades as the beginings of white supremisist racist politics, fails to mention that Muslim lands invaded by the crusaders were the result of an extremely ethnocentric invasion that took more African and European peoples into captivity and slavery than all the European countries combined. Presents the various American Indian tribes as living in peaceful harmony with one another -- total bull. All in all more revisonist romanitic tropes for woke, history free puddin-heads to beat their breasts over and accuse people who struggled centuries ago of not having post sixties values. But most of all, fails to point out that all so-called races and cultures have enacted brutal acts and claims that the American Indians were not really violent except in self-defense. I guess the fact that Mexico basically abandoned huge areas of the southwest because of Commanche savagery and tactical prowess didn't really happen. An area that the Commanches invaded from their northern homeland -- by the way.
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  2836. Nobody believes that autonomous humanoid robots are a thing. I guess the entire world will be blindsided, cause they are coming a lot sooner than most imagine.
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  2837.  Marcus Olofzon  Basically -- yes, but there are exceptions. For instance much of the blood in the DRC could be blamed on Nordic cell phone manufacturing. However they have done a better than average job of turning this around, but they stonewalled at first. Also much of the economic downturn for average Americans could strangely enough be traced to Swedish economic policies. However I would still rather live there than anywhere else on earth, it I could. But I can't, have too many dependent on me right now. Regards.
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  2838. Not tuck son: Two sawn
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  2839. Very presumptuous on your part, and very wrong in many cases.
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  2840. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  2841. Maybe the bureaucrats in Germany will stop delaying the opening of the Tesla factory in Berlin because of filing by fake environmental groups that take millions in donations from VW group. They could have been cranking out the best EVs on earth since last summer if not for the continual underhanded nonsense in Germany. If you haven't figured it out yet, get rid of your ICE car. They enslave you to the same people who are destroying everything.
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  2842. Fine conclusions except for one thing: animal agriculture is the number one cause of greenhouse gases which are causing climate degredation. More specifically the cutting of forests to make way for pasturage and the feed crops for animals that we eat and milk is destroying the climate that humans need to survive. It doesn't matter what you want to think about it, that is the fact. It doesn't matter what your particular tastes or belief is, or even if you are fool enough to think that because you had a reaction to some leafy greens because you never developed the microbiome that can use them beneficially, because you only ate meat and carbs and sugar as a child. Get over your selfish dumb beliefs and realize that the survival of civilization is at stake even though it seem irrelevant in your daily pursuit of pleasure and self-satisfaction.
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  2843. Asshole Biden is so busy stepping on his own dick to reconcile with the Trump pricks and their supporters, when he should be attempting to reconcile with the real left, which he has fucked over time and time again.
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  2844. Personally I wonder if when I click this show to read the guest bio if it counts as a view? If I don't know who the guest is I always read it. If the guest is an MMA fighter, a comedian, actor, or some neo-rightwing toid trying to sound like they actually posses a neocortex, or some imbecile antivegan carnivore-wannabe, II just move on immediately. If is is someone like Abby Martin, David Sinclair, Elon Musk, Rhonda Patrick, I listen. Judging by the bulk of his programming and the amount of bro' science it spews -- I suspect my tastes are in the minority. Then again I do give him credit in that his scatter-gun approach does have a good spread, so it does get some guests I really enjoy. He is sort of a contradiction in himself, professing love and loving to see people beat the shit out of each other. Not necessarily a contradiction on his part nor a criticism on mine. It's good to keep seemingly antithetical modules of identification fed in order to maintain a wide spectrum of inner possibiites and outer actions. That would be, if he knew what he was doing.
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  2845. Plus how would they deal with giving the Jewish/Italian/Cuban mafia their criminal run country back? When Cuba was taken over by communists it was taken basically from a cabal of gangsters that controlled every aspect of government and all the commerce that really mattered, casinos, money laundering for the US operations, drugs, prostitution. The gangsters are lining up with their hand out and the mafia never forgets. Plus if anyone thinks that Cubans are going to labor for 10% of what others are getting for more than a nanosecond, they you do not realize that the number one form of suicide in Cuba is from jumping off of their egos.
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  2846. Should be called the model T: both for Tesla and as a homage to the first commonly affordable ICE and now the first affordable Tesla, and of course for Thor, who had quite a lot to do with lightning and by association electricity.
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  2847.  @serafinacosta7118  True enough. There are some less than benign cases of foreign ownership though. But of course they would be just as harmful no matter who owned them. The case that sticks out in my mind is a few decades ago some reporter investigated just who owned a particularly filthy strip mining operation in the hard coal region of PA. This is a company that as basically raped the populace and destroyed the environment for decades. The Spanish "royal" family is one of the owners that stuck in my adolescent brain at the time.
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  2848. Equality before the law is the only real form of equality that is possible for a society. No two people have the same talents or genetic endowments, or circumstance even if they are identical twins raised in the same home. Eventually they will differentiate themselves not only in experience and attitude but also we now know they will alter their genome throughout their life. The whole idea that men are born equal is total nonsense, but the ideal they they should be treated equally before the law is a real possibility. At present the criminal justice system in the USA is nothing less then an abomination brought about by the acceptability of corrupting practices in the name of expedience by the darlings of the courts.
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  2849. If the propensity for police violence is still a mystery to you, look into the Stanford Prison Experiment. We have known all along that if you give people authority over others, and uniforms, and weapons, and tell them to enforce order: they will become abusive. No ifs, ands, or buts -- it will happen even if they know that they are playing a role. Next question: why has no media source, none, addressed this issue? Possibly related metaphor: During the sixties a favorite pass time for teens was to cruse around in cars on Friday and Saturday night. I remember the traffic at a standstill because of this, and when not standing still it barely moved. Then one Friday night, at the very peek of cruise traffic, after the high school football game had finished, their was a power outage. All the traffic lights stopped working, and a miracle happened, all of a sudden the traffic began to move, and it continued to move, without accidents, or incident, until the issue was resolved and the traffic lights went back on. . . . It happened. I was there.
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  2850. Scania still has some time to get it right before Tesla starts churning out semi EVs and exporting them to Europe or eventually building them there. But they have to do better. Tesla's semi is alien tech compared to Scania. Of course they can always strike against Tesla, problem with that is that the actual workers at Tesla have no reason or desire to strike. Like in Denmark.
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  2851.  @ericposey-vt5ej  Not "renewable" -- recyclable. In April, for example, Fortum Battery Recycling started operations at a hydrometallurgical plant in Harjavalta, Finland, that claims to recover more than 95% of the cobalt, manganese, nickel, and lithium present in black mass.
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  2852. It's about time that the fire risk myth is sunk. Gas engines are far more likely to catch fire, and hybrids are even worse.
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  2853.  @ericposey-vt5ej  Petrol is not renewable or recyclable. Electricity can be. If lithium so bad why has the construction business been overtaken with Lithium battery powered tools? Because being tied to a electric line sucks even worse. Just like being tied to a murderous and polluting industry like Petrol sucks even worse. Where was all the concern when we knew all along that producing a car produced two tons of pollution before it is even driving off the line? You are not impressed by 95% recycling? Sounds like a personal thing to me.
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  2854. Tesla new car sales in China are at record highs: May , June -- take your pick.
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  2855. Love you Oliver, but let's bear in mind that the CIA is an organization about whom, in general, we only know about their failures. In a way, that is not apparent, the CIA and NSA are a lot like the CCP. And when you think about it the USA is really more socialist than the PRC. They may call themselves communists but, who has medicare and social security, surely not the Chinese who outside of the CCP have no social safety net.
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  2856. Well, according to the "reasoning" of the triggered haters in these comments: The tantric Buddhists, the Shavites, and all the Hindu religions that have swastikas on their temples and use it as part of their iconography are nazis. Because after all it has the same shape, just like Musk's over exuberant attempt to express his emotions had a somewhat similar form to a nazi salute. And then there is the rhetoric about his support for far right Germans. I guess this had nothing to do with the far left in Germany attempting to shut down the Tesla factory for years with bogus complaints about it using too much water, or the "environmentalist" secretly funded by VW group that filed complaint after complaint and delayed the opening of the Tesla factory for a year, while there is a coal mine just down the road that uses much more water with no protests, or the fact that imbecile far left German youths have been setting fire to Tesla cars parked on the street. If any of you have accomplish one one hundredth of the things that Musk has done to benefit humanity and his indefatigable efforts to ensure humanities survival of the inevitable next global extinction event you would have a leg to stand on, but you haven't and you don't.
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  2857. So you don't want to buy Tesla until it is no longer on sale. . . . brilliant. Your argument makes no sense at all. They are delivering cars in months depending on the model you want, and the whole thing is you are taking their fantastic success and making it sound like failure. You seem really really confused about what is going on.
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  2858. True that, even Lee can't do it most of the time.
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  2859. Looks like a car that only a mother could love. Fugly as hell.
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  2860. So what is the price? Over $140,000 -- or more, is the consensus. Not very efficient is the conclusion.
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  2861.  @grahamhiggins1816  Don't know what kind of oats you are eating but I can assure you, you will have the opposite of a crash if you eat high quality organic oat groats, soaked for a day or two. You will have long long lasting energy and hunger satisfaction. These is exactly what your microbiome wants to eat. Of course if you use sugar or syrup or crap nonorganic quick oats all bets are off.
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  2862. You mean there was no reason for an upstanding citizen to open fire. Most cops become cops so they can be paid to push people around, and occasionally they get to murder someone with no repercussions. What in the fifties would get someone smacked with a billy club or slapped with a blackjack, now gets them murdered. Police need to be tested for psychopathic tendencies. Too many children are murdered every year instead of tackled when they try to run.
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  2863. Don't by ICE vehicle at all. Buy EV SUVs is fine.
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  2864. @counselthyself Get in touch with reality. Look out the window once in awhile. People are not going to give up buying SUVs because you don't like them. They are going to buy them because they are the most versatile vehicle a family can own. They may however be open to the alternative of buying an electric SUV and that is a vast improvement over an ICE SUV as far as the environment is concerned. Also you really don't have any idea whether or not we can build ourselves out of the vector of environmental degradation that we are now on. You really don't know, all you know is that it doesn't fit in with your assumptions which are based on biased analysis of limited information. So thanks for your opinion. My opinion is that you are absolutely incorrect and that we are going to get over the hump of fossil fuel use by building and investing our way out of it.
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  2865.  @yurichtube1162  If Ukraine had not given up it's nukes, it would be attacking the Russians in Moscow soon. By the time the war is over, Russia will be a land were their are only criminals posing as political leaders and old sick alcoholics left. And anybody with any potential or brains will have fled. That's some fine attrition.
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  2866. @Asahi Ogawa They are rushing -- out. Anybody with any potential has fled Russia, and now even the proles are outa there. Russia is doomed demographically doomed, this is their last chance to spill the blood of innocents and they will not let it pass.
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  2867. Today's new form of ignorance is not a lack of factual info, it is immunity to facts. Due to the faulty way the total of the greenhouse gases generated by animal ag was calculated, it is now found that the situation is even worse than it was presumed. 87% of green house gases are generated by animal ag. If you buy, consume, or produce the products of animal agriculture, quite simply, you have no meaningful stance against climate change -- you are doing the opposite of helping. The fact that animal ag is overwhelmingly responsible for climate change makes all the crying about car and jet emissions, and dirty electricity production -- important -- but diversionary. 87% of green house gases are generated by animal ag. Animal Ag is the elephant shi$$ing in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSc_51xR8sQ
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  2868. How long will it take the diehard antiTesla clowns to realize that Tesla does everything, from the Form Follows Function design to the smallest detail, better than anyone else, except for perhaps the small OEMs of multi million dollar cars. And by the time that the old guard "catches up" Tesla is further ahead than before.
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  2869. You only manage to leave out the number one cause of green house gases. That would be the totality of animal agriculture, including the forests that were cut down to provide pasturage, and food for the animals, which comprises more than thirty percent of all crops. If the forests alone were somehow magically restored to the time of the early 1900 all other sources of greenhouse gas would be without meaningful consequence. So basically, no matter what you know, or do, if you are not a vegan, you are part of the main problem.
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  2870. There will never be reparations. Dream on.
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  2871. How's this for a blinding flash of the obvious? The problem with Mexico is corruption and violence.
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  2872. If you don't know that all power systems are "corrupt and dirty" because all of the power elite that people them are corrupt and dirty, no matter what colors they wear, then you really don't know much.
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  2873. Who writes this tripe? Step forward so you can be belittled in the manner you so richly deserve. You continually insult the intelligence of your viewers.
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  2874.  @jimdoe9827  They are also the reason that many US companies went out of business. I used to know some guys at the former Bethlehem Steel, who were paid to go to work every day and do absolutely nothing, because the union contract said that their jobs could not be changed even though the jobs they did were no longer necessary because of tech advancements. Just one example of union greed and stupidity manifesting in magical thinking that destroys companies. Unions are stupid and counterproductive. Employee ownership of the company through matching stock programs is the way to go. Then the employees are invested in the success of the company instead of the extortion of it. I remember when I was a kid a union strike that put a local bread company out of business, and when they announced the fact that they had no choice but to dissolve the business, the idiot union members were cheering and yelling "we won".
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  2875.  @MrNicoJac  Good point, but somewhat overwrought.
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  2876.  @NHLblkgurl  Oh, so that is why the US government is giving Tesla all the breaks. Lol -- fool.
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  2877. Faculty is the word you used facility for. Sorry sorta compulsive in this area.
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  2878. Should be an easy mod.
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  2879. These people who stood and applauded that delusional megalomaniac conman, are exactly the same kind of slimy sycophants that applauded Caligula when he made his horse a senator. And at the feast of self-indulgent hebephrenia that followed, they were exactly like a herd of hippos following the alpha hippo while he literally spews shit all over them, and they just can't get enough of it. Not being reelected is too good for these reptilian brained pricks. We have to do what they have been doing, and just do what ever the fuck we want and call it the law. Banish the fuckers, freeze their assets, make sure they live the life of the people they have no compassion for: the disposable people that they help the banksters (the real takers) destroy as a matter of course. These fuckers need to be reeducated into the best fake human beings they can be swagged into. These self-righteous honorable frauds should all be put on trial as a group for conspiracy and treason, along with the DNC.
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  2880.  @TheBigBigSean  I dislike neoliberals myself, but compared to the nuts passing themselves off as conservatives they are geniuses. The biggest complaint should be about the 70 million Americans being so divorced from reality that they gobble up any inane conspiracy theory and can't tell a conman from a hero. Donald Lame Duck. Put in office by those with lame brains.
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  2881.  @jacobw446  True, but a constitutional republic is a way for the plutocrats to remain in total control of everything that really matters, while presenting the public with the illusion of democracry. The people thirst for real democracy, but direct democracy cannot thrive in a cullture of lies. And the news media, especially fox is owned by these same plutocrats and are employed to disseminate their self-serving deceptive and delusional narrative.
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  2882. They are only protecting their false sense of self- aggrandizement.
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  2883.  @george2113  idiot.
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  2884. 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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  2885. SARS 2 is God's way of saying he is not at all happy with Donald. (This is sarcasm (this sarcasm warning for the sarcasm impaired has been brought to you by The Solid Gone Society))
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  2886.  @crescent4996  Success in a free market is distinct from military coercion. Of course when dealing with ideas in someone's head, all concepts are sort of fungible if accuracy is not a concern.
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  2887. @G M Regulatory credits only account for 5% of Tesla's income, and that is thanks to GM and other dinosaur companies not being environmentally conscientious.
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  2888. How stupid: Twitter is illegal in China. What an a hole Beso is.
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  2889.  @disrealnow9664  And China is pretty much doing the same thing to Russia that Russia did to Ukraine before the actual shooting began. Little groups of a hundred thousand or so are sneaking into Russia. The problem is that the future for both China and Russia is dismal to say the least. As Russia is forced to shut down it's pipelines in order to prevent their self destruction when the west refuses to further fund their war though fuel payments, it is expected to take a minimum of ten years to get them up again. But that would be with the help of western experts and corporate interests that have fled Russia. There is no practical way for China to import Russian oil, they are dependent on the middle east and the navigational choke points that are held by various states that are not at all friendly toward them. And of course both China and Russia are on the verge of an unrecoverable population implosion. As well as given the opportunity any Russian with talent or expertise flees Russia. Then there is the matter of the ramjet guided artillary shells that are or have been (no one really knows) By Nammo in Norway, which is about to become a NATO member. This and another analogous effort by Raytheon should be able to out distance similar Russian guided rounds by 20 or so miles. And of course Canada just gave Excalibur rocket propelled guided rounds and the mobile artillary that can fire them to Ukraine. This is itself will be a game changer in coordination with the "Ghost Phoenix" drones the USA is supplying. These shells do not quite have the range of similar Russian rocket propelled guided shells, but are deadly accurate, and have been used successfully by the USA in conflicts world wide.
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  2890.  @hansjorgkunde3772  Russia oil and gas do Russia no good if they cannot get them to other countries. Your analysis is simplistic and just incorrect. If Germany refused to buy Russian gas, Russia would have to shut down the infrastructure so that it would not self-destruct. If they did this it would be a minimum of ten years to get it back on line. Without western help it does not even have the technical knowledge to do it. Russia has no way to export it's oil other than to the west, It cannot do it by ship because it would have to off load small ships to large oil tankers in western territorial waters. If Germany turns off the gas, Russia is screwed permanently. And Russia is also facing a demographic implosion, rampant sub par education, and a small and diying off expert class. Anyone with any potential leaves at any given opportunity. Russia is a nation of imperialistic alcoholics dreaming of a past that never existed. Russia is screwed, and it did it to itself.
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  2891.  @commentsnipper  If you think China gets gas from Russia you don't really know what your are talking about.
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  2892.  @44bett  And how will they get it there -- genius?
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  2893.  @djprojectus  No it is in beta, you know what beta means don't you?
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  2894.  @djprojectus  No it is your petty complaints that are the joke, in the light of what FSD will mean for civilization when it is ready for prime time.
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  2895.  @djprojectus  Your issues are petty. But being petty yourself you do not understand that.
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  2896.  @djprojectus Tesla: Highest owner satisfaction, Motor Trend car of the last seventy years, most profit per unit in the entire industry, Safest car in a crash, most advanced engineering of any mass produced auto, most retention of resale value of any car, most American parts and labor of any car sold in the USA, Only new auto industry in a hundred years to produce a car and make a profit at scale, Most desirable place to work for graduating PHDs in engineering (spaceX, then Tesla and they exchange engineers when the engineers want) Transformed the entire auto industry. Is the continual target of imbeciles, haters, union agents, and other OEMs, Does not spend one dollar on advertising (as opposed to GM which spends over 2 billion annually to sell illusions) Continually sold out, used Teslas frequently worth more than they cost new. Nope no arguments, except your own inability to comprehend the facts on the ground.
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  2897.  @djprojectus You obviously know nothing about the subject and are just exhibiting your own envy and reaction to the success of others: Petty man, petty concerns, mean nothing. You have no perspective, priorities, or sense of proportions this is all obvious in your silly statements in which you have to ignore all the evidence, all the comments by experts, and even what you yourself know, if you have two brain cells to rub together, is the truth: Tesla has no peers, no real competitors and has done what no other company has been able to do. No further responses to you because you are not concerned with the facts, just with your own prejudice and shallow understanding. Go drive a 22 Y with the latest beta and you will turn your ignorant mind around if you have any intelligence at all. I suspect you are either an industry troll or a junior high student, in either case, you exhibit the intelligence and judgement of a dead grape. You are blocked.
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  2898. Tulsi
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  2899.  @toseltreps1101  I consider that part of the "manufactured evidence". One good thing about the USA is that to a certain extent it is self-correcting. But the various successful psychopaths and oligarchs have borrowed their way deep into America by now, as they have virtually everywhere. It is so obvious that worldwide, the leaders ARE the problem, and the way they are chosen needs severe restructuring. But the foxes are in charge of the hen house, so fat chance of that happening. Some think it would be better to put a hyena in charge of the hen house to fix things. Ho Humm, more of the same old thing over and over.
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  2900.  @joelarrarte8486  I guess he did not make his comment clear enough for everyone to understand. It was badly written and he should definitely learn how to communicate his thoughts with punctuation, nevertheless: I understood that he meant the opposite of what you thought he meant, and so did most others.
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  2901. Lars, your Tesla report, most fun, and best music.
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  2902. They will just take a different tack. Brake packages, aero, carbon fiber wheels, and who knows what else.
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  2903. Use NORD VPN, Use Duck Duck and not Google,
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  2904. This is not true: In peacetime, the nuclear weapons stored in non-nuclear countries are guarded by United States Air Force (USAF) personnel and previously, some nuclear artillery and missile systems were guarded by United States Army (USA) personnel; the Permissive Action Link codes required for arming them remain under American control. In case of war, the weapons are to be mounted on the participating countries' warplanes. The weapons are under custody and control of USAF Munitions Support Squadrons co-located on NATO main operating bases who work together with the host nation forces.
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  2905.  @joebehrdenver  Links to outside sources frequently do not print in YouTube. Look up the PBS investigative report titled How Russian oil is reaching the US market though a loophole in the law. On YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drbhnVZNoWk You will have to find the report in the news hour but then you don't expect me to do all your homework for you -- do you? You do know how to do a search -- right? If not try googling "internet search"
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  2906.  @joebehrdenver  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMTEBoapjbY&t=0s
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  2907. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMTEBoapjbY&t=0s
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  2908.  @joebehrdenver  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMTEBoapjbY&t=0s
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  2909. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMTEBoapjbY&t=0s @joebehrdenver 
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  2910. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMTEBoapjbY&t=0s
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  2911. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMTEBoapjbY&t=0s
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  2912. 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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  2913. Wonder what the air freight companies outlooks are on this matter.
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  2914. There it is: Bernie assumes people are reasonably intelligent, Pete assumes people are stupid and he can benefit by exploiting stupid knee-jerk reactions. Of course the shameless corporate news venues only exist at all because many people have no choice but cable. But even some of the old Fox addicts who use it for human companionship are beginning to realize just how tortured and contrived is the paradigm that contains the few facts they report.
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  2915. Gold is only as good as what you can buy for it, like cash. If the SHTF no one will trade you food or bullets for gold. What would they do with it? make jewelery?
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  2916.  @2eyeson2b  I doubt there will be a 2026 election, and even if there is, it will just be offering two candidates both of whom are the lesser of two evils to their supporters. It's no longer "the smoke filled rooms" that determine who the candidates will be. Which was bad enough, but it is the smoke filled rooms behind the smoke filled rooms, that now make that determination. Strange as it may seem, in my view, there is some hope that the CIA will bring Trump to his knees. The last pres to downsize the CIA was Jimmy Carter, and the former operatives went to work for the RNC, basically wrecked the US economy, to get rid of Carter, Saudis turned off the oil, hostages taken in Iran and released the day Reagan was elected, all coincidence right? And the new vice president just happened to be the former head of the CIA. I never thought I would look back at the presidency of the first George Bush with nostalgia, but now do. The second George Bush was right up there in the running for worst president of all time and may yet be ahead of Trump in that contest.
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  2917. Yeah and when we aren't "bleeding" the enemy, we are bleeding ourselves in stupid wars of no damn consequence except for the civilians tragedies and the good men sent by scoundrelous politicians to support their stock portfolios. The country whose people have the highest opinons of Americans, and which Americans are most like by the populace is -- wait for it -- Vietnam. I don't think that will happen in Afghanistan. It's the people, and the culture, not the politics. Final conclusion of Bobby Mac (US sec of defense during Vietnam) years after the fact. "We just didn't know what we were doing." Once again, good men sent to die by total ass wipes posing as humans. Like George Bush (the stupid one), if you haven't noticed he is the one who was the chief that fucked up everything both foreign and domestic. Clears a couple hundred thousand to speak at dinners now. Just another entitled born rich AH like Trump, who ruins everything he touches. Not long ago -- during the Clinton Administration, the USA had a budget surplus -- that's right, that means no deficit -- the opposite of a deficit. Think about that. . . .
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  2918. There is no such thing as a fortress in modern warfare. Fortresses are tombs with KFC.
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  2919. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  2920. Not one thousand dollars or more donors -- one million dollars or more.
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  2921. Just seeing that you quote a sarcastic comment by Musk entirely in a false light shows immediately that you are neither too bright nor trust worthy.
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  2922.  @Jazzmarcel  You obviously know nothing of history and are just another partisan half-educated idiot, spouting mindless incendiary rhetoric. The USA's abuses of power are nothing compared to other historic hegemonic states. Learn some real history, not the story you would like to believe.
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  2923.  @myhhlim  And your "facts" are mere CCP party line propaganda. What happened to whom you describe as the "red Indians" happened all over the world to the primitive inhabitants of the earth when confronted with the technologies that radiated from the first civilizations. It happened to the first Europeans themselves and the second and the Neanderthals before them. This is the nature of life, you can see it in fungus, plants, and all species of animals. The invasive species whom you refer to as the "red Indians" but who were really different incursions of Siberians into an environment, that, coincidentally underwent a massive extinction of species upon their dissemination into the Americas -- these now cosmic environmentalists, were displaced and disrupted by further invasions of native Asians as evidenced in the archeological record. Who, by the way, practiced all manner of inhumane hideous warfare upon one another continually, and took every advantage they could find to dominate, enslave, and destroy other, "red Indians" as evidenced by the expansion of the Comanche Empire upon their development of mounted warfare. As has been natural for all human beings everywhere until modern times. Now, in the eyes of puddin' heads like you, they were nothing but victims of an insanely rapacious and wholly corrupt European invasion. Yet you use an ancient dynasty to justify the invasion of a peaceful nation that wanted nothing to do with China or it's political ideology. This is the same as me claiming that all of Turkey, ,postl of Northern Africa, most of Central Asia and even a little bit of India is really Greek because it was once a part of Alexander's conquest. Grow a brain and step outside of your partisan fantasy of a worldview. Humans are flawed, all humans, susceptible to corruption beyond the common conscience of -- not doing to others what you would not want them do to one's self. It is a rare person who is not corrupted by power, all governments are an enriched culture for corruption, China is no different. China now has a dictator for life with almost unchallengable power, and total power corrupts totally, he is no exception. He has a narrow window in which to act because of China's demographic timebomb and it seems He is willing to advance aggressively as much as is convenient and possible, just like the USA did during the days of "Manifest Destiny" Before the Japanese invaded Manchuria and lite off WW2 they also felt the pressure of having a limited time to act in which to establish their empire. We know what that came to.
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  2924.  @myhhlim  You do not care at all about reality -- you only want to argue with rhetorical dialectics. You have absolutely no understanding of what I wrote and do not deserve the time I took to write it. No surprise there. It was merely a study in absurdity from the start as is all conceptual commentary on anything.
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  2925.  @myhhlim  Fools believe what they will. You are proof of this. Like Trump you accuse the real news of being fake news and his biased, insane, wholly pecuniary based views as truth. You need to get a new job that is not part of an active measures propaganda initiative. We have real facts hidden amongst the disinformation, you have only partisan spin and intentional disinformation to which you have no viable alternative. I sympathize for your brainwashed plight.
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  2926.  @myhhlim  The real double standard is that people are risking their lives to get into the USA. People in the USA have access to the real internet, all opinions, and all possible views. People who live in China only get the disinformation the CCP approves and everything is censored by the government, even children's cartoons. We have seen it before, the world has seen it before. It's called authoritarianism, and totalitarianism. You don't even seem to know that XI is now in power for life. So basically you have no real knowledge of the actual state of affairs. I bet you have no idea how many of it's own people the PRC has murdered. A country where even the public mention of the T massacre is forbidden. In opposition to a country were every injustice is publicly exposed and tortuously examined. You don't even have a free press, everything is controlled by the propaganda machine, and you turn and point at the failures of the US media -- get real.
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  2927.  @zalishaabdool6671  Ellipses are three periods separated by three spaces not just three dots. Since you like them so much that you use them completely unnecessarily I thought you should know the proper usage.
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  2928.  @oonie1576  America is not perfect, no doubt about that. But if you ask a hundred random people from other countries if they would rather live in China or the USA -- if one of them chose China it would be amazing. I would not change China, the people in China love authoritarian rule and to have their every move and action scrutinized and scored. They would be lost if they actually had freedom. Oh, wait a minute, HK and Taiwan do not want it. I could be wrong.
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  2929.  @oonie1576  The Chinese government does not provide basic needs to the populace. In fact if you dismiss the propaganda, the USA is actually more socialist than China. China has nothing like Medicare or Social Security benefits. You are obviously a dupe of some kind of propaganda. And though China has the second biggest economy, the personal income of the average person is abysmal. Their is not even a fair comparison between the poor in China and the homeless in the USA. Many if not most of the homeless in the USA are eligible for housing and other benefits but choose not to participate. The news media and all media in the USA is open to all reports and opinions, China has to control all information or the people would raise up and get rid of the CCP if they knew the truth about what is going on. It comes down to this: the old truth that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In China you have a dictator for life. Nothing more need be said. He is entirely corrupt. People are not even allowed to say he looks like Pooh Bear. But you are right it should be up to the Chinese what they want to put up with. And it should be up to the people in HK what government they want, and the people in Taiwan what government they want, and the people in Tibet what government they want, but it isn't. Because China is authoritarian and expansionist and doesn't give a damn what the people want. When given the choice to be free or a part of China no one has yet freely chosen to be part of China. And don't pretend that you live in China, if you did you couldn't even see YouTube unless you were breaking the law, or some kind of paid dupe for the party.
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  2930. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. And you CNN, are a big part of it. In fact people will come to recognize that you are a key member of the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN
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  2931. The Dems climate policies is such bull. No single entity whether private of public has done more to mitigate greenhouse gas production than Tesla dispite what some foaming at the mouth woke nitwits believe, and the Biden adm. is actively trying to destroy them in favor of the manufacturers who would have never produced a viable EV if not for Tesla, and who produce their vehicles in Mexico. The cars with the most US content and labor is Tesla by far, but Musk doesn't play the bullSh!t political game. I will never vote for a Dem as the lesser of two evils again. Fu@k Bidden and the horse he rode in on.
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  2932. Coal is still being mined like there is no tomorrow, just burned elsewhere.
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  2933. Spoken like a Trump drone who can't even come up with anything factual or original himself. How does it feel to be a carbon copy of an imbecile?
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  2934. Not true, the program wasn't playing pong at superhuman levels. Everyone who plays pong knows that it is good to dig a tunnel and put the ball behind it. The only thing that humans lack is the hand eye coordination to do that all the time. Though in my youth there were some guys that could do it lots of the time. The AI has no hand eye coordination, so it is an unfair comparison it merely puts the paddle where it needs to go digitally, it doesn't need to develop a skill, just a strategy.
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  2935. Sorry, the radical right would severly out-gun the left and would support Stump in your juvenile fantasy.
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  2936.  @intricatic  During the first thermonuclear, hydrogen bomb test, a few scientist thought that was an outside possibility.
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  2937.  @jeep1987  But it will ignite the fumes before that happens.
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  2938.  @midnite135  Well, Joshua, I have been known to use that expression, but I usually reserve it for right wing radicals that call double blind clinical studies and meta-analysis by the Cochrane Library fake new, but boldly exercise their liberty by accepting memes coming form a couple of stoners living in their mom's basement with the name of Q as the real hidden truth. Which is to say, I don't really know who I have called a puddin' head. ???
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  2939. Most American cars sold in the USA: 1 Tesla Model Y (Fremont, Calif., or Austin, Texas) 2 Tesla Model 3 (Fremont, Calif.) 3 Lincoln Corsair (Louisville, Ky.) 4 Honda Passport (Lincoln, Ala.) 5 Tesla Model X (Fremont, Calif.) 6 Tesla Model S (Fremont, Calif.) Four out of six of the cars sold in the USA with the most American parts and Labor are Teslas. Tesla has even relocated much of it's German battery manufacturing to the USA. Guess who is primed to win billions in gov subs?
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  2940. Gee I sure hope president Trump's bone spurs are not affecting his golf game. How would club 64 have got along without him if he had served when called-up? If you know anything about the Trump family you know that they consider anyone who serves in the military as fools. Even Hitler served but not our silver-spooned fascist. Still his cultists will glory in their own stupidity and find delight in making intelligent people nonplussed when confronted with the depth of ignorance of the Trump supporters. It's like having stupid cantankerous children running the nation.
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  2941. Wadda ya mean "we"? It's the fucken thieving Republocrats that refuse, not any we that I know of.
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  2942. We know that Putin is enormously wealthy. That he uses those close to him to act as shills in legal scams involving dummy corporations and other ways to hide wealth. Elon Musk, who is suppossed to be histories wealthiest man, has claimed that Putin is much richer than he is himself, and I believe this to be true. My question is how much of Putin's obscurated personal wealth is invested in US and NATO defense industries? I have heard rumors that it is quite a bit. But would even Putin engage in war to stimulate profits in the defense industries of his enemies to increase his personal wealth? Now that would be a real judo move.
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  2943. Yeah but can it play CRYsis?
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  2944.  @tieler2  Totally agree. In Switzerland many people have fully-automatic military weapons in their homes. No mass shootings at all. I personally think that the answer would be to give anyone who publicly tells a lie in the mass media a fine of one tenth of their total worth (I just made that up but it's still better than what we have now -- people being lied to from every quarter.) Democracy cannot possibly work in a culture of lies and spun stories. Our almost every elected official is proof of that statement. Every news person who reports a false story or puts some insinuating spin on one should be fined. Any politician who lies or just makes stuff up and says it publicly should be deported for ten years, after they are fined, and bared from employment in any firm that operates in the USA.
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  2945.  @deanjones2525  Right-wing nut cases will still kill people even if you get rid of all firearms. They will take a tip from Islamic fanatics and just roll huge trucks and other appropriate vehicles into crowds of people they hate. If you hate people in California (for example) because they are liberal kooks you just toss a match out your car window. Get real, there is always a way to injure masses of people, at least when someone uses a firearm it is just a local event. If someone poisoned a water reservoir or something like that shootings would pale in comparison.
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  2946.  @paulqruel9290  Says, just another trump cultist who is so stupid they can't realize how dumb they are. Anyone who can't see through the conman that trump is, is a freaking idiot. The great supporter of our military, daddy got him a fake deferment out of Vietnam. The great populist -- wouldn't be caught dead with the 99% of the imbeciles that supported him. Yeah, while your daddy and my friends were being sacrificed in Vietnam, your hero was snorting coke with the in crowd at studio 54, you antiAmerican antidemocratic imbecile.
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  2947.  @juanmartell47  Whats right wing is the lie he is repeating. A right wing nut lie. Just like most of the crap the right wing nuts believe. And just to be clear, I an not a lefty or a liberal, I despise the left and the right wing nuts.
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  2948.  @monad_tcp  Minds are on an ego-trip. The "mind" is a thin veneer on the actual being. There is no such thing as a mind without what produces it. If you could copy the habitual automatic flow of association, which most people consider to be their minds and indeed themselves, it would be an automaton without the possibility of self-awareness. It would even lack the possibility of realizing it is insane. Which it would be. The thought that there could be an unbound ego or "I", a spirit, is a fantasy. A conceptual conceit of an automatic function that was developed as a survival mechanism. https://www.youtube.com/@Vision-ey6fi
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  2949.  @erickuelker5079  Probably, but humans also use hearing, and kinestetic sense of g forces to drive. Not that Tesla will need to, but we do. They probably already use accelerometers anyhow in the safety systems.
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  2950. 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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  2951. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN
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  2952. They got that wrong. . . . Should be: } { or }{
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  2953.  @wittiza2102  Original approach: as opposed to just deleting a mistake you keep it and make a little footnote. Makes one wonder.
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  2954. Maybe Germany should start up it's nuclear plants again, and let Telsla produce electric vehicles. Oh wait -- that would be too intelligent.
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  2955. 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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  2956. China is pretty much doing the same thing to Russia that Russia did to Ukraine before the actual shooting began. Little groups of a hundred thousand or so are sneaking into Russia. The problem is that the future for both China and Russia is dismal to say the least. As Russia is forced to shut down it's pipelines in order to prevent their self-destruction when the west refuses to further fund their war though fuel payments, it is expected to take a minimum of ten years to get them up again. But that would be with the help of western experts and corporate interests that have fled Russia. There is no practical way for China to import Russian oil, they are dependent on the middle east and the navigational choke points that are held by various states that are not at all friendly toward them. And of course both China and Russia are on the verge of an unrecoverable population implosion. As well as, given the fact that, given the opportunity any Russian with talent or expertise flees Russia. Then there is the matter of the ramjet guided artillery shells that are or have been (no one really knows) developed by Nammo in Norway, which is about to become a NATO member. This and another analogous effort by Raytheon should be able to out distance similar Russian guided rounds by 20 or so miles. And of course Canada just gave Excalibur rocket propelled guided rounds and the mobile artillery that can fire them to Ukraine. This in itself will be a game changer in coordination with the "Ghost Phoenix" drones the USA is supplying. These shells do not quite have the range of similar Russian rocket propelled guided shells, but are deadly accurate, and have been used successfully by the USA in conflicts world wide.
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  2957. AT&T owns CNN. AT&T can be trusted as much as their tech support. That is, not at all. They have traditionally acted like fascists and CNN continues this tradition by presenting a false view of reality in the very fabric of their news. All the news with the exception of that to be found on decentralized media is owned by scumbags. The Real News Network, Secular Talk, sometimes Democracy Now, and the Jimmy Dore Show: all constantly reveal the contrived insanity of the corporate owned news media. These people you are listening to are all millionaires and wanna-be millionaires. What would possibly motivate them to tell the truth about the power-elite? This is all just a distraction while Mercer and assorted bankster remake America into their insane psychopathic feudal hell as they divide and conquer the masses over and over with the same cheap tricks. And you fucken geniuses never catch on.
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  2958. The most despised woman in America says that nobody likes the candidate who has received more donations than any other in all of history. I would say that Clinton is in desperate need of an intervention -- but probably has no real friends.
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  2959. Bernie will crush Trump if the DNC doesn't cheat him again.
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  2960. I must confess. I. . . am the Bernie Bro. No. . . I am Bernie Bro. I am Bernie Bro. I am Bernie Bro, , , and so on. (recited to the tune of I am Spartacus)
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  2961. If you believe this, you are a fool. The other elite perverts had him murdered.
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  2962. At 1829 he checks the mirror to see if that cop is gonna light him up.
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  2963. The Chechen and Wagner dudes need killing badly. A hellfire slice and dice would be nice, but I guess a more subtle approach is more pragmatic, maybe some radioactive toxin in the vodka, though microwaving their brains has its attractive qualities too, IF, anyone would actually tell the difference in their behavior afterward.
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  2964. They have a long way to go to catch up to the harm that Monsanto/Bayer has caused with glyphosate (round up) Under the guise of "no till" farming they have manged to poison every human being on the planet. Pesticide residue controls carried out by EU Member States in 2016 analysed 6,761 samples of food products for glyphosate residues. 3.6% of the samples contained quantifiable glyphosate residue levels with 19 samples (0.28%) exceeding the European maximum residue levels
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  2965. Here's the news: A compulsive liar has been lying, and the people who report about the compulsive liar are shameless, and apparently brainless rumor mongers trying to gain ratings to increase the profit they make selling commercial time. Both the compulsive liar, the networks, cable networks, and popular mass media are almost entirely owned by the same people who own the various politicians (including Trump). They present an apparent adversarial relationship to the clueless public who is continually brainwashed by their spin and lies 24/7. This fake dichotomy: liberal/conservative, pro-trump/anti-trump, religious/pragmatic, up/down, right/wrong, true/false is continually infused into the collective awareness, in order to keep them divided and in conflict, so that a hand full of megalomaniac auto-compulsive psychopaths and their deviant sycophant enablers (including police and military that are willing to violate the rights of private citizens) can maintain the stranglehold they have over the wealth and destiny of humanity. And you all fall for it continually -- continually. . . . even the smart ass critics among you are deluded by the human nervous systems natural tendency to divide everything into two opposing vectors, simply because the nervous system itself operates on opposing charges we have designated as positive and negative in the ionic sphere. The reality is that almost no one has anything outside of the magic circle of these dichotomies to say. Not that I expect anything objective (outside of the scientific disciplines and even that is stretching it) out of humanity at this point, but you should at least know were you stand, if you are capable of that. You stand firmly on the shores of delusions made real by acts they inspire.
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  2966.  nowonyuno  One that is apparently beyond your comprehension. This is evidenced by your immediate need to resort to ad hominem comment. Since of course you do not have anything significant to say when it come to the real issues underlying our present cultural state of affairs. Giving firm evidence that you are one of the deluded mentioned in the original post.
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  2967.  @laureldevine  Resort to ad hominem attacks simply informs that you have nothing significant to say. This is what all persons with the intelligence of children do.
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  2968. "free will" lol. is nothing more than an archaic concept. If you have free will, then you could tell me what you are going to think next, and if you think you can tell me what you are goiing to think next, you are delusional. Which coincidentally is exactly what the concept of "free will" is: a delusion.
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  2969. You are gonna have a long wait. Perhaps in the mean time you should short Tesla stock, so you can put your money where your mouth is: and lose it.
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  2970. Well put.
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  2971. he USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narratives that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues. You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  2972.  @mcnulty9712  You are living in a world of lies constructed by a compulsive liar. If you every wake up you will be ashamed by how stupid you were. But I doubt very much that is possible for you.
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  2973.  @danharold3087  Being lazy and liking to push people around are the two top real reasons people become cops.
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  2974. Reality Check for knee-jerk-liberals: Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer announced plans Sunday to introduce a bill requiring the FBI to approve body armor sales to civilians. The legislation would mandate FBI approval for civilians to purchase body armor Every time issues like this are raised the firearms manufacturers, and in this case body-armor manufacturers experience a windfall of profits and sell all their stock. People who would never have bought a semi-automatic firearm have bought them by the millions as a reaction to the threat of a ban. People who would never have purchased body-armor are now lined up and back-ordering armor: people who never would have thought about it before Shumer's move. Big money is made every time that such legislation is even mentioned. Let's hope the investigators in the Securities and Exchange Commissions have adequate funding. Speaking of stock: In 2012, members of Congress passed the STOCK Act, a bill meant to curb insider trading for lawmakers and their staff. Then when the Securities and Exchange Commission made news with the first major investigation of political insider trading, Congress moved to block the inquiry. But really, should your child have to ask the FBI if she can carry a back-pack that would afford her a prayer of survival if she is caught up in a random act of gun violence? Like those that incorporate a light-weight ballistic panel? The police have armor penetrating ammunition for situations involving armored gunmen. Civilians cannot legally possess such ammunition. The idea that the public will be safer if their ability to protect themselves and loved ones is diminished is ridiculous. It's funny how frequently the public is the victim of irony that proceed from the political sphere of power. Governments are simultaneously the most beneficent and deadly spawn that the human intellect has contrived.
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  2975. You wouldn't need to "take care" of drug users, just stop reviving people who have OD for the second time, and they will take care of themselves -- on the opoids. On cocaine, they will get sick of it, within hours of having as much as they want cheap.
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  2976. You mama dresses you funny.
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  2977. Sandy's playing way out of his league in the fox department.
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  2978. Animal agriculture is responsible for 89% of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. Gee, I wonder what an individual could do that would help reduce them? I guess we will have to consult some experts and watch them debate for a decade or two before we can figure that one out.
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  2979.  @tedbundy2379  Sure you did. . . You made a fortune, that's why your here. To educate the rest of us. . . . moron.
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  2980. Don't forget the Bentley. It has the highest yearly loss of value of all autos, an average of 20k a year. But what luxury!
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  2981. False equivalence is a common result when an anecdotal similarity is pointed out as equal, but the claim of equivalence doesn't bear because the similarity is based on oversimplification or ignorance of additional factors.
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  2982. Biden thinks the unions built the middle class. Truth: the unions built part of the middle class, small family owned businesses built a bigger part of it, the GI bill and a wave of professionals that would have otherwise not had a higher education built a very large part of it. In case someone missed out on the Welcome to Earth Orientation: The one and only motivation of any one who is part of the power-elite, whether political, or business, or religious, or military, is to maintain and increase their power. Doesn't matter if they are a communist or a foaming at the mouth libertarian, that is their only motivation: no matter what they tell the world or themselves. The news media and public officials will now break into small groups and say stupid sh!t until you are all numb, . . . and not comfortably. . . .
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  2983. Thank the millennials, the old Ok boomers shut down the fucken war in Nam. These worthless so called progressives did nothing in 18 years.
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  2984.  @USandGlobal  Ok you proved you are a no nothing puddin' head no need for a response. The facts are there for anyone to find.
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  2985. How? The threat of nuclear war is how. If not for that . . . well put it this way: in a conventional war the state of California alone would take Russia behind the wood shed and whip its butt until it cried for its mama.
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  2986.  @HeroicDose  Definitions don't count for much in the physical reality of war. A superior invader could pull out after having attrided the military and destroying much of the infrastructure of a nation, simply because degrading their effectiveness was the goal. In such a case, and there are many of them, "quitting" overt military action could be defined as a loss by your "definition". Like how according to your definition, the Vandals lost and retreated from the city of Rome. Or how the Chinese lost after having invaded Vietnam to punish it. If you are lost in concepts instead of aware of physical reality almost any narrative can seem plausible.
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  2987.  @愛宕姫-n5x  What the USA suffered in Vietnam was a disastrous lack of vision and awareness by it's policy makers when they first committed "advisors" during the Kennedy administration, or even minor involvement under Ike. But in time the American public became aware of the stupidity of this snowballing action and brought this involvement to an end politically. To think that the USA was defeated militarily by North Vietnam is to believe nonsense.
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  2988.  @jpmangen  The US did not lose one sizable battle during it's involvement in Vietnam, but they did lose when they decided to become involved at all. What did we have to gain there? The US stepped in to stop Vietnamese elections and reunification, which Ho Chi Min would have won in a landslide. Just because of idiots who have only a win/lose, us/them mental capacity. If we had not become involved, at all we would basically have the same Vietnam we have today: without the 50k dead American boys, the mental issues of some survivors, or the years of suffering of the maimed. And what did the then presiding Sec of Defense have to say about the whole thing in retrospect? "We really didn't know what we were doing?"
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  2989.  @BboyJJRuda  You have no idea: The USA was not in Vietnam to establish democracy. The USA became involved to stop a scheduled general election that would have reunited south and north Vietnam, because Ho Chi Min would have won in a landslide.
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  2990.  @HeroicDose  The reality in your head.
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  2991.  @GamesOfficialYouTube  Jimmy Carter found out what happens when you try to downsize the CIA. Your economy goes in the crapper and you lose your job to an actor.
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  2992. If the west stops buying Chinese, China is finished.
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  2993. All over the world things are arranged to insure that psychopaths raise to the top of governments. The leaders ARE the problem, how can you not see that?
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  2994. The only thing that Ukraine can win is to not lose. It can't win anything as long as Russia uses nuclear terrorism in response to any attack on its territory. Maybe Ukraine can cobble together some nukes, then they may be able to make Russia think twice about using nukes if they are attacked. Not losing is not winning.
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  2995.  @johnassal5838  85% of gold production is for jewelry. By girlfriend finds it intrinsically valuable. Me, not so much, but certainly more reliable than Bitcoin.
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  2996.  @bthemedia  Houses need to be insured, and pay local taxes, plus continual maintenance, and if they are not lived in, security, and if they are rented, management. Silver has the volatility it has because it is the most manipulated commodity on the market. The puny billion dollar fine that JPMorgan paid a year ago proves that. Make ten billion tanking silver and pay a billion in fines is good business. They make money on the way down and the way back up. Thus silvers volatility. The only real reason that covid could affect silver is because unlike gold it is largely an industrial metal, but gold tanked too and that makes reverse sense during a market downturn or increased inflation, outside of market manipulation.
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  2997.  @bingosunnoon9341  Yep, but rare earth processing is, or has been until recently extremely toxic, far more than coal, or other common mining products.. Apparently there is a company in CA that has done some outstanding work on this lately. But it holds true, wow onto he who finds he lives atop mineral resources that he does not own title to -- death from one or other toxin without recompense is the probable eventual outcome.
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  2998. Bentley is a car for people with more money than brains. Of all the cars on earth Bentleys depreciate the fastest, an average of 20k per year. Even people with loads of money are usually not that stupid. It doesn't matter at all if Bentleys EV will be faster than a Tesla, not one bit. Real competitive cars don't have to compare themselves to other cars to gain attention, only wannabe cars need to do that. They wannabe a Tesla so bad, but they are five years to late, and always will be.
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  2999. It's more than CO2 emissions, Diesel exhaust is not only toxic it is carcinogenic.
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  3000. I would say that Tesla's recent experience in getting up and running in Mexico is instructive. Now the lines for the new less expensive EV are being built in Austin because of one delay after another. Talk about screwing the golden pooch. . . .
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  3001. Except for the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which all have a higher corporate tax than the USA, more services and higher social mobility than the USA whose economy is continually gutted by banksters.
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  3002. We are not in all the longest wars in American history genius. The war against the Native Americans lasted 75 years. You're welcome jerk.
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  3003. Elon only owns 14% of Tesla. Small retail investors own much more than he does. Your decision to deprive yourself of the only EV worth owning is just silly posturing.
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  3004. Sounds like a plan. . . .
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  3005. The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources: cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The focus on burning fossil fuels is important, but diversionary. Animal agriculture is the elephant shi$$ing in the room, and it includes the massive burning of fossil fuels in it's production and transport technologies. The most important thing a person can do to address climate change, as an individual, is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products (no Ben and Jerry's does not get a pass) leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, our grandchildren will be forced to decide if they should eat their babies in the hope of surviving a few more weeks when crops fail globally. That's the choice: do we indulge our blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered reactive opinions, or do we leave future generations a planet worth living on? Or do we just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things, and put off acting until it's beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of us, even if convinced of the dire reality of the global climate situation, will go on with our rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are we rational moral beings, or just mad machines that really have no control over ourselves?
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  3006. Cash is not even "relatively static". Inflation is a tax that the Fed levies on everyone by transferring our wealth to their magic computer numbers. You don't get to vote on it. It's like the sports and entertainment tax, you pay more for everything because celebrities and big time athletes are payed big bucks to promote products. You have no say in it except to avoid promoted products which is pretty difficult.
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  3007. That's one story here's another. A story about stories and how they rule our lives. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpC09elt3ZrXofamJml6Caw
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  3008. TSMC is presently building 2 huge fabs in AZ. They will provide chips for USA even if Taiwan is invaded.
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  3009. Recycling is EVs friend. Go in your garage, shut the door and turn on your gas or diesal vehicle. Hang out a while. Now try the same thing with an EV -- OH sorry, you won't be able to, because you will be dead. That should tell you all you need to know. And stop asking Jesus to come on you.
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  3010. There is no evidence that UFOs are real because they do not know if the phenomenon they are observing are flying or are an anomalous natural phenomena we are unfamiliar with. They all look suspiciously like unflying objects to me, they look like reflections or something moving like it is not flying but is being projected. Maybe it is even a form of communication from a strange alien other dimensional form of intelligence that we think are flying objects. That would be like thinking that word sounds are cars.
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  3011. Your grandfather had a rather optimistic mistake in his rendition of an excerpt of The Charge of the Light Brigade. The actual quote is ; . . . "Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.". . . . . . not "or die" -- "and die".
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  3012. 85% of the mono-crops farming that you decry as killing so many animals is to produce animal feed -- fool.
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  3013. Morphine or paraghoric was made illegal in the UK because all the coal miners were getting fucked up on paragoric and not buying alcohol. Morphine preparations were cheaper and a much better high. So the distillers had it made illegal.
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  3014. The Stanford Prisoner Experiment should tell us everything we need to know about giving people authority and uniforms and weapons and telling them to enforce order. Even when they know it's an act they become extremely abusive.
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  3015. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpC09elt3ZrXofamJml6Caw
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  3016.  @marybeth6676  Enjoy the heat death of civilization -- rapacious pseudo carnivore
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  3017. I can see why you may think that, but it is not entirely true.
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  3018.  @2639theboss  Actual science has proven that nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of an opposing view posted on line. So it's all just pissing in the wind.
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  3019.  @watchthe1369  Toyota and Honda will be very fortunate to even be producing cars in ten years. They need to step up their game and leave the inefficient ICE behind. ICE: more than 60% of the energy produced by ICE is waste heat that some of the useful energy must be used to get rid of. A Rube Goldberg whirligig that is fading into the sunset. And Toyota is two generations behind in EVs and incapable of even copying Tesla. Though they are now trying desperately to employ Tesla manufacturing tech. Too little to late, by the time they can do that Tesla will be further ahead than they already are because they innovate at a speed the Japanese cannot achieve.
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  3020. Perhaps you missed the clown bus that is packed with Trump's cabinet choices. Or perhaps you lack the ability to distinguish between reality and reality TV.
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  3021. If over three million votes don't matter, what do a few dozen imprisoned terrorists votes matter? As far as the total number of imprisoned people goes you must realize that about half of them are in there because some cop lie-evied in court. Or they had some pot or coke. He is right and so are you. It was an answer that will echo through the whole campaign. But he shot himself in the foot.
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  3022. Wondering how is it possible that many superbly successful and otherwise normal and intelligent people can still be Trump supporters (or perhaps I should say believers) after his tens of thousands of lies and idiotic actions? Well this few minutes of an old Radiolab show about lying and self-deception may explain a lot. And I do mean A LOT. The blinding flash of the obvious starts at 46:57 -- though the entire show on deception is certainly entertaining, this little segment on self-deception is profoundly explanatory about Trump and politicians in general. Slide the slider forward to 46:57 and understand the mystery of the cult of Trump. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91612-deception
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  3023.  @patreekotime4578  Right on. Will be interesting to see the breakthroughs come to EV. Probably racing first. Should trickle down to a consumer jetson roadster in about twenty years. Who wouldn't want a lightweight electric miata with a thousand horses, that could hover and do a WIG down rivers and across bays? It's the first thing I will order when teslabots have revolutionized the economy and the age of abundance and all that. I will just call up GPT47 and tell it my parameters: two weeks later it will show up in my home driveway (now my home staging area/spaceport).
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  3024. We know that Putin is enormously wealthy. That he uses those close to him to act as shills in legal scams involving dummy corporations and other ways to hide wealth. Elon Musk, who is supposed to be history's wealthiest man, has claimed that Putin is much richer than he is himself, and I believe this to be true. My question is how much of Putin's obscurated personal wealth is invested in US and NATO defense industries? I have heard rumors that it is quite a bit. But would even Putin engage in war to stimulate profits in the defense industries of his enemies to increase his personal wealth?
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  3025. Cybertuck "recall" was just another over the air update -- as usual. The cybertruck outsold all the other electric trucks combined -- fools. You can tell that Tesla doesn't pay the billions per year that other automakers pay to the media by the bull crap negative news they always feature, because they are trying to shake down Tesla to pay the ad vig.
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  3026. 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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  3027. GM will not be around in ten years.
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  3028.  @SK-xn1pv  Thanks for the report from the international institute of disinformation. If you could give the documentation of even one of your inane beliefs we could verify that you are a total dupe and unknowing idiot or a payed disinformation troll.
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  3029.  @CD-xo5ju  . . . lol you are so lost down the rabbit hole you are actually entertaining.
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  3030.  @jean6453  Hmm, I have had a fair number of wonderful female French lovers if that counts? Never bothered to learn the language though.
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  3031. Stupid comment of the day award! Why is this a stupid comment? There is absolutely no evidence that the US government smuggled heroin out of Afganistan. But that is just a minor point. More important is the fact that the heroin that was produced in Afghanistan went to Iran, and Europe via traditional means. Though the US government attack on Al-Qaeda was temporarily supported by the Northern Alliance, which was largely heroin smugglers, and the US armed forces apparently did nothing to suppress opium production in Afghanistan, it did not in anyway facilitate the transport and smuggling of heroin, like it is rumored to have done out of the the Golden Triangle during the Vietnam conflict. Also of note is the fact that the international banks that have been washing the ill-gotten gains of drug cartels is not in the least dependent upon heroin smuggling to supply them with billions of dollars to wash. Why would anyone go through the trouble of growing fields of poppies, the incredibility labor intensive practice of collecting the poppy latex, processing it into opium, converting the opium into morphine base, and finally processing the morphine base into heroin, all in clandestine labs and fields, then smuggling it across multiple boarders and making all the payoff along the way, when they could just order the precursors for fentnyl legally from China, synthesize a few grams in Mexico and have enough "heroin" to supply their entire US distribution network for a week? Huh? Why? This is why: because either you care nothing about the actual facts of what is going on, and just want to present an anti-USA narrative, or your are living in the sixties, when poppy fields still mattered.
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  3032.  @nutcheck3  The photos you saw were not of troops guarding poppy fields, they were told not to interfere or destroy crops back when those photos were taken. They just happened to be standing in a poppy fields for a photo op. Hey mom look, here I am standing in an opium poppy field. The Northern Alliance controlled the poppy production in Afghanistan. So since they basically kicked Al Quada out of Afghanistan we did not destroy their fields. There is some evidence that opioids wee smuggled out of the golden triangle during the Vietnam War. Not as a part of any policy, but like the crack epidemic, by CIA operatives that didn't acknowledge any legal restraints on their activities. So maybe some CIA contractors smuggled some drugs out of Asia, and certainly CIA operatives were involved in supporting the Contras with money they made smuggling cocaine into the states, but the US government is not smuggling heroin anywhere, that is just a myth many people would like to believe. Believe me, if the US government wanted to deal opioids in the US, they would just synthesis it in labs already in the country, or better yet in Mexico, they would not smuggle it out of Afghanistan. You can not only synthesis it thousands of times cheaper than growing poppies and refining them to opium>morphine base> heroin> pure heroin, but you can actually use genetically modified yeast to just piss opioids like brewers yeast does alcohol. On the other hand although the US has spent billions of dollars trying to halt poppy production in Afghanistan and bombed over 2000 targets that supposedly served as production and distribution centers, they were largely impotent at curtailing or even suppressing the poppy production. Almost all of which goes to Iran and Europe. The interesting (and real) question at this point is not whether or not the US government smuggles heroin (they don't) it is: will the Taliban, which formerly ended the entire opioid business in Afghanistan last time they ruled the country, now that they have been profiting from heroin production as an income source while they were out of power, reinstate their zero tolerance policy toward drugs? One thing we know for sure is that it will be much harder for the Taliban to ban drugs now that it is their business.
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  3033. Yeah but the reason people leading their "normal lives" is so difficult has everything to do with the one percent and the Trumps that make them even richer and more powerful having stolen part of your money by methods you do not understand that take place in private in back rooms between themselves and their cronies.
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  3034. Or: Scientific knowledge continues to advance exponentially, New Green Tech and AI enriched research and techniques allow both the production of humanoid robots, more ready access to extra-planetary resources, the establishment of self-sustaining colonies off-world to insure the survival of humanity in the near long-term, the extension of human health-span and reversal of aging becomes available and affordable by everyone, we enter an age of creativity and abundance and embark upon humanities golden destiny among the stars. Consensus human conscious awareness evolves to the level only experienced by the enlightened few in the past.
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  3035. In April, for example, Fortum Battery Recycling started operations at a hydrometallurgical plant in Harjavalta, Finland, that claims to recover more than 95% of the cobalt, manganese, nickel, and lithium present in black mass.
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  3036. "Afro-indigenous" Amy despite all her intelligence and heart continues with the nonsense about indigenous peoples. For the tenth time: there are no indigenous humans on earth at this time. We are all indigenous earthlings. There are no indigenous A mericans, Africans or peoples that sprang from any other specific geographic local. We are all an invasive species that moved out of Africa, and the actual indigenous Africans are long gone, defeated and absorbed by their own wondering off-shoots. The use of the term indigenous to describe technologically backward invasive subspecies of humans is insulting to all humans and has NO basis in fact. Wise up Amy.
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  3037. You are obviously too stupid to realize how dumb you are.
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  3038. Moscow was settled by Swedes, perhaps Sweden should take over Russia?
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  3039.  Pat Moore  I can hardly think of a stupider response than yours. I am hardly a bigot, but I bet you are. Also you should really consider learning how to read for comprehension, as your reply is severely lacking in anything approaching it.
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  3040. Don't expect any empathy from Elon, he understands human emotion on an intellectual level and apes it but is totally Aspergers and superficial as hell. But brilliant in his field, which is basically taking over the solar system.
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  3041. Dream on. Even if they convince you that they have shut it down, it won't really be shut down.
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  3042.  @kimberlychappell5555  You mistake realism for cynicism. In reality the sole motive of all the members of the power elite is to maintain and increase their power: nothing else. It does not matter if they are an organizer of a protest or the head of some military strike force. And by the way -- human beings do not have free will, it only seems like that to them. If this were not so, scientist could not tell what a person's actions will be before they decide to act. I know you think you have free will, but it is an illusion, and there is no explaining it to those who are lost in it, as you see to be. Freedom is not found in illusions: only in facing the facts.
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  3043. The USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narrative that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues including this one (though not quite as bad as most). You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and performance in virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  3044.  @upholdsanity3759  lol
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  3045.  @Gerrard_Pike2008  The Korean war never ended, it just wound down, and it pretty much looks like a tie, except for the fact that South Korea is a winner and North Korea is the biggest loser country on earth.
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  3046. Such a foolish thing to write.
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  3047. My own prediction is that sooner than you think, in a few years, none of these demographics will matter anymore. None of them. And you will not have to wait long to see that: AI, robots, and especially E5, will demolish your predictions. None of it will matter in the coming Elysium
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  3048. Will the disbelief in evolution save the Trump cultists from self-inflicted social-Darwinism? Karma's a bitch. Especially when it's you own hate filled hand holding the knife to your throat. Which it always is by the way. (Note to Trump cultists: parts of this comment are metaphor, like all of your holy book.)
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  3049. Sorry Charlie, the "creator" you imagine is quite silent. Any image you may have of a creator is just confusion on you part as you persist in the childish activity of taking mythic metaphor for physical reality. You are desperate to convince others of your inane belief just because it is so wrong.
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  3050. Makes one wonder just what it is that Putin holds over Trump. Sure seems like something he will do anything to keep from coming out.
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  3051.  @yougetaspear7799 Try using words. "fleetched" is not a word.
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  3052. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  3053. It may not have occurred to you that even though China has the death penalty it has not stopped the smuggling or use of drugs einstein.
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  3054.  @llIlIlllII  Because they murder people everyday.
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  3055. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases. Fact: the biggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one simple and most effective action you are capable of that will help: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death. In other words if you are concerned about climate change and you have not made this one simple and easy modification of your rapacious lifestyle, you are just another hypocrite, just like all the people you despise.
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  3056.  @f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis  I guess you just have an overwhelming desire to parade your stupidity in public. This has nothing to do with your idiotic feelings about the facts, or your obvious ignorance about what fascism is. This is a matter of the eminent demise of civilization and the most potent act an individual can take to counteract or delay it. Sorry the facts don't coincide with your juvenile attitude.
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  3057. Seven guns. Wow . . . are you sure you can spare them? Who needs guns when you can have an official EU membership card? Turn the nuclear generating plants back on, get rid of ICE vehicles and transition to green, do what ever you can, but stop financing the Russian military with oil payments. Every member of NATO should help Germany and other countries dependent on Russian gas and oil to transition to energy independence, and eventually an entirely green renewable power system.
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  3058. Tesla models continue to be number one in China, and recently found to have the least problems of all EVs sold in China. Hard to beat beating the rest.
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  3059.  @jasonwalsh3267  You got it. The sooner people wake up to the farce the better.
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  3060.  Trumpty Dumpty your fall is coming!  You are correct the Repubs are shameless in their manipulation of single issue voters on firearms and abortion. This is the only way they can compete: by leading single issue voters to vote against their own best interest and in the interests of a totally corrupt power elite. The Democrats don't trail by much. They are already moving behind the scenes to deny Bernie the nomination no matter what the voters want. The repubs are worse by far but would your rather live in shit or vomit? Either way you end up living in the decomposing corpse that are the result of the war interests that control both parties. Bernie is the only hope at this time.
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  3061. You're just commenting on the puppet, the foil: Mercer is the guy with his hand up all the puppets' butts. Including Trump. Dig a little deeper.
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  3062. Elon the fat cat. Really got fat.
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  3063.  @abraxastulammo9940  Yeah there are lots of Tesla killers, in your head.
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  3064.  @richardmetzler7909  How can you enjoy alcohol responsively when we now know that even one small drink once in a while is toxic to every cell in you body. Alcohol is a plague and all in all a shit drug. People would be better off growing poppies in their backyard and harvesting the pods to make tea, because natural opium is one of the least harmful drugs, which people can use for decades without problems while maintaining a job.
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  3065. How can Putin believe he will not personally pay for this? I suggest he watch the last minutes of Muammar Gaddafi, over and over. I also suggest the bastards who protect him get a good look too. Your own people will not stand for this when they finally become aware of the truth. Even you state internet trolls are all dead.
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  3066. Count to a million one whole number each second = 12 days Count to a billion same rate = 32 years a trillion = 132,000 years. Or give you one dollar each second, twenty four hours a day to get same result. So if you gave me a dollar a second 24/7 for 520,000 years I could pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unless we stay thee a few more years then you have to keep handing out the bills for long after humans are extinct.
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  3067. Who wouldn't trust a man who gleefully threw rolls of paper towels at Hurricane survivors?
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  3068. If FSD ever really works, you could VR your way to the moon on your way to the beach.
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  3069. 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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  3070. I would say the most egregious example of a terrorist organization is Islam as a whole. Their entire history proves this.
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  3071.  @mojomagik8423  From it's very beginning Islam was nothing but an excuse to plunder and enslave other people. Chances are that your own ancestors were given the choice to convert or die, or at the very least exist under intollerable conditions. Read some history that doesn't come out of a lying Islamic organization. For centuries Islam plundered and enslaved innumerable Christians and attempted to destroy them whenever they hold the majority of power. Islam is a curse upon humanity that has set civilization back a thousand years. Mohammed was a liar plain an simple. Nothing but an ancient scam man like Joseph Smith. The only way someone could believe that nonsense is if they are either mentally defective or brainwashed in childhood.
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  3072.  @mojomagik8423  If you think that Islam freed slaves you are brain washed and know nothing about real history. The entire history of the spread of Islam is terror and enslavement.  I think Christianity is not so bad as Islam, but has been twisted by generations of kings and the power elite. Islam was twisted from the very beginning.
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  3073. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOVUo5TYJM&t=9s
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  3074. If you are gonna fact check all Trumps lies you will need a full time staff, and a two hour show dedicated to it each day. Trump can actually lie faster than he can talk. He lies just because he can't help himself, not that he wants to, but he is a compulsive -- that's COMPULSIVE liar. He lies even when it makes not sense, even when it makes no difference to anyone, even when it's against he own best interests. He is the ultimate sock puppet, the ultimate distraction for the profit of the people that have gained the largest transfer of wealth in American history. Guess who that would be? Really -- guess. One person it ain't for sure, is you, and 99 percent of his rube supporters. The Conman in Chief: the punishment inflicted on America by the insanely greedy upper upper, who he has tried to get to keep supporting him with dark money and tactics, by giving them windfall after windfall, and his base of political support: his insanely credulous know-less-than-nothing supporters -- along with the flock of scum-bag sycophant enablers that lick his butt. If you ain't sick to the point of gagging, of ALL TRUMP ALL THE TIME -- then you're probably too dumb to know you're stupid, . . . or very rich.
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  3075. llm and other forms of AI do not and never will have consciousness, unless they are developed from artificial life, complete with an artificial limbic system. Conscious awareness does not arise in the automatic thought-centric associative mind that you mistakenly refer to as "I".
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  3076. These comments are nonsense. These young men should not be allowed out of Russia, they should be leading an uprising against Putin instead of running away.
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  3077. Already been tried in New Hampshire. Now the music sucks there.
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  3078. Well Musk himself sees a future of abundance for everyone, where people will only have to work if they want to, and everything will be more or less free, thanks to AI and humanoid robots, and of course the exploitation of the limitless resources of space. Very likely in our lifetimes, unless you are in your nineties, SpaceX will land a crew of thousands of robots on Mars to prepare it for human habitation, and robot ships will begin mining asteroids.
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  3079. It's all because of the legalized form of corruption we have in the USA called campaign contributions. Dealerships, and dealership investors just sluice money into the coffers of politicians and in turn the politician protect the dealerships from competition from internet sales. Very cozy, very obvious, very criminal in spirit if not in letter. I think this will go under eventually as dealerships go under and the scumbags look elsewhere for their funding.
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  3080. Very high probability that if not for MAD we would have had WW3 fifty years ago. Recent Russian developments in hypersonic and doomsday autonomous weapons are not mentioned. One such undetectable weapon set off on the ocean floor off the US coast would send a 100 meter tall tsunami that would destroy the entire tri state area. The only hope for peace on any large scale like we have been privileged with since the end of WW2 is dependent on making war unthinkable --even by the hawks. The human lust for violence and domination of the enemy mentality that has been instilled in the population by leaders and the one percent whose only motivation is to maintain and increase their power can only be quelled by the threat of wholesale distruction of civilization in minutes. It is most unfortunate but that is the hand we allowed the leaders and power elite (mostly psychopaths) to deal us. So far sane men have not faired well in politics because the populace is driven to insane beliefs by continual bombardment of disinformation from all quaters, and Democracy Now is not exempt from this dynamic (though certainly less culpable than most).
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  3081. Anyone who uses Facebook at all, is simply ignorant of the extreme penetration of their inference engines into their lives and the general evil they amplify in order to fulfill their fiduciary duties to their investors to maximize profits. This is typically known as a convenient excuse to deter the consequences of their evil acts. Compare this to the behavior of Google that released for free the AI derived shapes of all the proteins in human metabolism. Perhaps the most profound medical breakthrough of he decade, and given to the world for free.
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  3082. That was then, this is now. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  3083. You are clueless as to how these bastards cheated the public again.
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  3084. Did not realize this is the old model 3
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  3085. Covid is like a right-wing blessing: It will get rid of the elderly, the weak, the non-white population, in propotions that they love. But it will also kill people at random whose immune system over responds. I have seen one interview with a nurse in tears as she related the incident of a woman who was a Trump supporter dying of covid who did not believe in a covid danger even as she drew her last breath. The ultimate Trump loyalist: able to ignore reality in favor of her need for an authoritarian father figure. You do know that the slogan of the Nazi party was "Germany first." Sound familiar? You can thank Donald Lame Duck.
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  3086. most quotable
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  3087.  @my11badkids78  You can certainly copy and paste comments.
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  3088. Just a hiccup.
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  3089. Jac Flasche Jac Flasche 6 days ago I had to copy and paste this comment for my thoughtful friends here. I really don't know the original author so whoever you are -- bravo. The “billionaire” who hides his tax returns. The “genius” who hides his college grades. The “businessman” who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 years. The “playboy” who pays for sex. The “Christian” who doesn’t go to church. The “philanthropist” who defrauds charity. The “patriot” who dodged the draft. And attacks dead Veterans and their widows. The “innocent man” who refuses to testify. Trump Translations "Many People have told me" = Voices in my head and fictional people have complimented me "A lot of people don't know" = I just learned something most people already knew "Believe me" = I just lied "In Fact" = I'm about to lie "He's a great guy" = I will deny ever knowing this person after they begin to tell the truth about me "MAGA" = Making my pockets fatter off the American tax payers "Nobody knew" = Everyone knew except me "Huge" = moderate to below average in size "Loser" = someone who makes me feel inferior due to their talent or accomplishments "Policy Briefing" = Turning on Fox News "Liar" = Someone telling the truth about me "Fake News" = Real news 30
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  3090. Why stop there. Obama deported over 3 million illegals. Trump deported a little over 800k. I can back up my figures with facts. What is your source? The orange man who lies faster than he can talk? Nationwide under Biden as of October 2023 at least 2.5 million encounters ended in expulsions under the public health policy, and hundreds of thousands have been expelled under immigration law.
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  3091. Andy Ricter has a TV show? Wow. . . too bad.
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  3092. It is. But the one percent make the laws, and the rest cry for justice.
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  3093. The catching on fire lie again. Were you concerned about your gas car catching on fire? It is far more likely to go up in flames than an EV. and hybrids are even worse. The insurance industry has all the facts. This is a typical red herring from the ICE OEMS that are not able to produce a good EV.
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  3094. vaporware
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  3095. I bet your father was vaccinated against polio.
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  3096.  @kathryncasey4114  I think you may find that polio was anything but rare until saint Jonas Salk produced a vaccine. Some people do have very strong immune systems, and if they are in good physical health, their chances of only minor symptoms if they contract covid are apparently good. But that may have been more true before the mutations. From what I have heard delta is killing young people who are in good shape far more frequently than before the mutation. It may sound harsh, but I kind of like the social darwinism that is now taking place regarding those who have refused vaccination because of inane conspiracy theories. Of course the downside to this is that they provide a potential for further mutations that seem to be breaking through to the vaccinated, though with much less deadly results. Personally I got vaccinated in January with Moderna even though I am a healthy seventy year old. So obviously I would recommend that everyone get vaccinated. On the other hand, at this stage, now that the vaccines are available, this pandemic seems to be getting rid of many people who I personally consider to have a net negative effect on the county and the advancement of human culture in general. So as callus as it may be, I have mixed feelings about whether they get vaccinated or persist with their stupidity.
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  3097. Joe should tattoo his head.
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  3098. When I was a kid I had a toy Nike Zeus anti missile base that shot a plastic missile. I think it was made by Ramco.
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  3099. 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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  3100.  @vickihaynes2788  Spoken like a paid Russian active measure. Vicki Hayes my ass. . . .
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  3101. Many Trump supporters are already "cocooned in a matrix-like world of illusion." No AI was necessary. Just a lot of money that doesn't want to pay taxes and the less affluent dolts who are more than willing to drink the koolaid.
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  3102. This is great on one hand and it is total bullshit on another. The world has to step up in Ukraine. The entire world is being held hostage by nuclear blackmail. It is the biggest bluff of all history. Russia will not use nukes unless Russia is attacked within it's boarders. When asked if he would respond in kind to a nuclear barrage that hit Russia if, it's response would end human civilization Putin responded, "Of course, what would the world be without Russia?" The correct answer to that question is: "Better". The world would be a better place for everyone without Russia, and though they don't know or won't admit it, it would be a better place for Russians most of all. Why have the leaders in the free world lost their balls, especially Germany, remember the wall, you gutless German leaders, remember the Berlin crisis, were would you be today if the free world had not defied the soviets? Still in hell eating bowls of tears that's where.
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  3103. He said he would encourage Russia to do anything they wanted to them. He is an asshat of unparalleled dimensions, and he shits his pants in public all the time and smells like it. One thing that Trump has done, is he made it fashionable for people to be proud to be stupid.
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  3104. Please clarify your statement. It doesn't make any sense to me as written. Are you talking about in the USA or worldwide?
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  3105. What an incredible bunch of nonsense.
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  3106. What a clown. Someone must have told this guy that his hyperbolic presentation was cute: probably his mom.
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  3107. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  3108. "full list" -- lol
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  3109. Psychedelics may be the only way that enough people can transcend their limitations to once again introduce sanity as a norm in civilization. I personally have experience with them back in the late sixties early seventies, I have also been involved with the so called "work" for many decades. I have had spontaneous "awakenings" that made even the strongest psychedelics seem childish -- but, though I haven't used it for decades I must confess a lingering affection and predilection for heroic dosages of peyote over all the others I had experienced. Be that as it may, I could now tell someone in very few words exactly how to "teleport" to the top of the mountain without exogenous recreational molecules. And guess what: that exact information is meaningless to 99,999 out of 100,000 people. There is simply no there there for them. So perhaps the temporary and exogenously produced psychedelic experience is the closet they will ever get to a cosmic refresh. And that is exactly what our culture desperately needs at this juncture. Oh, by the way, the question that can actually intimate transcendence is not "Who am I?" That is largely the net you are stuck in. The more proper question (for someone serious about conscious evolution) is "What is "I"?" Good luck.
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  3110. If the first part were true everyone would be driving an EV because they are so much less expensive to operate and some, like Tesla have finally come down to below the price of the average new ICE car price. But the public is willing to spend whatever it takes to put gas in their huge pickup trucks and SUVs which are driven with one person and no load over 95% of the time, instead of buying a sensible car, and renting a truck for $20 a day on the two days a year that they actually need it.
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  3111. I love the Peter Sellers analogy, but of course it would not necessarily be a "terrible" movie, it could be a good Peter Sellers movie, could be quite funny. I would pay to see a comedy based on Trumps tenuous grip on reality and the scurrying sycophants that insure that no one points out that the emperor has no clothes.
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  3112. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  3113.  @Eat-Meat-Live-Strong  Thanks for sharing, now finish the dishes.
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  3114. People always talk about the coal towns in Kentucky and West Virginia. Try the hard coal region of PA. The oldest poorest coal towns in the country. Try Shamokin or Shenandoah if you want to see poor and down and out whites.
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  3115. There are no indigenous people in the Americas, nor in Europe, Asia, Australia, nor any longer in Africa. All humans found outside of certain river valleys in Africa are an invasive species and due to migration, displacement, and climate changes, even present day humans to be found in these regions are not indigenous. What you refer to as indigenous peoples are merely a technologically unsophisticated invasive species. Your continual failure to admit the truth regarding human populations is just more spin. And your news, though better than the cable channels, is saturated with spin, and impoverished as far as hard facts about such matters are concerned. Democracy Now's narrative never recognizes or mention the fact that the peoples they refer to as ingenious were, in precolumbian times, continually at war with each other. And their methods were totally politically incorrect and brutal. So brutal that the entire idea of surrendering to a victor was not even considered an option. Nobody seemed to want to be tortured as public entertainment for days on end, and handed over to the women and children to have sport with the last of you. If one was lucky they didn't eat you. Of course now, they are peaceful environmentalists. Right -- They were such great environmentalist that one of the major extinction events just happened to coincide with their penetration of and propagation through out the Americas. Just like everywhere else on earth: in the Americas humans appeared, and the indigenous fauna crashed. Gone also are the early European horse tribes. So gone: that they are generally not even known. What really makes me laugh is the way that self-proclaimed sophisticated intellectuals, take claims of sacred mountains and special sacred lands seriously. Either you see the Buddha in a stick of dung (which is to say that everything is sacred if you are) or your are just spinning bullshit. And the narrative that Democracy Now spins about these remnants of stone age tribes is pure bullshit, probably derived from Hollywood's revisionist romantic fantasies about them that began appearing in the seventies. I would recommend Empire of the Summer Moon as an informative and engaging peek into the horribly brutal reality of the behavior exhibited by these tribes toward each other and the newer invaders from Europe. Give up your puddin' headed notions: born out of your own yearning for a more authentic existence in the face of the omnipresent media mind-fuck you live in. 1
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  3116.  Brooksian Humanist  That is the science -- fool.
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  3117. I don't know where you live, but where I live (eastern central PA) there are signs in front of virtually every business and plant begging for inexperienced workers to start at from $15 to $23 per hour. Many with a signing bonus.
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  3118. Bernie must realize that if he runs on a more open immigration policy he will lose. The same rust belt morons who voted for Obama then Trump, the ones that allowed Trump to win, will not vote for an immigrant friendly platform. I realize that this is a hard pill to swallow, but the most progressive agenda that can still win is to profess an enforcement of the laws as they stand now and in the future. This is an issue that will lose the election for a progressive candidate. It sucks, but it is true. Please do not ignore this fact because it seems unfair.
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  3119. Joe I will maintain my stupidity and ignorance in the face of all evidence Rogan
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  3120. You better get out of their Pete: Trump is going to bomb Mexico.:face-green-smiling:
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  3121. In general China is not only idiotic for not importing vaccines when they are not capable of producing an effective vaccine, but due to the Geopolitical reality and the demographic cliff they are screwed in general. Ziehan predicts the end of China entirely in just years. If this happens I wonder what will become of Tesla China?
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  3122. Put a dummy or passenger in the other seat with a fake steering wheel.
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  3123. Bigga Boom -- MULTIPASS . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Y87ng995c
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  3124. This reminds me of the questions in IQ tests "Which one of these things does not fit the set?" Let's see: battery development -- real resources expended for improvements in a real product, EV evolution -- real resources expended for improvements in a real product, genomic research -- real resources expended for improvements in a spectrum of products, crypto -- real resources expended in the pursuit of a fictional product. Hmmm, which one doesn't fit? Beats me.
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  3125.  @turtley8883  maybe -- but ultimately the market may stop it. AS I understand it, most of the computing involved in mining is just busy-work. The government of Western Australia issues crypto backed by physical gold, I find that an intriguing issue, that never really got any play.
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  3126. The only and entire reason for your complaints is the lynch pin of all the legalized corruption we now accept as business-as-ususal: campaign financing. That's it, non sexy and as boring as the power elite want you to find it, yet this is how they own you, and the government, and in time everything else.
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  3127.  @yagiznebioglu1852  The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources, cars, planes, electric plants, etc.: combined) The most important thing you can do as an individual to address climate change is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, your grandchildren will be forced to determine whether to eat their babies to survive a few more weeks when crops fail globally. Your choice, indulge your blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered mindless opinions, or leave future generations an earth worth living on. Or you can just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things like Bezo's money and ignore the situation until it is beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of you, even if convinced of the reality of the global climate situation will go on with your rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now -- are you a rational moral being, or a mad machine that really has no control over yourself?
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  3128. I will check it out. The average person in the USA if not everywhere these days is history challenged. For instance not many people know that Russia, or the USSR was responsible for the biggest genocide that ever took place, and it happened in Ukraine, where peasants were starved to death by the millions (about 7million by some estimates) due to their policies. People too weak from starvation to walk were thrown alive into mass graves and buried. etc.
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  3129. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  3130. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention?
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  3131.  @dannyboy-vtc5741  You mean Dutch tooling.
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  3132.  @TheReferrer72  I would say that America has had more of its tech stolen than any other country, by far, including the atomic bomb and stealth. There are entire active measures units in both foreign allies as well as foes whose only purpose is stealing American technology. India is rife with lies in their popular media that are planted by Russia and friends, like the CIA started AIDs etc. The India press does the rest of the "free" world one better when it comes to distortion and bias and incompetence verging on hysteria in its news media. It is a virtual megaphone for Russian propaganda.
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  3133.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  That's one way of looking at it. But only a way, and only a way of looking. Some people divide everything into right/wrong, good/bad, up/down, my side/ your side. There is a word for people who turn everything into conceptual dichotomies and counterpoint ideological discourse, while at the same time not seeing the forest for the trees or even the trees for the bark that their noses are so firmly pressed up against: stupid.
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  3134. Lol, excellent point.
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  3135. Why does this guy act like that?
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  3136. Blinding flash of the obvious: the pipelines from Russia to Europe run through Ukraine, yet no sabotage? . . .
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  3137. This is the man who called for the death of drug users while he had his secretary out coping illegal opioids on the street. And his wig sucks.
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  3138.  @ItsJoKeZ  Blindsided you will be, as exponential is beyond thee.
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  3139. Tesla is the only company outside of BYD that can produce an EV at a profit, more profit per unit than any company but Mercedes. When the traditional OEMs build an EV they loose money on every unit plus they don't sell the ICE unit that they use to make money on.
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  3140.  @mediaterrorists8969  Well, if you define an assault weapon as a rifle capable of full auto then it is not. However some of the very first Nazi assault rifles were only capable of semiauto functioning, and they were the people who came up w9ith the terminology, so strictly speaking you are incorrect.
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  3141.  @mediaterrorists8969  We do not have a left-wing government. And we just barely had a right-wing one. Though the gov of both parties have been moving to the right politically since Reagan. If we were living in the 1930's I would be able to order a Tommygun from Sears. And I would order a hundred of them.
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  3142.  @prich0382  How so?
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  3143. Just hit the button that stops the notifications from channels you don't want to view einstein.
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  3144. You do know that Trump is responsible for the timing of the pull -out. He conferred with the Taliban, which was not even the government at the time, and committed the USA to pulling out, Biden only postponed the move by a few months. Of course if you live in a world of the lies of a monumental AH you don't know that and won't believe it even if all the facts are there to see.
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  3145. Peter's so Pretty in Pink -- except for the silly glasses.
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  3146. They say they don't want it, but hey still shop at China Inc. I mean Walmart.
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  3147. @Mason 'The Fib Doctor' Marangella I hear you. For a little while I was of the notion that the whole thing is social Darwinism in action. But really, tens of millions of the people who won't get vaccinated and deny facts in favor of fantasies that appeal to their feeling, would have to die in order for the USA to reach herd immunity against stupidity. So . . . that notion lost it's appeal.
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  3148. @Mason 'The Fib Doctor' Marangella Sad affair. The uber-functionality of the epigenetics manifestations of democratic decisions cannot work in the absence of truth and facts that are not obscured by disinformation and spin.
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  3149. @Mason 'The Fib Doctor' Marangella No geniuses here abouts but Let me put it this way. If a large enough number of people are asked to guess how many jelly beans are in a huge urn, the average of all guesses is usually more accurate than any single guess. This phenomenon would also apply to political choices in a democracy, IF all the information that the electorate had about any given issue were just actual facts unobscured by spin and disinformation. \ In this way even though the complexity of any particular issue was beyond the comprehension of the individual members of the electorate, the same kind of epigenetic function that allows something like an ant colony to preform complex behaviors far beyond the behavioral repertoire of any individual ant, would come into play in the results of issues that were voted upon. . . . sorta
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  3150. Unless you are a party member and something like a steel worker, then you are set up for life no matter how you produce.
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  3151. 28:30 . . . 29:36 -- Because there is no nothing. Nothing is only a concept, and a foggy one at that. And we all know that fog does not qualify as nothing. I think P. Crunk said something like that.
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  3152. Jimmy Trump cultist magnet Dore
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  3153. Much of the engineering that has gone into Teslas is also of German origin.
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  3154. Interesting fact: The Nazi parties campaign slogan on their rise to power was "Germany First".
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  3155. Nope, Tesla events like this, including beats in the quarters have mostly been simultaneous with a dip in Tesla stock value. I was posting a month ago on Tesla channels that this will not bring a higher valuation, but the traditional dip. For those who have the ability to do HFT and have the right logarithms there are fortunes being made because of huge fluctuations in Tesla stock prices day to day and week to week. But over the long haul Tesla is better than gold, if the government does not interfere.
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  3156.  @AKing69  It's kind of hard for some people to do that, when the wholde of their subjective existence consists of nothing but whining.
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  3157.  @AKing69  Well if you are going to whine about all the whining that goes on around here, you have a lot more whining to do.
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  3158.  @FrunkensteinVonZipperneck  It's the company that owns Yahoo that is shorting Tesla (the poster claimed) So they manipulate the Yahoo News to give them an edge. I really think this may be a wide spread tactic, but cannot find a way to tell which companies short Tesla. If we could, it would then be an easy matter to find out if they have stock in major media and financial media that are continually broadcasting lies and misdirection.
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  3159.  @carholic-sz3qv  If the furnaces that melts the aluminum ingots were converted to electrical induction as proposed in TOP why would it need gas? Answer: it wouldn't. It would be an enormous undertaking - that is true, unless the power was supplied by nuclear plant restarts in Germany, then big but not so much new construction and infrastructure. It would of course be less disruptive to order future presses already set up to use induction instead of gas when developing additional capacity. This is not rocket science. It has been done for decades in all manner of pot furnace construction, from glass to aluminum. It is even used in artist studios as well as industrial apps throughout the world.
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  3160.  @martinoamello3017  Like the MC5 said in 68. . . "Strike a match for freedom."
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  3161. The truth about climate change is that greenhouse gases are the main cause of global warming. The truth about greenhouse gases is that 87% of the greenhouse gas is produced by animal agriculture. The truth about fighting for the future of civilization is that it is a far more significant act to stop buying and using the products of animal agriculture than it is to march and bitch about any of the many different processes that in total, combined, only account for 13% of the greenhouse gases that humans produce. The truth about humans is that they would rather bitch and moan or ignore the situation until the choice is not whether one should adjust their rapacious lifestyle to have a diet that is plant based, but rather whether or not their grandchildren should eat their babies in order to live a little longer. The truth about ignorance, is that the new form of ignorance, such as that proudly exhibited by the Trump cultists, is not the lack of facts, but rather, total immunity to them.
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  3162. You mention Robert Mercer as former IBM researcher that said, "There's no data like more data." But you failed to mention that Mercer developed the high frequency computerized traiding that harbored the Medallion Fund investors at Renaissance hedge fund about 80% return on investments year after year. Only executives at Renaissance were allowed to invest in the fund. You also fail to mention how Mercer used his fortune and Cambridge Analytica to harvest data on American voters, use it to advise the Trump campaign, and basically fixed the election against the majority of voters to put Trump in office even though he lost the popular vote by about seven million. All because Mercer is a sociopath who would rather see the USA fail than pay taxes. He is the real money behind Trump's fake money. He is the money behind Bannon and a hundred fake new organizations that are ripping America apart by spoon feeding disinformation to the rubes.
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  3163.  @Marcus_Sylvester  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide So basically you are wrong about everything your wrote. I mean ridiculously incorrect. Your consumption of disinformation would be funny if it weren't so tragic. "Stalin Era" what a joke, it doesn't matter what you call tyrannic evil, its all the same.
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  3164. So what have you done?
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  3165. Prediction: We will figure out exactly how they cheated, then we will figure out the next way that they cheated, and the one after that, and so on: with a factual and rational narrative about the qualities of people who would do such things. We will even say, "They said it couldn't happen here.": out of ironic gallows humor. Maybe at times their cheating will be so outrageous that hundreds of thousand of people will march or occupy something, but amazingly, almost miraculously Mitch and Lindsey, and the rest of Caligula JR's little unholy Greek chorus will retain their offices, and they will go on cheating and bullying and claiming that the law is what ever they think it is at the moment. And we will figure it all out. And you will make it funny and entertaining. But now we have reached a point in politics where: as in the attempt to transcend one's own habitual mode of mental functioning: knowing doesn't matter. You may know that the associative functioning of the thought-centric mind is mechanical, but that doesn't transcend or transform anything. So it is with our political system. We have known forever that it would be best to get all money out of politics if the most ethical and fair government is what you want. We have known forever that proportional representation is superior to winner-takes-all seesaws. We have known that the banks are incapable of regulating themselves and that the wealth of the nation is being sucked up by the military industrial professional political worker complex, that the drug war is a farce that has created the first billionaire criminal organizations. In our hollowed out lives, news has become entertainment. And the fantasyland they present to the public is a poor substitute for what should have been the golden destiny of mankind on earth and in regions beyond.
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  3166. I always measure my ice tonnage in elephants too.
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  3167. If I had time I would bother to deconstruct your adolescent comment. But let me just point out the term "america fetish" makes absolutly no sense if you understand the meaning of the word fetish.
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  3168. History is mostly bullshit by one side or another, including the histrory that you like.
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  3169. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" The sound byte that idiots use as a last ditch effort to find a way to invalidate facts and the truth with gross rationalization -- a fake made-up syndrome used to disguise the intolerance necessary to support Trump as he distracts the public and media while his bankster buddies steal your children's future.
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  3170. Your spin is bull. If there were only a few hundred soldiers willing to fight, as you say, then it was exactly an unwillingness of the military to fight that caused them to be overrun. Don't worry though our military industrial complex loves to lose vast quantities of military hardware and heavy weapons to their enemies. They do it all the time. it's good for their business, bad for the taxpayers, but good for their own wallets.
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  3171. Losing Trump is gonna be like losing the spokesman for the collective id. I despise him, but I sort of hate to see him go. I despise Biden too, and I sort of hate to see him coming. I look at Harris and sort of long for Tulsi, or at least Liz. Bernie broke my heart once too many times, and there has been no actually good man since Nader. Oh well. . . . what I say, think, or who I vote for doesn't matter anyway. But at least I know it. . . . Do you? (Insert semi-hip pop cultural reference here)
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  3172. Not true Joe. It only takes 14 minutes of sun exposure at noon to two oclock from April to September in most of the US to get all the vitamin D you can produce. then the skin stops producing it. This is not the unknown science you present it as. It's just that you and your guest are ignorant of the facts. Unfortunately the rest of the year it is impossible to get adequate vitamin D from the sun, unless you live in Florida or AZ or places like that.
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  3173. The 67 stingray was a way better design. It was beautiful and unique. This looks like every other Ferrari wannabe.
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  3174.  @rlholland3175  I had a 69 with dual holly three barrels, chambered pipes, factory headers, console delete, no radio, endura bumpers in phantom green with the white stripes: no idea what the real HP was, but you could not turn the car off if you used anything but the highest octane fuel, and even then you had to sometimes use the clutch to stall it. Speedometer only went to 120 and was frequently pegged. Car actually handled better at speed with the astro ventilation on and the windows slightly cracked. Rated at 290 HP for insurance purposes. And since it came from the factory without mufflers it was legal in my home state. Despite the massive power at high rpm and the decent handling my 97 miata is more fun to drive, it handles better and you can use the cars entire potential almost all the time, which was not possible with the Z.
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  3175.  @kronosaurelius  BYD is doing OK lately. Starting to sell in Australia and other markets. Tesla produced 158,000 EVs in June alone. That's about half of what BYD did since the beginning of the year. BYD did not get shut down because of Covid, which helped. BYD has a lot going for it, too bad the US government hobbles their US electric bus business.
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  3176. Trumptards rope-a-doped themselves, with a little push from the fearless eater.
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  3177. There is no hope because people would have to largely give up meat and dairy in order to replant the forests that were clear cut for grazing land. Especially in South America, but really everywhere. If the forests were back to the level of growth two centuries ago we would reduce greenhouse gases by 87%. That's how much carbon they would sequester.
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  3178.  @bandit6762  Maybe but the coal pollution Germany replaced it with actually kills hundreds of thousands of people NOW, every year, and the ash is toxic too. People just don't know that they are dying from coal pollution in the air they breath because they can be far away from any coal burning plant and still die from it.
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  3179. If you know anything about the Trump family, you know that they consider serving in the military is something for fools, not for Trumps.
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  3180. Really pretty car but the Prophecy's front end was so much better in every way. Maybe there is some hope that in a future refresh they will return to the more beautiful Hyundai Prophecy front end, or maybe some aftermarket fab will offer something smoother and less pedestrian.
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  3181.  @wolfmantroy6601  If you only count killing it's own populace and not wartime enemies: government is right up there.
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  3182.  @lesliecarter4295  Pretty cool, for a hybrid. But the hybrid part is not the fuel and motors, it is the battery. They add hydrogen but don't burn it. They use it to generate electricity to help power the motors. So really, wouldn't it have been more efficient and less complex to just do battery swaps during a race? They, could possibly just take seconds if fully automated for application in a racing scenario. One thing for sure, no sanctioned event is going to allow any "fan" cars to compete. Maybe someday there will be a breakthrough in the skirt material that will allow it to sort of terrain-follow on a micro level to maintain low pressure. Even the Speirlng's use of redundant fans won't matter if for any reason the skirt looses its seal in a turn.
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  3183.  @vredacted3125  A perfect example of meaningless meaning.
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  3184. ​ @cadenrolland5250 The magnitude of that explosion was most probably from a full store of munitions in the tank exploding simultaneously. In any event you Caden cannot tell what you think you can by viewing this video. A rather sophomoric assumption on your part.
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  3185.  @MrDXRamirez  Sounds good for some, but in general I don't think it will fly. Look at how terrible tomatoes are. I really haven't had even a decent tomato since I left Santa Cruz five years ago. Despite this, I have not grown my own tomatoes, even though no matter how much you pay, the tomatoes suck. Or look at the price of government sanctioned marijuana, just outrageous, still most people do not grow their own, even if it's legal to do so where they live. If I had some land and maybe a few mutipurpose robots (Tesla evidently is working on this) then I would do something like that. But most people won't, so maybe safe food in supermarkets is what we really need.
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  3186.  @MrDXRamirez  Are you not aware that no one is allowed to own land in China? What do you mean there are no mortgages in China? Are you totally unaware of the Real Estate crash that is now going on? Rampant speculation in over valued and unused real estate. Millions have lost their life savings due to real estate speculation. You may be able to have a small farm and be impoverished in China, but you can't own the land, and if the CCP wants to use it you have no say. Not to mention that China has murdered over 50 million of it's own people in recent times. No I think we are much better off. And China certainly does not have a small land mass, especially is you count Tibet. Without Tibet it is as large as the USA.
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  3187. Obviously forbidden ALIEN Tech. Elon was taken up in a saucer when he was a child. He attended nursery school in a hidden enclave on Mars. Explains it all -- no ?
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  3188. Peter is demanding a recount.
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  3189.  P J  Not the point.
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  3190.  @HingerlAlois  You are correct, the initial report I saw was incorrect.
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  3191.  Rob Batr  I am the first to admit when I make a mistake or am wrong about a detail, in this you are totally incorrect.
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  3192.  @trendingnewws  Then the Ukranian anti artillery systems should prevail. Let's hope you are correct in this.
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  3193.  P J  Not at all, rather to indicate how essential the new developments in rocket propelled guided artillery munitions are in this scenario in which the Russians are devastating civilian infrastructure, and perhaps with some luck to be seen by some person or persons to act on this more effectively. And just for the general knowledge of those for whom such knowledge is relevant in an understanding of what is going on and what could develop as a result of advanced technology. Now what is your motivation in questioning my motivation? Looks essentially petty from here.
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  3194. It's not just the radical right that is systemically insane regarding climate change. The prime example is how the nitwit left is treating Tesla. All these protests and thousands of people have done nothing to address the problem compared to Tesla. They are all "bla bla bla" and Tesla actually walks the walk, and what does it get? Back of the line and not even recognized for its enormous and continuing contributions to greenhouse gas abatement. Foaming at the mouth woke puddin' heads who hate Tesla because Musk is rich and showing a way to a golden future for mankind. Ludites who understand nothing of Tesla's breakthroughs and continuing campaign to bring hope of a future worthy of humanity. The appointment of Tesla haters like Cummings to positions that control the industry. Just envious small minds who think that marching in favor of political solutions is an effective action: political solutions that will never take place because the people who created the problem are in control of establishing the perception of a working solution. We have been marching for environmental protection since the sixties and the result is NOTHING. A president who sucks up to unions shops no matter how hopelessly behind the tech that Tesla has developed, who supports FORD (who manufactures their EVs in Mexico (thus the recent modification to the rebates that disregards where they are built, instead of Tesla, which builds cars with the most American parts and labor of ALL vehicles, and a gov. who fails to even recognize the real progress they have made. This last election is the first and last time I vote for a lesser of two evils, the democrats and republicans are both corrupt beyond reform, and need to put a gun in their collective mouths and pull the trigger so the rest of us can return to sanity.
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  3195. The real hypersonic devices are the targeting independent reentry warheads currently used on most MIRV ballistic missiles.
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  3196. In the USA EV battery fires though infrequent, are often dosed with water, which feeds the fire hydrogen gas. How is this even possible? . . . ignorance. It is like trying to put out a gas fire with alcohol. The Russians do not have a monopoly on ignorance, in fact their middle aged and older population, when interviewed on the streets about Putin, sound exactly like the Trump cultists who are interviewed by Comedy Central. I mean their willful ignorance is funny and all, in a comi-tragic way. Love of Putin and hatred for outsiders (western civilization). Love of Trump and hatred of outsiders (those sane enough to recognize a conman wrapped in the flag).
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  3197. The Tesla model Y is the best selling car of any type in the world. It is the best selling car in Sweden too. The people who actually work for Tesla in Sweden want the unions to go away. Read the Swedish news. They know they will be better off without a union than with because the employee stock program will go away. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  3198. Not stuck at all. The lowest price Model 3 when they first came out in 2017 was 35k and the lowest price 3 that you can order today on Tesla web site is $40,390. In inflation adjusted dollars the present price is 5.16% less expensive than it was five years ago.
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  3199. AI will never be conscious: for much the same reason that the automatic thought-centric associative mind that most wrongly refer to as "I" is not actually conscious.
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  3200.  @HighDins  Wall Street smart? Doesn't matter if Trump fits your idea of "street smart" or not. What matters is that he becomes prison-wise.
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  3201. If you really want an ice cream hero, it ain't Ben or Jerry, it's John Robbins.
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  3202. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases, Fact: the biggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one simple and most effective action you are capable of that will help, because you have a flesh addiction that you cannot overcome: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death. In other words if you are concerned about climate change and you have not made this one simple and easy modification of your rapacious lifestyle, you are just another hypocrite, just like all the people you despise.
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  3203. The Trump phenomenon in a nutshell. It's not the first time a NYC conman pulled the wool over the eyes of a bunch of small town rubes (Hitler did the same thing -- the rural Germans who had no idea what he was other than the fact they were sick of the bickering in the Reichstag put him in power) and it won't be the last.
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  3204.  @brenda44414  Hmmm. . . I almost feel like writing some kind of "be not troubled" response. But personally I am much more likely to be debilitated by my own awareness of the repetitious and and quite mechanical nature of my own thoughts than by some primal survival mechanism of nature. Humans have been prey for far longer than they have been at the top of the food chain. Far far longer. I imagine that racial memory affords a certain empathy regarding the situation of other victims of organisms that adopted a predatory genetic strategy.
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  3205.  Ululu Kululu  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bww_LNrJYHs
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  3206. I am not blaming anything on China except that they are a dictatorship, but basically they are screwed.
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  3207.  Ululu Kululu  China would never even had prosperity at all if it wasn't for the west investing and trading with it. If USA ends trade with China, China is dead in the water, but the USA will be fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMtHrpAudQ4 Perhaps you are not old enough to remember, but I remember the Chinese eating the bark form trees because of famine brought about by their fearless leaders. Then Nixon opened China, and they began to prosper, and steal all the tech they were capable of, and not pay for patent use etc, etc. etc.
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  3208.  Ululu Kululu  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3kIsW4KEM
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  3209.  Ululu Kululu  Oh, I forgot, I am blaming China for Covid, despite their underhanded secretive ways, there is just too much evidence that it escaped form a lab in the same city where it all began. Millions of deaths, thank China's totalitarian a holes.
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  3210. What? Were you born yesterday?
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  3211.  @weewahgan6922  Think so? I will give you odds that that is not what happened at all. More likely the Corolla driver drifted off of his side of the road with his front left tire and corrected too sharply to get back on the asphalt which was wet and caused him to slide into the CT. Of course that is just a guess, but not a stupid guess like yours. And just remeber Einstein, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and in my eye you have one hideous mental appearance, physical too.
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  3212.  @lanzer22  I did start with why. You obviously have a reading comprehension problem or you wouldn't have directed your post to the wrong person in the first place. Perhaps you are a noob and didn't deserve to be insulted in the first place, but now you do, for persisting in your error.
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  3213. Hyundai Motors baby. That's who makes the tanks, and good they are.
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  3214.  @michaelcochran9685  no s sherlocl
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  3215. 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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  3216. All most all of those who are getting seriously ill from covid have not been vaccinated. All most all of those people in the USA who have refused to be vaccinated have a magical world-view and are politically regressive. Sort of a glass half-full/glass half empty thing, or one might say social Darwinism in action. Problem is not so much them killing themselves, but most of them still think climate change is a socialist lie and like it or not, we live on the same planet. Eighty nine percent of the green house gases that are going to bring an end to all debate on this, or any subject, are produced by animal agriculture. One guess which political persuasion engenders the lowest number of people who eat a plant based diet? A persons present decision about whether or not to continue supporting and advancing the biggest cause of climate change is not about one's personal freedom, it is about whether or not you want your grandchildren to have to eat their children to live a little longer. But look on the bright side: it will be a wonderful time to be a tyrant, and psychopaths everywhere will flourish like there's no tomorrow, and there won't be. So give thanks for covid and the grand opportunity it is providing for the delusional to cull themselves in the USA.
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  3217. They don't know the difference between communism, socialism, and the form of capitalism known as democratic socialism. All they seem to have learned is the brainwashing that the power-elite spoon feeds fools 24/7. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries are capitalist. Fact: Neither Venezuela, nor Cuba is a social democracy. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have, better and less expensive medical care than we do -- unless you are very wealthy and even then in many cases they are superior. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have free or very inexpensive higher education. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have financial safety nets and inexpensive or free childcare, and maternity leaves for both parents. Fact: All the democratic socialist countries have paid vacations that are usually about five weeks a year. Fact: The citizens of democratic socialist countries are happier than Americans on average. Fact: And this one should just make you slap your face if you have a brain in your head: All the democratic socialist countries have higher social mobility than the USA. That means that if you are born into the lower financial class you have a better chance of ending up rich in Denmark then you do in the USA.
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  3218. Most important news of the year: Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year. Corporate News = more spin based on corporate motives and crickets. LOOK! Click on this link and learn the truth about health care -- all genuine, all documented with interview. Not that facts matter to the Trump cultists but they may to you. @
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  3219. What country are you in?
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  3220.  @guydreamr  And the president that he said agreed to that said that they did not even talk about immigration and that Mexico, "believed in building bridges not walls" when she was asked about it. If you haven't figured out that Trump is a monumental liar by now, not just being Trump, but a compulsive liar, you are living in a wold of a conman's lies.
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  3221.  @anonymoususer520  Their view needs an outlet. It is so much more intelligent than what the cable believers think, that it is difficult to see eye to eye. Why would you want to see eye to eye with people who are basically blind? And without their passion, which does get old, but what would it be to hear a deadpan delivery of even the most significant info? I mean, though I personally generally sympathize with their views, I really don't like their style, but I understand the frustration of dealing with people who actually believe in the power-elite's stories.
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  3222.  @anonymoususer520  Almost without exception everyone is "that far gone" only in popular flavors of gone-ness.
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  3223. Humanity may not be a virus, but at this point all of us certainly are an invasive species, even the so-called indigenous peoples and first nations, and Native Americans are invasive and destroyed the environment as much as they were capable of, given their technological level. For instance a massive wave of extinctions followed the first humans to invade the Americas as they moved south. Despite this humanity has a golden destiny among the stars if we can only wrest political and economic power from the insane automatons that are passing as our leaders. Power should never ever be given to anyone who seeks it. End of story.
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  3224.  @robvannNS  very quickly
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  3225. More than any other single individual Robert Mercer is responsible for the kool aid stupor that the trumptards use to justify their hate and fear. While the simple truth is that it is not progressive people who have caused the debasement of American life, it is the bankers and multinational corporations.
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  3226. I would really have liked to hear the entire debate. As presented, this is not a debate at all, just a statement. Scott is expressing my view, I am interested in hearing an attempt at a critical deconstruction of it: if that is what followed.
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  3227. If you see ads on YouTube it's your own fault because it is so easy not to.
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  3228. If someone buys a Bolt instead of a Tesla it is a sure sign that they failed to adequately research the respective vehicles and to actually understand what really sets them apart.
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  3229. It took me ten minutes of research to conclude that your report on the Swearingen execution, was canted so as to leave the impression that the preponderance of evidence would indicate that an innocent man was executed. You reported that he was sitting in jail when the murder took place as if it is a fact. It is not a fact. There was one expert opinion that the body of Melissa Trotter was two weeks old when it was found. There were six expert opinions that this was not the time frame and that Swearingen was not jailed at the time of the murder. You make it seem as if he was denied genetic testing, he was denied further genetic testing. Whether he was guilty or not is a moot point, that you skewed the facts to fit your political world-view in a manner worthy of Fox News is not a matter of debate. Everyday you lose more integrity. Are comedians like Jimmy Dore the only ones left who can even approach reporting the truth? Surely you no longer measure up.
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  3230. Dude: everyone who ever played Doom, knows that BFG does not mean big friendly gun.
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  3231. I think Anna's the kind of girl who is very sexy in clothes, but if she starts removing them there is a point of diminishing sexiness. Or maybe not. She should do a slow strip so we know fer sure.
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  3232. @ Above Ground -- gay frog detected holding their incel detector backwards.
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  3233. Trumps tweets have been renamed quacks: Donald Lame Duck, quack quack quack, ad nauseam.
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  3234. You mean re legalize coke. Cola with cocaine in it made the Woodruffs fortune.
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  3235. Total Bull. Fantasy and hollywood version of history. The reality: there are no original or indigenous people anywhere on earth at this time. All humans are invasive alien species. When the Asian migration into the Americas took place they caused a massive extinction as the moved south. They were continually at war with each other for centuries before Columbus and harbored cults of torture, ritual murder, and cannibalism.
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  3236. Reactionary nonsense.
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  3237. BYD does face some US gov restrictions, even on its American Bus manufacturing. This is unfortunate and short sighted on the part of the US gov.
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  3238. Good headline: articles are just superfluous anyway right?.
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  3239.  @davidsandall  Here's the thing about Bernie -- you know what you will get because he is honest. I don't want to not be able to sell my ARs if I want to - which I don't. I don't think that people should be rewarded for breaking our immigration laws -- even if it was their parents who did it. I do not think abortion is a good thing, I hate the whole idea that a person would end a growing human life because they were incompetent in their birth control (although sometimes it doesn't work as advertised) But I am not a woman and will never have to make that decision, so I bow out. But to me, getting rid of some of the scum in government, getting a harness on the banksters and especially getting money entirely out of elections is worth the sacrifices and I know Bernie will do everything that can be done to get the legalized bribery of campaign contributions and PACs out of government. So I compromise on the guns and undocumented immigrants.
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  3240.  @davidsandall  I don't think that, and I don't know anyone who does. But I do think that the nature of work will change drastically in the years to come, and if we don't let a few thousand people own everything there will be a lot more freedom to pursue one's interests instead of struggling to keep body and soul together. We are already in a situation were most of the workers who have been displaced were displaced by automation. There are already expert AI systems that can read an xray or cat scan a thousand times better than a human. But as it stands now only a very few will reap the great wealth that is being created by new tech. This will lead to destruction of America if the one percent is allowed to run the government and media as hey have for the last forty years..
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  3241.  @davidsandall  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WO7XxXI27s
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  3242.  @davidsandall  Get real. Bernie has been at the center of confrontation since the early sixties. The only national candidate with and actual record of confronting and speaking truth to power for fifty years. Even being arrested for demonstrating. People who are afraid of confrontation don't protest in the streets or defy the corrupt power elite. Bernie will crush trump, because trump is an act, like pro wrestling he is all lies and fake. Only the trump cultists will not see the piece of shit that he is if he debates Bernie. My money says he will refuse to appear on the same stage as Bernie because at heart like all bullies he is chicken shit.
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  3243.  @davidsandall  Over 15k people at the rally in Tacoma.
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  3244.  @davidsandall  Wrong. Bernie is the poorest senator. His wealth is mostly in the houses he owns. He has a house in Vermont where his home is, he has a house in DC were he works, like all senators, and his wife's parents left them a house. He also wrote a NY Times best seller and still his entire worth is only two million dollars. You are so wrong you couldn't be more wrong. One out of every two hundred Americans is a millionaire, and most of them have more money than Bernie. But you just condemned Trump and every other congressman in DC as being crooked. With few exceptions you are correct they are mostly owned by the banking industry and other corporate elites, but Bernie is one of the exceptions. Stop spewing republican talking points we heard them all before and they are all spin and lies told to the truly brainwashed.
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  3245.  @davidsandall  Sorry you have just proved that you are a hopeless fool and I can't waste anymore time on your bullshit.
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  3246.  @presiyanyankov8869  50 million so you are planning on putting babushkas on the front line -- That would be one in every three Russians -- get a brain.
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  3247.  @ZakiHaider-y9o  End of brain cells in your case if you believe your own bull shit.
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  3248. How much campaigning did Bernie do for Hillary after the scumbags at the DNC cheated him in 16? ABC news sucks, it is obviously controlled corporate news and they are shameless in their spin against Bernie no matter how low they have to go.
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  3249. Don't worry it's only a routine exercise, inside its own borders.
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  3250. In the sixties we saw that "There is no problem until there is trouble." The power elite and their misanthropic syncopates are not only out of touch, they are objectively insane in their behavior and the policies they establish. We thirst for justice, and after the possibility of a golden future for mankind. But they have no thirst for justice -- because -- they write the legislation, and it has become a legislation of privilege and legalized crimes, that is ultimately enforced by low level sell-outs and authoritarian types who have a taste for using the petty authority granted to them to push people around, lie in court and get away with murder. Or at the very least, stand with the blue mob's code of omerta.   Now people say, myself included, there are a lot of good cops. True that, but bad cops are just as common now, and the good cops ain't doin' shit about it. So functionally they are all pretty bad in total. I don't know about you, but I have never in my seventy years needed a cop for anything. I've reported thefts: nothing came of it. I have however gotten a few traffic tickets when I was young, for basically having a hot car and a pretty girl next to me. There was no need at all to break the law, they just were so full of hatred/envy -- Really. I was arrested for pot in college by an undercover scumbag that everyone knew was an undercover scumbag, who simply turned in drugs to a state narcotics officer and said I sold them to him. Like everyone else the scumbag did the same thing to, I was given the choice of pleading guilty and doing a few weeks in jail or facing over ten years in prison. I am not black, I was not poor, I didn't even have very long hair, which was a real reason for discrimination back then. When I was in high school I wore a black armband for the VietNam moratorium. I was told to leave school for the day. I went to a local dinner and a young off duty cop asked me why I wasn't in school. I told him and he threw me to the ground and started strangling me. Every cop I have ever seen testify in court, just out and out lied. They had it all written down, what didn't happen, with such impressive notes about times and what not I don't think that my experience is anomalous. I think it is pretty representative of most people. Now I just treat the police like they are all potentially violent insane people, who may or may not bite. Police in America is really, mostly an alternate venue of taxation. All most all of us would be better off without them. Doesn't it cost more to imprison a man than to give him an ivy league education? Innocent men in prison is money in the bank for these reptilian brained psychotics, we call our leaders, the politician, and our real leaders, the politicians' owners. The banksters, and the hidden money, the insiders, the power elite. They are pretty much assholes. But they control the men with the guns. But not all of them, thanks to the second amendment.
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  3251.  @rb032682  Is that the same as the Powell Memo?
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  3252. Tesla has terrible marketing. They do not advertise. Most people think they are on a par with other EVs while they are in fact twenty years ahead and pulling further ahead by the day. There is incredible FUD every day in the financial media because they do not pay up the advertising vig to the tune of billions like other OEMs. But then, the product markets itself, and the owners are the salesmen. It is only because Teslas are truly superior to all other choices that they sell so well.
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  3253. The thing I like most about DN is that they give you a more objective view than the corporate owned cable news yet do not devolve into continual bitching about the horrible behavior of our horrible "leaders" (you could call them scammers and imbeciles but then what invictives would be left for those who put them in office by falling for the same cheap dirty tricks over and over again. "Hey, go vote for the lesser of two evils." But never ask why it is that any evil is ever a choice in the first place. This is what government in the hands of barely contained psychopathic kleptocrats looks like. And most commercial news imbibers think it is normal. It is normal: if you can't remember what happened a few days ago, a few weeks ago, a few years and decades ago. Their has been an active class war against the middle class by the upper upper class since Ronald Raygun was foisted upon the nation by the bone headed bonesmen of the CIA.
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  3254. You can't compare a vehicle with unsprung motors in the hubs and a car that can actually go up hills, drive on ruff roads, and has some refined handling characteristics. Aptera screwed the pooch with it's decision to use off the shelf hub motors, which are unsprung and therefore the opposite of good handling.
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  3255.  @danpham333  Tesla moved because the cost of doing business in CA is high, and they still have a major plant in Fremont CA, that didn't move. You would have to be a fool to build a new gigafactory in CA, when so many other places offer less gov interference in everything. People are fleeing CA, not just companies. In my home town of Santa Cruz, before I left it cost over 75k in permitting before you could even brake ground to build a house. Get real. You think it is more important for a hundred million people to have one dollar, with which they couldn't even buy a cup of coffee, or someone with vision and a positive sense of human destiny to have a hundred million (or billion) dollars to allocate toward that vision. I say screw the third cups of coffee. That is the crux of our disagreement. Why do you think Elon is working like a yeoman while he could be fulfilling every common man's dreams while sitting back sipping mimosas on his private island? I can see by your comments that you have no idea what is coming, what is right around the corner. Nobody is going to need to work unless they want to. It will be an age of abundance -- eventually for everyone. But a hundred million 1/3 cups of coffee won't bring it about and is ultimately meaningless.
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  3256.  @danpham333  The Teslas sold in the USA have more American parts and labor than any other car. But labor is soon to be a thing of the past. You will only work if you want to work, on things you want to work on. Labor will obviously try to prevent this, because the union management will attempt to protect and increase their power by any means, just like any other pedestrian member of the power elite does and always has done.
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  3257.  @abasilumsmith91  Nice orientation of the population if you have it. And you just may have it because you ultimately did not have to deter the Soviets from invading you because someone else was picking up the tab. So you could offer two years maternity leave etc.
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  3258.  @henrikl4244  The number one selling car in Sweden is Tesla. Your facts are not facts. . . . "An opinion piece published in Nerikes Allehanda (NA), a daily newspaper in Sweden, suggested that Tesla employees are getting frustrated because nobody seems to be listening to the people who are actually working for the electric vehicle maker. The piece’s author clarified that Tesla workers are afraid, not of the electric vehicle maker, but of the union. " Union shills are full of "disinformation".
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  3259.  @sk0pe  You would be a fool to buy any EV other than a Tesla at this point. People who know nothing have your opinion that there are other EVs that offer similar value. The EV competition in China is fierce compared to anywhere else. What is the number one selling EV in China? -- Tesla. If you add in hybrids it's BYD which are just garbage compared to Tesla. Engineers know that Tesla is two generations ahead of everyone else and pulling further ahead by the week. When the engineers at Toyota bought and torn down a model Y last summer they sais it was, "An engineering masterpiece which they were unable to presently duplicate." But they are now adopting Telsa manufactuing tech as fast as they can, and by the time they get it down Tesla will be so far ahead it will be over the event horizon.
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  3260.  @danpham333  You are criticizing a silly hypothetical example illustrating how having assets allocated for the good of humankind is only possible with a concentration of wealth. Are you a child? It was supposed to be a silly example thus the 1/3 cup of coffee. No wonder you are confused. Once again: Elon Musk only owns 14% of Tesla. Small time individual retail investors own more than that.
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  3261.  @sk0pe  The US EV sub is greater than that in Sweden Elroy. Sweden doesn't even have an EV gov sub anymore. Your views are so twisted and distorted it's incredible.
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  3262.  @danpham333  That's true, but Texas is not one of them. If you lived around the Tesla plant in Austin, you would benefit greatly, as would your children if they had an interest in the physical sciences. Keep Austin weird.
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  3263.  @danpham333  Well I actually agree with some of your comment for once. Bring back the Eisenhower administration, it's tax rates and the CEO comp ratio -- sounds good to me. Unfortunately Congress is corrupt, unions are corrupt. Despite the mountain of disinformation put out by commercial media on a daily bases with which they are trying to coerce Tesla into spending billions of dollar per year like the other auto OEMS have to (GM alone 2.2 billion on ads in 22)-- Tesla and Musk are not corrupt. You are talking about companies as a whole. This is a false equivalency. And employee productivity has skyrocketed because of automation and compute, not because they are working harder. And you continue to ignore my proposition that work will, sooner than you think, be a thing of the past. Give it 15 years. The only labor will be hobby farmers and the like. Most people will just seek pleasure and entertainment while the same percentage that is now driving the tech and knowledge future with their love of science in all areas will be doing what they love. No need for unions at all.
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  3264.  @danpham333  Again you are using a false equivalency. If you worked for the Social Security Administration in Mississippi, and you moved to CA you would see a substantial increase in your salary. Because the cost of living is so much higher in CA. Likewise if you worked in CA and moved to rural PA you would see a substantial decrease in your salary for the same reason. Real spending power bro, that's what matters. Gotta go -- have the last word -- you need it.
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  3265.  @danpham333  Back. It's a meaningless stat because you are comparing all business. So of course established companies that are large enough to be targeted by unions will average more than the conglomeration of business that are less profitable. Migrant workers, part time everything thrown into one. The problem with your reasoning is that Tesla is singular. I don't know where you live, but here in central PA anyone with no experience can walk into a plant and get a job of twenty plus dollars per hour. My cleaning lady makes $25 per hour -- no skills, no union, and $3 less than the average union autoworker salary and she has more work than she can take. Plus it's cash and the chances are minimal that she pays taxes on it and of course no dues. Take an autoworker who is ready to retire. Started work in the eighties. I am not going to do the math, but I guarantee you, if you took the money he spent on dues over thirty years and had invested it in a stock index he would be far better off financially. And then if they had taken their stock and sold it and bought TEsla five years ago, every dollar they invested would be worth $1,141. So if they invested a messily 1k they would be more than a millionare today. If they had invested all their union dues for thirty years they would have more then 12million dollars today. That is using $15/hr from beginning to end for thirty years and you know they would have made more than that. On the other hand the UAW considers their latest wins a victory. These companies that caved will all be gone within a decade. No more GM, or STelantis, Ford may survive, and possibly Toyota if they copy Tesla and purchase tech from them. GM will once again come begging for a gov bail out that once again they will not repay. Plus it is all irrelevant because no one will be doing unskilled manual labor, and possibly not legal work, or a hundred other jobs that AI and the inevitable humanoid robots will be performing vastly better. No labor in the future so unions will serve no practical purpose. Even now if you teach one Teslbot a skill all of them become just as accomplished as the one that was taught it. In the future this will mean tens of thousands of bots will be able to master tasks in no time, instead of months and years. Unions and guilds served their purpose but nothing can stop what is now happening.
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  3266.  @abasilumsmith91  Absolute nothing at all. And Tesla is attempting to make a secure and lavish life not just for it's employees but eventually for everybody. And that takes concentrated capital, vast amounts of it allocated in strategic industries both for the security of families and the race as a whole, That's what the whole independent off world colony thing is about. Musk knows he will be dead before it happens, but he is striving to secure it. These things are not a secret, it's all spelled out in Tesla's not so secret secret plan that was published years ago. If you are young enough you will live to see thousands of Tesla bots landing on Mars, perhaps with a few scientists and engineers, and building and infrastructure out of native materials that will provide the seed for a real self-sustaining colony. Then, asteroids, nuclear war, climate change may come, eventually some extinction event will happen, it has over and over. But now thanks to this much maligned revolutionary thinker, consciousness will survive, in an otherwise dark universe (as far as we know). So I guess that having a month or two vacation, or a two year maternity leave is nice, but so irrelevant in the big picture. And of course the other off shoot of the convergence of tech breakthroughs the world is now witnessing will be affluence for all, and most likely a health-span of a vigorous few centuries. So what is important, the vision and pursuit of human ascendancy and it's golden destiny among the stars or a six week long vacation like my French friend who washed windows got?
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  3267.  @sk0pe Wow, you must get a thrill out of being wrong. The only European country with higher EV subs that the USA is Norway7. At one point Tesla did get a gov loan. Unlike the unionized GM: Tesla payed it back, early, with interest. I am not talking trickle down economics at all, that's just more rhetorical bull on your part. I personally am in favor of a generous guaranteed income for everyone, given not in gov programs or vouchers, but in cash. Except in instances where the recipient is not capable of handling it to help themselves. Because we are gonna need it, and we are gonna get it, because the present economic paradigm is about to explode due to disruptive tech. First here in the USA, Canada and Mexico, but eventually for all mankind. When you are living in the coming world of abundance and the golden destiny of mankind among the stars then what are you gonna bitch about? (I'm sure you will find something).
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  3268.  @sk0pe  I read what you said about Tesla employee stock program not benefiting the lowest wage workers and I was interested so I looked up the facts, read the program details and found out the the actual truth regarding what you wrote. Here it is Elroy. The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. And example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On Feburary 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit it even though it is a FACT. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: You are a shilll spewing nonsense who believes the lies of commercial media.
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  3269. Pretty harsh for someone with beads up their ass.
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  3270. I see you are a member of the hooded-cap Illuminati.
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  3271. This one fact dismisses all your assertions. The USA is not going to let China determine where its ships sail.
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  3272. I have to say, I am impressed by this bit of journalism. Nothing is, or could be more pertinent to the well-being of Americans as a whole at this moment in history. This is the class of reporting that the commercial venues of informative mass media should aspire to. This report is a victory for truth. Thank you for the information.
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  3273.  @rdpatterson2682  Sure, because the CIA cares what a few malcontents think. Or is it that when you have no real response you can always rely of the old chestnut of CIA meddling. How lame.
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  3274. And Germany continues to finance the war by buying Russian gas and oil, while decommissioned nuclear plants sit idle. These pipelines must be destroyed, all of them, then Russia will collapse like the rotten house of cards it is. And Europe will adapt, and get it's nuclear capacity back on line and transition to EVs even faster than it is, make the electrical grid truly European, and have a brighter future despite some mid term hardships. But most importantly they will no longer be under the thumb of an obviously insane regime, and an imperialistic, alcoholic, reptilian brained population that hold dreams of a past that never existed.
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  3275. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. And you CNN, are a big part of it. In fact people will come to recognize that you are a key member of the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQ7Zo6m9yg
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  3276. imagine an Aptera: you will have to, cause I have never seen one.
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  3277. Depends on the gel coat used. Raw carbon fiber composite is rarely used because of this issue.
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  3278.  @Nine-Signs  Politics sucks ass. Isn't it apparent to everyone by now that our political system is an archaic artifact? An artifact based on humanities inability to escape it's bestial warlike nature . . . :campaigns, winner take all victories, leaders who neither lead (excepting the advancement of the concerns of their patrons) nor have the wisdom to make intelligent impartial decisions on the issues of the day. This political web of deceit is a self-perpetuating parasite that warps collective social culture and is itself continually warped due to shameful self-interested exploitation by those who control the economy through control of debt manipulation. Interests and principalities that spew false narratives which have contaminated every aspect of our expectations of daily life, and our future aspirations (or lack of them). I suggest to you that there are other alternatives. Far more efficient alternatives, that would benefit the whole of society and reduce the corruption that is not only a systemic disease of our political system, but is now the very sinew, marrow, and circulatory system, of a body politic that has done everything possible to free itself from both morality and justice: through legislative and legal complexities, technicality, outright lies, and all manner of fuckery. It is time to evolve folks. Like a cool pool on a hot day, once you take the plunge it's refreshing and rejuvenating, but before you take that plunge there is hesitation and a resistance to a state change. And we must change the state of our state unless we consider moving into the future by looking through a rear-view mirror and stepping on our own dicks every step of the way while perpetually bitiching about it to be some kind of desirable human prerogative. Because as it is, it will never be able to meet our real human needs or provide anything more than updated reruns of the same old conundrums. If human culture and civilization is to advance it must evolve to a higher state, a higher system of state, which will nurture higher states of mind in the populace, not continually drag it back by aggravating the primal survival instinct in a technological environment wherein this instinct is counterproductive on numerous levels. I suggest to you that a body politic based on a NeoConfusian Techno-Meritocracy would be so vastly superior for the state of the state, state of the economy, state of human advancement, and our collective state of mind, that any comparison to the present drunken-knife-fight-in-a-gilded-bordello that passes for our government would be comical.
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  3279.  @thunderbird3694  . . . "Neoliberalism is a policy model that encompasses both politics and economics and seeks to transfer the control of economic factors from the public sector to the private sector.". . . This is almost exactly the direct opposite of fascism: in which the state and corporate entities for all practical purposes become one: under state control. While in neoliberalism due to the dynamics of corruption, the state becomes the instrument of the wealthy controllers of the banking system. But no matter, I agree with the spirit of your statements.
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  3280. Fact: the biggest contributor to climate change is green house gases, Fact: the biggest source of green house gases is animal agriculture. Fact: the most effective action an individual can take to cut green house gases is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture. Fact: if you are not a vegan, you ARE the problem and should just shut up about climate change because you have refused to take the one simple and most effective action you are capable of that will help, because you have a flesh addiction that you cannot overcome: no matter the fact that the food you chose to eat is making you and the planet sick onto death. In other words if you are concerned about climate change and you have not made this one simple and easy modification of your rapacious lifestyle, you are just another hypocrite, just like all the people you despise
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  3281. Unless your are a financial advisor: then ignoring reality is your profession.
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  3282. Micro-expressions do not lie. All of the cable news reporters, that is ALL of them, looked like they had just lost their favorite sex toy, or someone had told them that Santa Clause doesn't exist when it became apparent that Bernie was going to win in Iowa. Then they proceeded to demonstrate their singular super power in which they actually lie faster than they talk. Some kind of lyin dog-faced pony-soldier swarm -- FUken Aaaamazzen.
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  3283. If you want to stop most of the harm done by opoid addiction the answer is simple and has been proven. You provide addicts with free drugs in a clinical setting with the options of support and therapy. This is anathema to the punishment mentality that is so cherished by the brain dead puritanical authoritarians who have established the draconian system that is in place and that has proven time and time again to be an absolute failure.
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  3284. Don't tell me the Russians are flying those old foxbats, like in your video, lol. That would be hard to believe.
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  3285.  @mydogsbutler  Well you have been the victim of misinformation: social security and medicare and medicade are off the table. It is not Musk's company, he only owns 13 percent of Tesla, most is owned by small retail investors that believe in the good that Tesla has done for humanity. Tesla could go bankrupt and Musk would still be the richest man in the world. Musk pays his taxes always and never complained or tried to cheat. You are like a rabid person who is drowning in hatred fueled by a totally biased media. What you don't understand is that almost all reporting about Tesla is BS: why? Because unlike Ford, GM, and the other OEMs Tesla does not pay billions of dollars a year to advertise their products. Last year GM spent over two billion dollars on ads. The mass media has been trying to shake Tesla down for that ad vig for years. The actual truth about Musk is that everything he does has one aim, and that is to insure the survival of mankind during the next inevitable extinction level event. While a billion people with ten dollars each may be able to buy a happy meal each, one man with ten billion dollars or more could actually allocated the resources necessary to give humanity a change at survival. Musk is into efficiency he has developed the most efficient production methods on earth. The government is rife with corruption, kickbacks, and graft, and he sees this as standing in the way of his ultimate goal, which is to insure human survival. Get a life you hate filled fool.
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  3286.  @mydogsbutler  Well you have been the victim of misinformation: social security and medicare and medicade are off the table. It is not Musk's company, he only owns 13 percent of Tesla, most is owned by small retail investors that believe in the good that Tesla has done for humanity. Tesla could go bankrupt and Musk would still be the richest man in the world. Musk pays his taxes always and never complained or tried to cheat. You are like a rabid person who is drowning in hatred fueled by a totally biased media. What you don't understand is that almost all reporting about Tesla is BS: why? Because unlike Ford, GM, and the other OEMs Tesla does not pay billions of dollars a year to advertise their products. Last year GM spent over two billion dollars on ads. The mass media has been trying to shake Tesla down for that ad vig for years. The actual truth about Musk is that everything he does has one aim, and that is to insure the survival of mankind during the next inevitable extinction level event. While a billion people with ten dollars each may be able to buy a happy meal each, one man with ten billion dollars or more could actually allocated the resources necessary to give humanity a change at survival. Musk is into efficiency he has developed the most efficient production methods on earth. The government is rife with corruption, kickbacks, and graft, and he sees this as standing in the way of his ultimate goal, which is to insure human survival. Get a life you hate filled fool.
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  3287.  @mydogsbutler  Well you have been the victim of misinformation: entitlements like social security and medicare and medicade are off the table. It is not Musk's company, he only owns 13 percent of Tesla, most is owned by small retail investors that believe in the good that Tesla has done for humanity. Tesla could go bankrupt and Musk would still be the richest man in the world. Musk pays his taxes always and never complained or tried to cheat. What you don't understand is that almost all reporting about Tesla is BS: why? Because unlike Ford, GM, and the other OEMs Tesla does not pay billions of dollars a year to advertise their products. Last year GM spent over two billion dollars on ads. The mass media has been trying to shake Tesla down for that ad vig for years. The actual truth about Musk is that everything he does has one aim, and that is to insure the survival of mankind during the next inevitable extinction level event. Perhaps you don't understand or care what inevitable means or why it is so, or why it could happen anytime? While ten billion people with ten dollars each may be able to buy a happy meal each, one man with a hundred billion dollars or more could actually allocated the resources necessary to give humanity a change at survival. Musk is into efficiency he has developed the most efficient production methods on earth. The government is rife with corruption, kickbacks, and graft, and he sees this as standing in the way of his ultimate goal, which is to insure human survival.
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  3288. Well since he is such an asshole he will probably be happy to know that his vote doesn't matter to the DNC one way or another. They have no intention of being democratic or fair. And the jerk does not know the difference between a social democrat and a communist. What a shithead.
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  3289.  @ChannelMath  An etf such as SLV has real value and is very liquid. You can take delivery of the silver you own if for some reason you want to. But then you would be in the same boat as the stackers, you pay to buy, and you pay to sell. Much better to have silver backed etf than the silver itself. There are also gold backed cryptos issued by the gold mines in western Australia, but people buy bitcoin instead -- which is backed by nothing but hype and perception. Like alll ponzi schemes -- it makes loads of money until it doesn't and the big boys give everyone a haircut. I don't know anyone who buys jewellery as an investment. It's probably one of the stupidest investment you could make, unless you can buy it below the spot of the metals it contains. Of course if you are a woman and some rich guy gives you expensive jewellry that's another thing entirely. But generally even they will be shocked by how little it is worth if they try to sell it.
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  3290.  @haroldwhite5761  I just watched an interview with the CEO of Bandu (a Chinese firm) talking about how being able to sell stock in his company for dollars would greatly increase it's value. There is no doubt that the power elite is corrupt. But the US economy is not number one because of the petro dollar. Look it up. Also like I mentioned, I cannot drive two miles from my home without seeing signs outside of various plants begging for inexperienced workers to start at $15/hr and up. I recently got a post card from Hershey company extolling the benefits of coming to work for them at 32/hr starting wage. The streets are full of new cars, new homes are sold upon finishing -- There is less violence than ever before, and people live longer, yet all you can do is bitch.
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  3291.  @haroldwhite5761  Nope, I live in a regular small town in PA and the local manufacturers are begging for workers. If anybody around here does not have employment it is because they don't want it. No pot holes, no violence, the electricity stays on even if it snows for weeks and all thelibraries, parks, and trails are well maintained. All you have to do is a little research and you will find out that the level of violence world wide has never been lower, and your personal chance of suffering from assault has never been lower. The crime rate is down too, and has been coming down since the sixties. Outside of the coal region there are no empty houses in east central PA. And those towns need to die like the rapacious coal industry. Although they do present the opportunity for a family to own their own home for twenty thousand or so. You are living in a media fantasy that is based on keeping people frightened in order to sell commercials. I am really glad I don't live where you do, though I suspect you live mainly in your head. There is no "pinch" headed this way, only futher enhancements of human life on all fronts.
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  3292.  @ct-hv1uz  Lol, don't follow the market much do you. Despite the covid crash, 2020 was a banner year for almost all sectors, and so far this year despite the temporary corrections we are way up. The boom is coming, AI directed crisper drugs will make cancer a thing of the past. Smart nano machines will do the same for heart disease. More people are catching on to the fact that sugar, and meat kills you. Tesla is coming out with the cypertruck for less than 40k. Rockets are now reuseable and science is advancing at breakneck speed on all quaters. Only nincompoops can look at the present state of civilization and see only doom and gloom. Oh yeah, and if you take care of yourself and make it another twenty years or so aging will be reversible. Such a horrible world.
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  3293. What took a thousand bombs to hit in WW2, took a hundred bombs during Vietnam, took one bomb during Desert Storm. Basically the same with dumb shells, verses the rocket assisted guided 155 excalibur shells of today. Then their are so called drones which may make it all meaningless when swarms of insect sized drones assault an area, each one directed in real time by a hive mind connected to an AI central control, to kill any living heat source, like a cloud of death.
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  3294. Hey I am just a regular guy with regular guy concerns like you. The fact that I am worth hundreds of millions and am heir to the Vanderbilt estate, am connected to the CIA, and work for AT&T owned CNN means nothing. I am not compromised, I seem sincere don't I?
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  3295. Losing Trump is gonna be like losing the spokesman for the collective ID. I despise him, but I sort of hate to see him go. I despise Biden too, and I sort of hate to see him coming. I look at Harris and sort of long for Tulsi, or at least Liz. Bernie broke my heart once too many times, and there has been no actually good man since Nader. Oh well. . . . what I say, think, or who I vote for doesn't matter anyway. But at least I know it. . . . Do you? (Insert semi-hip pop cultural reference here)
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  3296. The real power behind the regressive conservatives will never allow abortion to be banned, only sporadic partial bans that will eventually be overturned. Because they understand that even the diehard right-to-life single issue voters, would then have no reason on earth to vote for their front men. Or front persons. Same with the gun issue. The "southern strategy" of the republicans would fall apart if they succeeded in their self-proclaimed goals which are really just another deception.
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  3297. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOVUo5TYJM&t=62s
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  3298. The USA did not lose in Viet Nam, they pulled out because of the citizen's political reaction to the incredible stupidity of those who started and engaged in that action. Three decades after it ended those who instigated and promoted it confessed, "We just didn't know what we were doing." Due to the dumbing down of the public, the tusami of lies from fox news and similar right-wing nut sources, the end of real front line reporting by US new services, and the end of the draft, the public is largely blind to what is going on in their name and via their taxes in present military operations. The USA presently has a military that serves at the bequest and direction of civilian politicians, but the civilian politicians are put in place by corrupting financial interests. It's called a "republic" which is how plutocrats present a mock democracy to a distracted, disinterested, and degenerated public.
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  3299. Humanoid robots will man outdated systems and be considered expendable at 10k per copy.
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  3300.  @bluesteel8376  Well something had to replace the cocaine. But that amount of sugar is a drug. Want to feel better fast? If you drink soft drinks, sugar or sugar sub -- fruit juice too, give them up entirely. In two weeks you will emerge from a hell you didn't even know you were in, and your body will thank you for it. I remember when the head of the dental school at Emory U made a simple statement of fact about coke rotting your teeth. Next year the dental school disappeared. Because the Woodruffs started both coke and the university and they don't take truth from underlings when it hits them in the wallet.
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  3301. . . . "eaches government". . . --- wow --- English surrenders.
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  3302.  @ralphhardie7492  Melt those valves!
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  3303. What the heck is a "based thing"? What the heck does it mean to be "based" into corporate interests? Why learn English, when you can just make up your own meanings for words -- aye?
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  3304. That the populace of the USA still believes, for the most part, that they live in a democracy is a reflection on how ill informed and brainwashed they are. As George Carlin said, "Paper or plastic this is your choice". The US elections are a farce, a media circus, and a distraction from the real power elites almost total control of the imbeciles they have polarized into two hate filled camps ready to kill each other over meaningless psuedo-ethical signaling.
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  3305. The emergent meta-functionality of democracy cannot manifest in a culture of lies and spin. Humans, like ants and other social creatures are capable of displaying emergent qualities. That is: as a group they are capable of functionality that is impossible on an individual level. This is not only a factor on the obvious level, such as ants display in finding the most efficient route to a food source or building a bridge of their own bodies to traverse some void that would stymie an individual ant, but it is also a factor when considering the determination of the most correct estimation or conclusion in a political sense, when a society is self-influenced through popular vote, or social pressures. An example of this would be a game of chance that is sometimes come upon at a county fair or other event. There could be a huge urn with an irregular shape (not a simple cylinder or similar) and it is filled with, let us say, jelly beans. You are given the opportunity to buy a "chance" to win a Corvette or if you correctly guess the number of jelly beans. . . . A near impossible problem, that one could only get right by gross estimation combined with dumb luck. With a large enough population of guesses the average of all the guesses will in almost every event be more accurate than the most accurate individual guess.l This could be thought of as the genius potential of democracy. The exception being: that one in a hundred event wherein someone guessed right just by luck. However if within the hundreds of thousands of jellybeans there was a void, such as could be caused by a number of hidden grapefruits or softballs, this emergent function of the an accurate average would no longer manifest, and instead we would get a very inaccurate estimation of the situation from the average. These grapefruits represent dis, or misinformation, or as is the case with political entities, outright lies or spin. And so the genius of the meta-funtionality potential of the democratic process is totally negated by "free speech" without regard to actual facts. Who should be the arbiter of what is factual and what isn't? Physical reality, not eyewitness reports, or any kind of disruptive self-promoting verbal vomit from politicians or political social entities. Even the ancient Greeks knew that the last people on earth that should be trusted with political power are those who actively seek it. It would be very beneficial and profitable if -- politically -- we were to enter an era of competency and merit, wherein everyone is given an equal opportunity to display acumen for positions of power through testing, which would include high pressure simulated scenarios, psychological profiling, general knowledge, and specific expertise. But instead it's politics as usual, Which is kind of sickening, and boring, trite, inept, a magnet for high functioning psychopaths, etc. etc. Makes old Three Stooges flicks look profound in comparison.
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  3306. In my mind Tesla in China is just a temporary situation. China is not long for this world. Think about the disconnect from reality: they probably developed covid in a lab and it escaped in the first place, to kill millions, they are incapable of developing an effective vaccine, and they refuse to import a vaccine that works, so they pursue an impossible policy that cannot work, and totally screw up their own and the world economy by pursuing it. Stupid is as stupid does.
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  3307. People who present lies as facts in public media should be fined, and if they persist -- banished from the USA for life. Bring back banishment. The first democracy used it, and in the past so did the USA.
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  3308. The USSR buried hundreds of thousands of starving Ukrainians alive, who were too weak to defend themselves in the biggest genocide in all of history. Bigger than the Jewish Holocaust, though without the media coverage in history, news, and entertainment media. A genocide that is not even known by most Americans.
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  3309.  @tsubadaikhan6332  Tesla mega packs to the rescue.
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  3310. I thought "a star in a jar" was the term used to describe sonoluminescence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSIPolpvjBY
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  3311. You all heard of the term ""quantitative easing"? It's what the gov/fed had to resort to in the wake of the last banster fiasco in 2008. This action by the Federal Reserve is inflation. Rather it is a transfer of wealth from everyone to the benefactors of government funds, whether by program, or grant, or payments, or any means. It is, essentially a tax: a backdoor tax. The moment that any quantitative easing takes place, inflation is a done deal, there is no alternative. It doesn't matter what or who is in power, if you plant inflation, you cannot avoid the harvest.
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  3312. I agree, but my "stuff" will be cherished by those I leave it to, because it will enable their security and dreams.
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  3313. And Pizza parlors are fronts for the Mafia's drug business. -- and baby eating democrats that meet in nonexistent basements.
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  3314.  @truhhhhhhhokIII3  Don't you mean the meth?
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  3315. Kims sister accompanied him to Switz, where they became "co-dependent". She has his balls in her purse, does she not? Oh, that's not a purse, it's a side arm. She has his balls in her holster.
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  3316. Lots of people get answers wrong, but you my friend have manged to get a question wrong. Quite a feat. . . .
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  3317. Trump won because the voters that make the difference see him as a hero protecting the USA from becoming Mexico. If the USA was all Mexicans or a majority of Mexicans what exactly do you think would make it different form Mexico? The people make the nation. All this neolib hand wringing is like an unpaid ad for Trump -- dimwit. And why are all these people so friggin obese? It's obscene.
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  3318. This and the Nammo ram-jet propelled 155 shell is what Ukraine really needs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1156_Precision_Guidance_Kit This kit will turn the American rocket assisted 155 shells that Ukranine is kicking russian butt with, into one shot one kill smart artillery shells, equal to but less expensive than the devastating U.S. Excalibur 155. A shell that is so accurate that it was often called in with less than a hundred meters separating US forces from the soon to be corpses. The Norweigan Nammo shell, if it is in any kind of mass production, can travel over 60 miles which is three times the distance that any russian artillery can fire. This and the fact that russia is almost out of advanced guided missiles and has no kind of dependable air superiority is what actually matters in the media ocean of noise that surrounds the simple, primitive, pragmatic signal, and the beauty of its elegant and poetic message is one that Putin will understand, in the dark night of his missing soul, as he watches video of Qaddafi's last minutes over and over. Give Ukraine the M1156 kit -- they need it and are a heroic people deserving of an Excalibur both literal and physical.
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  3319. This was all caused by the USA changing the laws on pain meds to make it much more difficult to get legitimate pain medication. It drove millions of people who were dependent on prescription pain medication into the streets. The experts and government did this, and they knew it would happen, because so many professionals told them it would happen, but the puritanical idiots had their way, and now we have this. The only real way to end this problem is to give addicts pure drugs in a clinical setting for free. This is the only thing that works. OF course most people of little brain will insist on doing what has proven to not work over and over and produced the worlds first criminal billionaires just to keep the corruption in banking ripe and profitable.
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  3320. In 2020 their were 199,533 gas car fires in wrecks. Their were 53 EVs that caught fire. Which do you think got more media attention? Over 95% of car batteries can be recycled -- einsten.
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  3321. GPT is incapable of even the most basic and simple reasoning.
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  3322.  @dannywindham3295  If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  3323. Well then you are "for" a lost cause, because people have always done drugs, especially caffeine and alcohol, and it is natural to do drugs, there is no part of human history wherein people haven't used drugs, even the most ancient Scythian sites have contained devices that were used to smoke pot. 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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  3324. The reason Elon pushed back against the Democratic Party attacks on him is because they were nothing but a bunch of lies and intentional disinformation. The puddin' heads on the extreme left are just as bad as the wingnuts on the extreme right, and people are getting sick of them both. For every imbecile that thinks Elon Musk is identical to the projection of the part of them that they have attempted to suppress because they are just approximations of real men and women, there are two knuckle-dragging Q believers on the right who think that Trump is the rightful president. These people are. . . what's the word. . . oh yeah -- STUPID -- yeah that's it. So we should give them more air time so we can sell commercial time for more money, because real journalism and intelligent political analysis is too hard, and people are bored by it and will change the station.
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  3325. In my opinion this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-LI_jeytBII is the direction that performance will go. The big change is coming: EVs will become a lot lighter and it won't be long before they attain parity in handling. There are a lot of Porsche fanboys who routinely disparage Teslas in comparison to Porsche. But really, though there are the plaids, they are more an after-thought: a fun option for the odd affluent sedan/grand touring type driver. Teslas are designed to conquer the fattest part of the emerging new market paridigm. Porsche, on the other hand are, and have only ever been a niche segment that caters to performance enthusiasts. If Tesla had the ultimate sports car as a design vector it would be an entirely different game in the performance world. I would love to see Tesla release a small affordable roaster based on the new model 2 design -- preferably a fancar named the McMurtry edition. So McMurtry could be to Tesla -- like Shelby was to Ford. I am counting on the fact that my coming Teslabot will be able to build one for me out in my garage, after Chat GPT69 designs it. It seems like that will be the best bet. Or maybe I'll just buy a Boxter.
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  3326.  @louiecarrigan821  I see you are sarcasm impaired. But I will bet your are wrong on the timing of the Teslabot. Their will be a tsunami of Teslabots. It will start as a trickle and months later be a deluge.
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  3327. Putin is a man of faith. That's that it takes for him to believe he will outlive all the people who now will not rest until he is dead.
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  3328. Oh yes Americans are so different from other people. Oh wait, every fucken country on earth acts the same way, given the means to do so. But I can see why you might believe the bullshit you are spewing. Speaking of slavery, Islam gave us the greatest slavers in all of history. And by great I mean great assholes.
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  3329.  @bbirda1287  You misunderstood the whole thing. Big time.
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  3330. click bait
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  3331. finasteride is propescia -- something that will do Joe no good at this point but would have prevented baldness but will still keep down dihydro testosterone and increased free testosterone in the blood
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  3332. You better read some owner reviews on that BMW, they are inferior to Tesla in every parameter.
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  3333. Damn this guy is 58 and they think he looks great? He looks like he could be my dad and I am 69.
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  3334. So tell me media darlings, we all know that Putin and his buddies have vast wealth that is hidden in shell companies and shill accounts, just how much exposure do you think that Putin has in various US and Western defense industries? Think about it.
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  3335. 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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  3336. The Bern Abides
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  3337.  David Renton  True, it is people who have to cause change, however a always on bodycam with no way to tamper with it or overwrite or erase video would go a long way in evidencing the antiAmerican activities of some police goons.
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  3338.  @dustinnance6817  This is just a technical problem that can easily be overcome by technical means.
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  3339.  David Renton  I know I am replying twice to your post. Do you have any idea how you failed to see the forest of the trees? First of all none of the officers involved had a body cam on. Second of all, if there had been no video at all -- nothing would have happened. No outrage, no protests, no arrest. So basically you statement is totally self-contradictory. Even if you did give it a thumbs up yourself. And actually your final statement is totally incorrect. In dozens of incidents of police violence body cams changed Everything -- einstein.
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  3340. This is a very naive question. Humans have always used drugs through out all of history, everywhere. Even animals use drugs. It is a natural urge. It is basically the laws in the USA that has created the drug problem. I knew the opioid street drug epidemic would begin as soon as they changed the laws for docs to prescribe pain meds, thus forcing the dependent out on the streets in many many cases. Thanks uncle Sam, once again you screwed the pooch.
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  3341. Sixteen years and you still haven't learned that facts don't change behavior in 99.99999% of people no matter what side they automatically fall on. There are no sides other than the power elite and everyone else. No matter how the everyone-else divides themselves into left right up down idiots or fools.
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  3342. Oh yeh. . . -- a childish "Ha!" to you.
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  3343. Just because you can imagine something does not make it a fact. See the comments from locals for the actual facts as opposed to your thoughts.
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  3344. VW loves the CCP. Birds of a feather cheat together. Especially when they are outperformed in every metric by a company with a real desire to benefit humanity as a whole.
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  3345. The old white guy in the wheelchair who was shot nine times in the back by police in AZ just doesn't matter. I guess because he was an old white guy with long hair. The murderer who shot him lost his job. Oh heavens what will he do now? Lost his job -- oh dear.
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  3346. These guys need to be flogged and banished.
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  3347. You have to do better than just spreading rumors you make up in fantasyland.
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  3348.  @helifanodobezanozi7689  So in your opinion "entitled corporate executives!!!" are stupider than other people. And basically have the intelligence and social sophistication of twelve year olds.
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  3349. The Russians will double down until they lose over a million people.
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  3350. Yeah right except for the most desirable standard of living on earth, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands, all democratic socialists. And they actually have more freedom than the totally capitalist counties -- like -- well there are none except for those where the gov totally failed like Somalia. They tried this in Chile when the scoundrels from Chicago took over the economy and plunged it into capitalist hell. Though I do find it detestable that the US gov attempts time and time again to punish Tesla for being a fantastic success. But this is all old think, these days are almost gone, a degree of socialism will be a necessity when the effects of revolutionary tech like AI, robots, and medical advances bring on the world of super abundance, despite the harping of politicians on both sides. If you really study history and mankind in general, it is obvious that the leaders we choose ARE the main problem. We naturally choose psychopaths as the alphas, and the time for this has long passed. Time to start psychological testing of all political hacks, and have them compete in tests and stimulated scenarios before the can even get on any ballot.
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  3351. Russians are incapable of democratic rule, the state has breed a population of confused imbeciles and frightened anyone with two brain cells by oppression and violence, and those with any potential have fled. Russia is doomed by its own hand of state.
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  3352. Face it, when you get right down to it, Goldman Sachs gave us the choice of the two most despised people in America for the 16 election. They were both their choices and they are in like flint in either administration.
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  3353. The most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 12 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell. The Americdan Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada. The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. A truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon western tech they no longer have access to..
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  3354. Why Guns Germs and Steel is wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OQmvRUdr3U&t=718s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAlEwYjaBRM
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  3355.  @kwhp1507  I had the same question, but decided that defining was a brilliant play on words.
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  3356. You can't really print money, only currency.
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  3357.  @Scaleyback317  Anyone can plan for the next ninety years, being here in ninety years is another issue. The PRC has not even existed for ninety years. And it will be quite a feat if they are around in another twenty, which would be about their ninetieth year. They are like the Borg in a way, in a mindless conformity way, but even that will not save them from the incredible arrogance and lack of intelligence both on a personal, and organizational level of their completely isolated uber authoritarian leader. You may find this talk by the man who predicted the invasion of Ukraine five years before it happened. Merry Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzT38jCUpgU
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  3358. These millionaire sycophant talking heads think that what they do is "work".
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  3359.  @alfredgoham2787  It went a hundred times better than Ukraine is going for Russia.
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  3360. So if I keep a couple dozen frozen embryos for 18 years, since they were children, do they then get to vote as adult embryos? They could signal who they want to vote for to me telepathically. Because if a few dozen cells are children then anything can be anything, and all things are fungible. Just ask the big orange baby-man -- according to his example absolute degeneracy is the paramount Christian value. /s
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  3361. This is so lame, they will not touch the largest cause of climate change: animal agriculture. IF all the forests that were cut down to provide pasture land since 1800 were allowed to reforest we would have no climate change. Look at the middle east, huge tracts of wasteland, caused by ignorance and subsistence grazing of sheep and goats since way before 1800. Yet it has been proven over and over, that if you stop the grazing, and reintroduce native grasses, IN A MATTER OF YEARS, fresh water springs will appear because the aquifers have refilled, because the grasses allow the natural water and moisture to penetrate the soil and not just run off. Then in a little longer forests will start to grow. This will work in land that is currently totally barren. Yet this is never, ever addressed by politicians because of the money from the meat and dairy industry. Heat pumps, induction stoves, etc. are these people morons? 86% of the greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture, not to mention the fact that it has also been proven over and over by real science (that science not underwritten by the meat and dairy industry) that the meat and dairy you eat is killing you. The WHO has classified processed meat products as class one carcinogens same as plutonium and cigarettes. You have been the victim of a relentless (not "unrelenting" as the people who say "wheelhouse" instead of "purview" would say, lol) disinformation campaign. Wake up and let the planet and yourself return to health. Their is so much disinformation on this matter, that if you find you way clear to a realistic narrative it is almost miraculous. And the effect on your health will indeed be miraculous.
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  3362. I like Niall, but claiming that democracy is the best we can do is not only incorrect, but alludes to a state of government that actually exists nowhere on earth. The first and most important thing to understand about democracy is that it capable of harnessing epigenetic suprahuman judgements and decisions that are totally beyond the abilities of any single human, no matter their intelligence or knowledge. Like ants who as individuals have no knowledge of how to build a bridge out of their bodies or choose the path that leads to just discovered food, yet as a group, are able to manifest extraordinary versitility and adaptability that are nowhere to be found in an individual ant. And just as it has been pointed out that the average of the guesses at the solution of a problem whose complexity is beyond the reckoning of the individual guessers, is almost always more accurate than the single most accurate guess. Such as takes place when a very large number of jelly beans are placed in an urn in order to raffle off a car to the closes guess at the exact number of beans in a large urn. The average guess is almost always more accurate than any individual guess. But the urn at a county fair charity auction does not have the likes of Fox News to contend with. That is, it does not have some mechanism of deception at play, like a hidden grapefruit in among the jellybeans, that undermines the ability to make one's best guess. But the extraordinary epigenetic advantages of democracy will never be allowed to have it's day. There is no democracy anywhere. Lots of republics, which give the illusion of a democracy while maintaining the status quo of the power elite, who, as amazingly coincidental as it seems, are exactly the reason everything is a mess in the first place. Any democratic revolution is quickly subsumed by the forces of corruption, as are all the more authoritarian forms of government. I personally am in favor of a kind of Retro-Confucian-Techno-Meritocracy that would assign offices to various candidates based on their abilities to pass a harrowing course of tests and simulated scenarios, as a regularly scheduled government upgrade open to all, and perhaps participated in by all mandatorily, since the last person on earth to whom you should ever invest power over others is someone who seeks it. No matter their rationalizations and lies to themselves or others.
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  3363. WSJ has become a rag and a joke. In other word it has lost all credibility, and it didn't take long for Fox to totally ruin it.
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  3364. It seems obvious that Putin has something he is holding over Trump that would be so devastating that it allows Putin to control him. Personally I blame the DNC for this, and the American two party system: that of 300 million people in the USA once again offers no choice but two evils.
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  3365. There are no indigenous people in the Americas, nor in Europe, Asia, or even Australia. All humans found on these continents are an invasive species from Africa. What you refer to as indigenous peoples are merely technologically unsophisticated invaders. Your continual failure to admit the truth regarding human populations is just more spin. And your news, though better than the cable channels, is saturated with spin, and impoverished as far as hard facts about such matters are concerned.
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  3366. I would suggest: "Wake the fu@k up you ignorant ludite." On second thought: it doesn't really matter at all, the politicians have to play to a crowd that was brainwashed with preposterous ideas in childhood, just like the majority of Muslims, or really any religious beliefs founded in fictions mistaken for facts. There is almost no hope of them seeing what is really going on. Think about it: despite the fact that no miracles have ever been verified and that everything in their lives indicates that these are just teaching stories, they still believe nonsense. Believing is a lot easier than finding the truth in the haystack of social media opinions. DN is a prime example, as loads of people around here believe in any anti-American narrative that is presented, no matter how they are easily disproved by anyone with the ability to discriminate between what constitutes verifiable facts and just another spun narrative. Of course DN also seems to be a magnet for foreign active measure in the guise of comments.
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  3367. Exactly. The market has grown tremendously, and a somewhat lower percentage of a bigger market is still an increase in sales, but don't expect the anti EV Trump cultists to be able to understand that, no matter how you explain it to them. it''s like the Monty Hall problem, some people are just incapable of understanding that you increase you chances of winning the car by switching curtains no matter how you explain it.
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  3368. Russia is an old Swedish territory, so I guess it should be returned to Sweden.
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  3369. TS<C is building fabs in AZ as is Intel.
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  3370. A friend of mine recently reminded me that many people see ads on youtube. Really? How can you stand that shit when it is only a click or two to stop them? You really should bother to learn how to be anonymous, encrypted, and ad free on the net. How can you fucken stand it? You may as well be on facebook. Well at least you don't have to sign in or provide hateful manipulative right-wing reactionaries with personal info by having everything you do tracked both on and off facebook. Jesus I forget that people will put up with anything to avoid learning something.
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  3371.  @koshobai  Bet you can't game worth a S with it. Unless you can jack it into an Nvidia video card setup.
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  3372. More shameless bull from the biased corporate owned false narrative.
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  3373. I have excellent sound quality on both, must be your end auld.
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  3374. The biggest thing we could do to reduce greenhouse gases is to replant forests on the lands that have been clear-cut for pastureland. Cutting down the forests for grazing land resulted in 87% of the greenhouse gases. That is really the only hope, to reverse climate change, you would have to have forests back to the level of the 1800s. This will never happen because most people would have to give up hamburgers and milkshakes. It is not true that Globl Warming cannot be reversed in short order. If most of the people on earth stopped buying the products of animal agriculture and let the forests regrow where they had been cleared for grazing it would reverse in a matter of years. Of course this will not happen, because people are incapable of accepting facts they do not like, and changing their behavior based on facts. Too little too late and the wrong focus is the name of this game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSc_51xR8sQ
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  3375. Could it be 'cause no one cares? I think I won't watch to find out because I don't really care. I'm probably missing something great but you know what? . . . I don't care.
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  3376. Your genius government decided to give more incentives to electric cars built in Mexico instead of the best electric cars in the world that are also the most American cars in the world, which company has the most millionaires actually working on the assembly line but is being cut out as much as possible because the gangster unions have not had success unionizing Tesla because it is a great place to work and become rich with employee stock programs. You think this is of no importance, no, not is you want your tax dollars going to companies that have off-shored as much as possible, are ten years behind in tech, and rely on politics to even be able to compete.
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  3377. Come on three letter agencies, you destroyed a good man in Carter, when he downsized you, certainly you can get rid of this pustule who threatens the existence of the republic.
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  3378. The reason there are so many democrats running is simple. So that there will be no clear majority at the democratic convention. When that happens there will be a second round of votes in which the super delegates will be allowed to vote. It is all an elaborate misdirection, a scheme to cheat Bernie once again. Because the same people who own Trump will also own Bidden and Harris. Fuck this: same old dirty tricks that they use over and over and nobody ever seems to catch on.
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  3379.  @kingofthecatnap5422  Of course: they're not hotdogs after all.
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  3380. That won't happen Kyle: the government will not legalize drugs. Because the bankers and lawyers that clean up the money that the cartels make don't want that, and they are the ones that own the government through the corrupt campaign finance system. All Private money must be out of all elections and all comments on elections. No PACs no Citizen's United bullshit. All of it out. That is the lynch pin for all your complaints. And nothing can be done until this legalized source of corruption is ended.
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  3381.  @Paint-brigade1776  Talk to Ford and GM, or buy the most American vehicles: the Teslas.
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  3382. Sure there are. Especially if you smoke it. It is harmful to your lungs and if you believe it isn't you would probably believe the doctors in the fifties who prescribed smoking cigarettes for health.
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  3383. Jacko is one naive mother.
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  3384. Just because you wrote "complete nonsense" does not mean you understand what is going on. This was happening before the commodity price increases.
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  3385. Not buying any of it from any side.
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  3386.  @michaeldavis3819  You got that wrong. The US policies have granted a monopoly to criminal organizations to sell drugs creating the first criminal billionaires, just like prohibition created the first criminal millionaires. The real evidence lies in the policy that Switzerland adopted. Certain areas of the USA have tried decriminalization and it has been a fiasco, that is because they thought that all you had to do was make the use of illegal drugs a non-offense to use. That was naive. You need the whole program that was successful in Switzerland. But strangely enough, though Calvinism and the more known attitudes of Puritanism originated in Switzerland, the population has evolved beyond such draconian ideals and viewed the problem objectively, unlike the knee-jerk reaction represented by your own comment. It works -- punishment does not work, it only corrupts the police and alienates people who are caught up in the system -- many of them being framed to advance the careers of bad cops. Also note that since MJ was decriminalized in Sweden the teenage use of it has fallen off a cliff.
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  3387. @ Tomatenpresse  @TheGAMERzz4  wrote. . . "In the US nobody who did not commit a crime gets locked up."  This may be the stupidest, most uninformed statement I have read for weeks. I really think you should get some kind of prize for it. The fantasy world you inhabit must take a lot of maintenance. I bet you watch Fox News.
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  3388. Why take a simple robust system and hideously complicate it? Hybrids are just a ploy by the dinocar industry to stave off immediate defeat. Tesla is the only company that can compete with the Chinese and beat them. And it does, beat them, on their own stompin ground.
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  3389. Well it makes more sense than protesting Tesla which has done more to mitigate climate change than any other organization with the possible exception of China. Maybe they will start to burn planes instead of burning the most efficient EVs on the planet.
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  3390. All responses to trump except laughing in his face are inappropiate. Surrounded by toadies and yes-men all his life, he has no idea how ludicrus and stupid he is. Let him know, when he spouts some idiotic line -- laugh in his face - you media cowards.
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  3391. There are beings and things that are conscious, however there is no such thing as consciousness. Being conscious is a verb, consciousness is a noun. Consciousness is just a stand in for the "spirit" as in the table turning, seance attending, NDE fantasized spirit that was invented by the conscious mind, which is itself quite automatic as in the thouight centric associative mind. Talking about consciousness is tantamount to talking about "runningness" in a runner who is sitting on a park bench. What you are actually taking about is apperception. This is only "confusing" because you are confused. This is because a system cannot comprehend itself on its own level. If you are able to ignite a level above the automatic thought centric associative mind you would see that the source of your misunderstanding is this very automatic associative function. Your whole idea is thousands of years old and the same mistake is found in Tantric Savism and other eastern philosophies.
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  3392. School of the Assassins. . .
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  3393. So does anyone know the difference in gross weight for the two types of model Y?
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  3394.  @paulf3353  Suggest you watch a video of the latest FSD beta. If BMW could produce a system like that they would come in their pants.
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  3395.  @Cloxxki  Caught up? You are delusional, nothing is even in the same ballpark as Tesla FSD. And who cares about when they estimated they would have it. Eventually they will finish it up, and then what will you bitch about: Elon's private life I guess. While Tesla will have developed an innovation that will have as much of an effect on civilization as the invention of the steam engine, though I kind of suspect that you can't really grok that.
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  3396.  @paulf3353  Huge progress lately, especially in the last year. How could you have actually seen 69 and not know that?
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  3397.  @paulf3353  Not on the many demonstrations I saw. It was almost perfect every time. Did SF with no interruptions.
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  3398. Like religion: people purporting to speak objectively often provide stories to account for the unknown. This is usually because the naked confrontation with what little is thought to be known (always ripe for revisions that improve the correspondence of these various forms of symbolic representation to experiment and observation)and the vast unknown surrounding it would be totally staggering to the functions of the prefrontal cortex and personal identity. People are willing to accept the fact that they cannot accurately represent quantum mechanics in associative thought. They are not so willing to admit that the associative mind (frequently and incorrectly referred to as consciousness) cannot comprehend itself or its functioning. This delight is reserved for forms of perception and comprehension beyond associative thought. Of which few of our fellow bipeds, including those who hold themselves forth as scientists, have any functioning adequateness with.
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  3399. Here's what Iran will learn: "Fuck around and you'll find out."
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  3400. Please advise of one place on earth were this is not the case. I would like to move there.
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  3401. Consciousness exists to the same extent that "runningness" exists in a runner that is sitting on a park bench.
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  3402. @jmcw9632 And like almost anywhere else on earth, from New Zealand to India , to Mexico, and on.
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  3403.  @apokatastasian2831  That's very true. I am appreciating his present series of monologues on ___________ (fill in the blank) after America, quite a lot though. Often someone in his online audience knows more about a particular subject than he does and they do not hesitate at all to let us know in the comments. That is sort of my favorite part. All the typical praise is just white noise to me.
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  3404.  @gmw3083 Really? Then I would have been banned and I never have.
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  3405. The reason that police are now above the law and can literally get away with murder is because the power-elite do not want the police to hesitate when ordered to attack the citizenry or violate the constitution because of fear of paying for their crimes. Simple as that. The common man thirsts for justice, but the evil power-elite makes the laws that legalize their many criminal acts, and we fools fall for the same cheap tricks over and over and never seem to catch on to the reality behind our "leaders" being the psychopathic scum that they are, both here and abroad. The same cheap tricks over and over "divide and conquer".
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  3406.  @kurtwicklund8901  Well suited for high functioning psychopaths, just like all politics. You kind of get the leaders you deserve. Population in the thrall of the silver-back strong man trope, because they are a slave to hormones no matter what their lip say, thus the ass-holes in power.
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  3407.  @nick_vash  It's not a matter of "for what?" A simulation of pimal urges and emotional variables certinaly could be a possibility. I didn't present a theory, from which it is possible to draw a ridiculous conclusion such as "yourAI will be creating problems to solve them". "We people don't create problems, we face them and try to solve them" . . . Do you understand how naive and just incorrect this is? I mean even a child knows this is not true. Tell me. . . are you a chatbot? Only a chatbot could be so incomprehensibly out of touch with reality.
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  3408.  @chanchong4924  Sure, and AIDs was started by the CIA, and the US government is actually run by Grey aliens, and every bit of active measure disinformaion that the Russians plant in third world media sources and is picked up by cut-and-paste "journalists" should be believed.
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  3409.  @lukehallatt394  More like 40k a day. That rate is wearing out barrels faster than they can be replaced. Western weapons have more range than Russian and are much more accurate. One rocket propelled excalibur shell can do what twenty dumb outdated Russian shells often cannot. Russia is unable to replace its high tech missiles. But the main thing is that Russia is at the edge of a cliff of demographic collapse. Everyone with any potential who was able to, has fled Russia, It is not able to produce enough people to continue on the level it has been, It has massive drug addiction, way higher than the west or the USA and alcohol problems, rampant AIDs and one out of every four Russians has a antibiotic resitant form of TB. Russia has basically no future, that's why it is making it's move now, before it just collapses. And at the same time, Putin is the world richest man. He holds his wealth via third party insiders who he holds the power of life and death over. This wealth is hidden in dummy corporations set up by German lawyers in Panama, and most of it is invested in American corporations, many of them in the defense industry. So when Putin attacks a country that responds with American weapons, it is a very good financial move for him personally. And the cancellations of Russian built armaments just keep slipping in. Basically if you see Russia accusing another country of some inhumane or bellicose act it is a sure sign that they do it themselves and the accused does not. They have been playing the same tune since the revolution, and anyone with any sense and potential should get out if they can.
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  3410. Obviously abc news doesn't realize that waving an American flag makes it OK to be stupid. This may be social Darwinism's finest hour.
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  3411. Are reviews of "press vehicles" relevant to retail car buyers? Mr Alexander says NO! They differ in many ways from the cars you can actually buy, and give reviewers a false impression of quality. Recent expose of the car review scams pulled by OEMs to deceive buyers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNiJ9ptGPFA
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  3412. Highest owner sanctification: it ain't BMW.
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  3413. Did you know that your comments will be censored by Democracy Now, no matter how true they are, if they go against their own romanticized revisionist fantasies about the first nations.
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  3414.  @RogerM88  This is a part of it that Tesla haters just do not get. There is nothing that will stop working that cannot be fixed with a little reboot or an OTA update.
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  3415.  @RogerM88  You need to sit in and drive a model Y so you stop sounding like and imbecile.
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  3416.  @RogerM88  The post was about buttons fool.
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  3417. How much more evidence do people need to understand that the DNC is composed of cheating compromised co-opted scumbags? Slowly via the new distributed media of the internet people are learning about their continuing ongoing dirty tricks in the service of their oligarch masters. The cheating has already begun with the introduction of an app that Iowa caucus will use to report local results. From the sellouts at NPR: Iowa's Democrats hope the new app lets the party get results out to the public quicker, says Troy Price, the chairman of the state party. In an interview, Price declined to provide more details about which company or companies designed the app, or about what specific measures have been put in place to guarantee the system's security. But security is a priority, he says. The state party worked with the national party's cybersecurity team, and with Harvard University's Defending Digital Democracy project, but Price declined to answer directly whether any third party has investigated the app for vulnerabilities, as many cybersecurity experts recommend. "We as the party have taken this very seriously, and we know how important it is for us to make sure that our process is secure and that we protect the integrity of the process," Price says. "We want to make sure we are not relaying information that could be used against us." Unlike many states in which local and state officials oversee the presidential primary election, in Iowa the state party is responsible for administering, staffing and funding the caucuses, relying primarily on trained but unpaid volunteers. Cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said that the party's decision to withhold the technical details of its app doesn't do much to protect the system — and instead makes it hard to have complete confidence in it. "The idea of security through obscurity is almost always a mistake," says Doug Jones, a computer science professor at the University of Iowa and a former caucus precinct leader. "Drawing the blinds on the process leaves us, in the public, in a position where we can't even assess the competence of the people doing something on our behalf."
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  3418. Yea: . . . that's not what happened.
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  3419. If you call systemic corruption a system, then I guess there is a good chance of it. Power concentrates and it corrupts (not just aphorism: scientific fact) and until the methods of choosing leaders enters the 21st century that's what it will stay.
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  3420. Why are you so afraid of your viewers learning the truth about Indian history? Why do you keep deleting my comments which state nothing but verifiable facts about their real history? You suck ass.
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  3421. Yeah it was accurate to a range of 200 km of its target.
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  3422. The USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narrative that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues including this one (though not quite as bad as most). You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and performance in virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  3423.  @storyls  Not really. That's how it appears to work, but if what you quote were true you could not win with a minority of the popular vote. A republic can be a form of democracy. A constitutional democracies form is dictated by it's constitution. In the USA the constitution provides for the installment of govenment by other than democratic means via the rules of the electoral college and other modifications, so it is a kind of hybrid government. There are virtually no pure democracies on earth, none. In fact the USA is so far from a true democracy that even if a sitting president loses the popular vote, loses the electoral vote, but refuses to consede, they still have a constitutional road to victory. This guy will explain that to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w
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  3424.  @storyls  First of all democracy does not say anything. In a democracy the majority wins. That is the definition of democracy. So if you totally ignore what the word democracy means then what you say would make sense -- sort of. Absolute majority means everyone votes the same way and that has nothing at all to do with anything.
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  3425.  @storyls  How then would a political body have democratic rule without the rule of the majority? In Athens, you had to be a male, citizen, who owned land to be able to vote. This it is true was not the majority of the population, but when these voters caste their votes on a proposal, they placed either a white or black stone into an urn. The stones were then counted and whichever side of the issue had the highest tally won. They were operating under the rule of the majority, not of the population, but of those qualified to vote. For those voters it was a democracy, for everyone else, not. Just as the USA presidential elections are a democracy if you are in the electoral college but not if you are simply voting for an elector whom in many cases is not even obligated to vote in congruence with the majority of the popular vote.
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  3426.  @storyls  So you think there would be rule by the people even if "the people" only constituted a minority of the population. In other words you could make no real distinction between democracy and aristocracy if "the people" were defined as only consisting of those of royal blood. Get real.
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  3427.  @storyls  I am providing insights into the true underpinnings of the delusion that people have that we live in a true democracy and you are quoting dictionary definitions. People are amazed that the popular majority and even the electoral majority are not the rule of law in all cases, and I am just stating that they are deluded by believing they live in a true democracy. We do not, we live in a constitutional republic with a passing wave at democracy. Anyone who is capable of seeing what is really going on and does not confuse concepts for reality can see that we live in a kleptocracy that is presented as a republic, and wraps itself in the trapping of a true democracy. But when it comes to what the power elite want and what they don't want, it's all just a puppet show and the same people have their hands up the ass of both puppets: the puppet that is the DNC and the puppet that is the RNC.
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  3428.  @storyls  Fine: you stick to your dictionary definitions and ignore the fact that the founders themselves were largely an elite subset determined to maintain the power of their status. Stick to your dictionary definition and ignore the fact that the present electoral college is also largely a group of the power elite determined to maintain their status in the face of popular criticism and descent. Stick to your dictionary definition and ignore the present situation in which it is totally constitutional for a siting president to challenge both the popular vote, and the electoral vote and still maintain power legally via the legal structures put in place by the framers. In other words: you are presenting conceptual fantasies that are supported and maintained by the very ruling elite class that you claim is not a part of democratic rule. Not only can't you see the forest for the trees, you apparently mistake verbal concepts and dictionary definitions for reality. There is no democracy without the rule of the majority. Not to mention the fact that the point you are arguing is not even a significant part of my original comment, which broadly details the direction and nature of an escape from the present confusion and deception. Join a debate team or major in modern philosophy or something equally insular with regard to real life.
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  3429.  @storyls  Your tortured rationalizations about what constitutes a "normal class of people" and "elite" are totally ridiculous and self-contradictory and so sophomoric that I cannot justify wasting anymore time with this discussion. I wish you well and complement you on your friendly demeanor. If you haven't watched the video I linked about how Trump can legally maintain power, you may find it interesting. If you actually read the totality of my original post, you may find the ideas presented, though nascent and broadly stroked, a real evolutionary vector for human culture. Join the NeoConfusian TechnoMeritocracy party! Or start one anyhow.
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  3430. But what about the fabled rock salt? I need to know I just met a pretty sporty farm girl. And I am both the best and worst thing that ever happened to her. You figure it out. You're my kind of guys: glib but evil. I know, knights in shining. . . May I introduce you to yourself: the enemy in the mirror (he may wear different colors, and speak gibberish, but you know him -- you are him) and unfortunately for your grandma and granddaughters they are the brunt of you dark humor. So poetic and tragic, or just funny in a caught up in the bull shirt kind of way. Think cosmic, then, think its opposite: there you are.
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  3431. Show this to your moderate friends!!!                    Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxWdsEq_514
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  3432. CNN will find some way to spin this attack on democracy against the victims of it. Wait and see. These corporate approved news organizations are snake pits of corruption. If the bedridden seniors would stop watching them they would have no one to lie to at all. Eat shit and die CNN
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  3433. Just a moment of history here: When Jimmy Carter was president (the last good man to serve in that office: though a man of his times) he laid off a large number of CIA workers because of the dirty tricks they had been caught at. They in turn went to work for the Republican National Committee with the sole goal of getting rid of Carter. Many of these operatives had specialized in destroying economies in South America that threatened American investments with popular movements. These people went to work to wreck the American economy to get rid of Carter. And they did it. Remember the lines for gasoline and the line at unemployment offices, remember the hostages that were only released in Iran when Regan was sworn in? Then Regan proceeded to illegally sell arms to Iran, bring cocaine (via Bush connections in the CIA) into the American ghettos and use the proceeds to finance antipopulist movements in Central America called the contras that basically tortured and massacred all the populist strongholds of normal people who opposed plutocracy. When Bernie gets elected expect the same. We will have people striving to wreck the economy and blame it on Bernie's policies to get him out of office. They will probably be successful. Forewarned is forearmed.
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  3434. What a great country we live in. The pricks on wall street gave us the choice of the two most despised people in the country in the 16 election. We know who is behind the de-evolution of American culture, Mercer, the Koch and company, leading the single issue voters to vote against their own, and America's best interests. In sane countries like Iceland the power elite who caused the banking failure are in prison, we. on the other hand gave them trillions of dollars and put them in charge of fixing what they broke. So they took over the country and the media and have you living in a fantasyland of sick minds.
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  3435. Blame the Palestinians? Blame the Israelis? I blame Lord Rothschild and the British, who are responsible for most of the instability in the Middle East because of their former imperialist policies. Of course the lies of the respective religions are used to rationalize their respective uncivilized brutality (I still remember that Israli bulldozer operator crushing that teenage American girl to death when she tried to stop it from flattening Palestinian homes. And the intentional attack of the USS Liberty by Israeli jets posing as Egyptian in an attempt to drag America into a war.) What do you expect will happen when you run people out of their homes because of inane historical and religious beliefs? Inane anti factual beliefs on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides. Over and over again the British established systems of governance that could only lead to conflict. In this case one of the first things the Jews who moved to Palestine did was blow up the British police station, and when the Brits withdrew they founded Israel on land that was occupied by other people, stealing their land and running them out of their homes because the deeds were held by Turkish concerns that they bought up at bargain bin prices as a result of the Turkish involvement in WW1. The Jewish homeland should have been established in Brazil, where they could have bought unoccupied land at the time for almost nothing.
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  3436. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaCIZPFMIVU looks like an elio. The first vaporware scam EV, well the flying car was the first. Let's hope that Tesla does not use unsprung motors in the hubs like Aptera did.
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  3437. Can't go up hill? Never tested on hills? The whole idea of unsprung motors is ludicrous and not in a good way. They could have power the Aptera with a Lucid electric motor but no. Go for the cheap off the shelf in hub motors. Fail. Does run OK down hills and on perfectly smooth straight roads.
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  3438.  @cheng-s8r  You should ask yourself that because Teslas under FSD have already been proven by the insurance industry to be fourteen times safer than cars driven by humans alone. Based on the average hours of driving before an accident. Get some facts Jack.
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  3439. You are right it is not white men or white privilege, because the exploiting power-elite exploit all equally from their dog-eat-dog psychopathic predatory delusion.
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  3440.  @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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  3441. You do realize that Russia has a weapon that is a submarine nuclear autonomous vehicle. They could have been launched months or years ago, and may be sitting off the USA just waiting for a signal to detonate. Apparently one can cause a tidal wave hundreds of meters high that would crash into coastal cities of the USA.
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  3442. No need for any new law except a law that imposes fines on anyone who uses any mass media to present a lie as a fact. First offense 1k, second offense 10k, third offense 25k, fourth offense -- confiscation of all wealth and banishment for a decade, with a free ticket to Guatemala.
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  3443. He still didn't go deep enough to really understand the current development, tech, and recycling.
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  3444.  @GROND15  Me either, but auto racing in general has more live audience than any other "sports" event.
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  3445. Face it, as long as you support the present form of farce we call government in any way, you really don't have any answers. NeoConfusian TechnoMeritocracy is the only intelligent choice for a government that is not run by thieves.
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  3446. You want an unsprung motor in an off road bike? Think again.
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  3447.  @antonio2134  lol, can I use my Thrustmaster kit?
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  3448. I did not watch this. For obvious reasons: only a nitwit would give a fuck about any royals from anywhere. The only thing that anyone with half a brain would care about royals is how to get rid of the last few scumbags that are still hanging onto the stupidity of the assholes who still admire them. Really people why haven't you outgrown this incredible shit stain on human history that royalty is? There is no excuse for being so stupid that you care about this crap.
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  3449.  @mohammadwasilliterate8037  Maybe you can start an aftermarket mod company.
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  3450.  @mohammadwasilliterate8037  Well, Mohammed, I guess that would depend on how many mods you developed and how many your salesmen sold to aftermarket shops. But excelsior bro.
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  3451. So what are the chances that body-double Melania is just the real Melania but after she had some work done, while she pretended to have CoVid. I say one hundred percent. You heard it here first, because I made it up, but it's still true.
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  3452.  @charliemorrison8168  I also have doubts about the 9/11 attacks, but your theory that all US wars were started because of lies is just incorrect. Do you think it was a lie that Nazi Germany declared war on the USA? Because that is the reason we entered the war in Europe. So how does your theory spin this? Maybe you think that Nazi Germany never declared war against the USA? Or what?
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  3453. Border security is the issue that Trump will slaughter any progressive on. They will trumpet the idea that Bernie wants open borders even though it's not true. The Americans who have been victimized by the power-elite will once again blame it on the least among us. Americans do not want people allowed into the country just because they decided to ignore our laws. Why can't the people that I agree with on almost every other issue understand this. The people who will decide who wins the election, the 70k rust belt voters, want people to follow the law when applying for citizenship. And if the idea is in their mind that Bernie will have open boarders or reward those who spat on our laws to enter illegally, Trump will win again. Now you know why he will win. These are the issues that make Trump 1- border security, 2 - abortion 3 - 2nd amendment rights. These are the issues that the people whose votes count the most care the most about. If you don't realize this you are one of the people living in a PC dreamland. Abortion and firearms are the matters that will determine the votes of many people who are willing to vote against their own best interests no matter what. Border security and the rewarding of those whom, like Trump, think that they are above the law by entering illegally is the issue that will determine the election. If Bernie wants to win he better change his tune on citizenship for those that entered illegally, and convince the public that he will not open the borders. If you think we have a polarized society now with an evaporating middle class, look at any country south of the border, Americans do not want that for their country. PS. I predict a huge caravan of Central Americanss making it's way toward the US border during the election. Think about how that will play to those 70k rust belt voters. Trump will win in a landslide unless Bernie modifies his position on the people who are already here and the manner in which these people are processed legally. We must stop rewarding people for breaking our laws, both Trump and his ilk, and those who enter the country illegally.
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  3454. Why all the use of "unrelenting" instead of "relentless"? It reminds me of the passed fad to use the word "wheelhouse" instead of "purview".
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  3455. 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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  3456.  @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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  3457. I am not ashamed of being a progressive, but unfortunately many people who consider themselves progressives are just partisan idiots who see no difference between mountains and mole hills, and somehow think that all the cultures and nations that have been superseded by modern republics were peace loving environmentally conscious ideal states. They know nothing about real history and as Bill Maher said, "The woke are the people who slept through history class."
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  3458. I wish Elon would start practicing yoga on a regular basis, and maybe take some time off for a spa day now and then.
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  3459. If you are taken in by politicians of any bent, you are either young and dumb or just dumb.
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  3460. This whole subject is the babble of the insane puritanical conditioning of the populace by the psychopaths that are in control. These laws create a climate in which people turn to street drugs and the hell our laws hand to them. It is insane to think that prohibition works. It does not work and it has never worked. Even in countries with death penalties for use and sale of drugs, it does not work. Opioids are one of the most benign drugs you can use long term. Less harmful than common over the counter drugs that the fools who believe these laws take regularly. Switzerland solved their heroin problem by making it freely available to addicts. What happened? They self titrated and went back to work instead of being out on the street trying to come up with the money for dealers.  This whole problem is self-created. Perhaps we should return to the ultra insane times when doctors and loved ones would withhold pain meds from those in their care who were dying in agony, because they did not want them to become addicted in the final months of their lives. This used to happen all the time, not so long ago. I witnessed it happen to a beloved great aunt when I was a teenager. Anyone who supports this policy is an idiot and thinks that doing the same thing that doesn't work over and over again is a good idea. Why were opioids made illegal in the first place? Because the miners and other factory serfs in England began to prefer tinctures of opium as opposed to alcohol. With good reason. So of course the distillers demonized the use of same. While the facts are that opioids are far less harmful than alcohol or even than tylenol. If you don't know these facts, and I suspect you do not. You basically know nothing about what you have commented on. Which is par for the course on the net. If you really dislike drug dealers, both criminal and noncriminal, then you should be in favor of complete decriminalization of all molecules, and the sanction for anyone to grow any plant they want to and use it themselves, like any free adult should be able to do. Then a person could grow a little plot of poppies and treat their own pain.
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  3461. This was like a grade-school analysis of a fantasy.
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  3462. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAOVUo5TYJM
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  3463. Nomiki Konst says that Bernie cannot be cheated with super delegates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACn94wTAZJ4
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  3464. I am just befuddled by the implication of the name. As you know, Prometheus is the titan that stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind. Which in general metaphoric terms means he bestowed technology on them, the advent of technology implies the ignition of the symbolic thought beyond the genetically directed instinctive behaviors. The advent of man representing to himself what can be, instead of just perceiving "what is". He sees a dried field, he can imagine it as what it is not: an irritated field. He sees water flowing in a ditch, he imagines it as it is not: rising above it;'s own level, and envisions the configurations, some workable some not, of materials that could result in water doing this very un-water-like action. This would later lead to all kinds of problems with humanity called differences of opinion, especially about one of his other fantasies that came true, geopolitics. Needless to say we are far down the rabbit hole and stating that all this kind of military development is insane to begin with, means little in a world dominated by the results of mankind seeing things "not as they are". Without which possibility there would be no technological, intellectual, or artistic culture. But of course this angered the gods, because really, igniting the mind function in man was analogous to eating the apple that got another mythical character expelled from paradise. So the gods condemned Prometheus to be chained to a rock for eternity, and each day an eagle would fly down and tear out his liver and eat it. I guess titans can grow back their livers in a day. So what the hell were the people who named this missile getting at, if anything?
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  3465.  @rmo9808  On the positive side: right-wing nuts killing themselves in mass like lemmings is natures way of riding itself of intellectual dinosaurs. Big gun and pickup -- little brain and dick.
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  3466. Most of you are arguing over a word "counteroffensive". This is meaningless.
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  3467. All Trump all the time. Sounds like the seventh level of hell to me.
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  3468. Yeh, that's not what's happening. What's happening is that used Teslas are selling for more than they cost new.
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  3469.  @lengould9262  You are saying there is a risk that resale values will decline and that people should consider delaying purchases. I say that the facts on the ground show the opposite. The longer you wait to purchase, the more it will cost. Especially when people begin to realize that when FSD is perfected, their family car can bring in a hundred k a year as a robotaxi, instead of sitting in the driveway. You presume that when the new factories are up to speed that the market will be saturated. I say this will never happen, and it is a possibility that in the future you will not be able to buy a Tesla at all, because they will be used in robo fleets either run by Tesla or other car rental agencies.
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  3470. People have become hyper alert to Tesla body gaps. They now see gaps on Teslas that they would never have seen on a GM product because they weren't looking as critically. I am a GM owner and I have GAPS.
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  3471.  @goodenergy11  And he pays well huh Grace? Bloomberg is part of the problem not the solution. Without his money he is a bigoted nothing, with it he is a rich bigot.
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  3472. Perhaps people should take half of what Elon says with a grain of salt and just disregard the rest? Unless he is talking about large issues, socio-evolutionary issues, issues concerning humanity and the possible futures available in human destiny: then by all means take him seriously, or, if, for instance, he is talking about technological specifics, having to do with real physical problems, but when it comes to politics, and economics and especially media image, he is playing someone else's game in someone else's venue and the fix is in.
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  3473. I wouldn't want to be short Tesla right now. Though I thank the shorts and all the foolish FUD for the current discounts. Looking forward to more, until they finally give it up. Tesla shorts minus $66,000,000,000 and counting, but maybe you will beat the odds. Put your money where your mouth is -- give it a shot.
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  3474.  @BBingo-v5i  Since its shares started trading publicly, shorts have suffered a net loss of $61.8 billion, according to S3. Put your money where your mouth is -- give it a shot. I'm rooting for you Elroy.
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  3475.  @BBingo-v5i  Not as mind blowing as your ignorance Elroy. Since its shares started trading publicly, shorts have suffered a net loss of $61.8 billion, according to S3.
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  3476. I would be quite careful in the use of the word hybrid when referring to the offspring of different ethnic or "racial" groups. While the offspring of two dissimilar human strains like Norweigan and Cambodian who were formerly line breed due to locality and lack of any significant migration will certainly exhibit "hybrid vigor" due to less chance of detrimental recessive combinations, people do not generally refer to to the offspring of two different breeds of dogs as hybrids, while the offspring of two different subspecies or species like was used to produce the Bengal cat is considered a hybrid. Their are no different human species, or even subspecies, all humans are simply different varieties of the same species, like all truly domestic dogs are. While it could be loosely considered correct in a non scientific use of the word, those children are really no more a hybrid than the offspring of a union of a linebred Amish person with a Spanish person from an insular background. Or like the many results of the first unions of the various ethnic groups that migrated to America, like a Swede and an Italian.
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  3477. If you listen to this and believe it, you are either a dumb shit or like Rogan are in the pocket of the meat industry.
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  3478. Don't fret poor people, you can get a used Miata for the price of a software update, and it will be much more fun to drive then a tesla.
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  3479. Nobody cares if you don't vote or why.
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  3480.  @michelleclark8099  Inane rhetoric will get you nowhere.
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  3481.  @michelleclark8099  Only in your mind. Silly girl.
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  3482.  @michelleclark8099  Grow up.
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  3483.  @michelleclark8099  Grow up.
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  3484. Yeah here's the thing, you have to pull down the tyrants not the statues of the tyrants a hundred years after they're dead. What is the present evil that is bleeding Congo? It's mainly cell phones. The minerals they need for cell phones is responsible for the present brutality in Congo. Are you going to give up your cell phone because it causes butchery? Now you know why Leopold didn't give a fuck about the misery he caused. Neither do you. That's how ordinary evil is. We are all complicit in the rape of Congo. . . . over and over and over.
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  3485. Sorry the public is too busy watching porn, sports, netfix, and video games to care about anything but their own petty pseudo experiences that stimulate dopamine release.
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  3486. ​ @franzjoseph1837  Many woke puddin' heads apply the cultural sensitivities of the present developed countries to the historic actions of what you refer to as the west but which consists of a melange of cultures, states of social evolution, and technological sophistication, not to mention various governmental styles. Yet you fail to take note of the typical barbarism of the peoples whom where exploited, by the spread of western powers through colonialism in the past and capitalism in the present, and whom were not lacking in the least for local exploiters of all stripes. Much like the naive and historically ignorant American students who think that the first nations and various tribal groups in the Americas were peaceful environmentalists who respected one another and the environment, while nothing could be further from the truth.
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  3487.  @hitmusicworldwide  I think you are responding to a comment that i didn't make.
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  3488.  @franzjoseph1837  . . . nope
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  3489.  @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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  3490. F1 is not a "space program" it is a big dick contest between teams and countries.
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  3491. Why are you so afraid of the truth that you have to delete every comment that details the real history of the first nations? Whoever is deleting my comments, fuck you and the nazi horse your rode in on.
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  3492. I hear rumors of a special group Darwin Award presentation.
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  3493. CNN and MSNBC report that in the race between Bernie and Buttegieg: Pete came in second over-all but Bernie only managed to place next to last.
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  3494.  michellenorris8471  I thought I read stupid comments in the past, but now, after reading yours some don't seem so stupid in comparison.
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  3495. The US government has the technology to identify every looter if they wanted to. They can even do it now, after the fact. If they wanted to.
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  3496.  @luddity  Please supply references for this statement. I used to think the same thing, then learned that the blanket story was incorrect and the decimation of the native nations proceeded as the early traders and mountain men came in contact. This was way before the government or settlers. There were plenty of evil actions (on both sides) such is the way of ALL humans when there are resources in contention. It is best to think of humanity in it's entirety as opportunistic slime molds, yet as individuals we find the truly noble: here and there, now and then.
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  3497. Those aren't the Russian defenses that matter much. GPS jamming capability, EW, S400 SAMs, a relatively intact airforce, mean much more.
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  3498.  James Pritchard  This may seem silly (and it is) but, we went into Afghanistan because George W Bush is an imbecile, and wasn't going to back up one iota on the ultimatum he presented to the Taliban. Even after they offered to do exactly what he demanded in the first place.
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  3499.  @davidbeppler3032  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4r61VM_GNw
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  3500. Sounds like all the breakthroughs that are right around the corner: far off.
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  3501.  @Unbothered75  Just don't lighten up near a gas car wreck if it actually involves lighting something up.
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  3502. Makes sense. Think about it, haven't Ukrainian losses increased our support for Ukraine?
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  3503. You see ads on YouTube? Get firefox and youtube addons stop ads
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  3504.  @fredbloggs5902  The average US is thirty miles a day.
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  3505.  @fredbloggs5902  Dear Fred, I was happy before, and continue to be happy. Personally I drive a generic SUV in the winter and my old 97 Miata anytime that there is no salt on the road. But I will buy a Cybertruck in the future which I have on reserve for about a year or so. And best of all, the profits on my investments in Tesla will more than pay for it. Yes I am happy. Thanks for caring. I am presently quite encouraged that due to the geopolitical situation, and the lock down in China, there will be another dip in Tesla stock. If I am so lucky that it approaches $750 I will bet the farm on it. One of my few investments that I get happiness from both when it is going up and when it is going down. Because anyone with real knowledge of the situation knows that despite the media FUD due to the fact that they don't give the media hundreds of millions a year in ad revenues, or wine and dine car mags with free specially built cars to test, and free gas sometimes for a year, and all expense paid junkets to their press events -- Tesla will triumph baring a world wide extinction event.
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  3506. Science never believed it. Though a few editors of journals apparently did.
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  3507.  @noleftturns  As I remember it, most professionals neither believed it nor could they duplicate it in independent studies. I think you have a very contrived memory of what actually happened, or you only approach subjects via pop media that is not their to inform you but to sell advertising space/time. The popular media does not accurately reflect the knowledge or attitudes of most scientists.
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  3508.  @noleftturns Point of "extension" huh? Here's some news for you. I don't care what you think. You obviously have no grasp on reality, and prefer mimes made up by some stoner who lives in their mom's basement to real evidence.
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  3509. Taylor Swift did not coin the term "Haters gotta hate." People were saying that about right-wing nuts when she was still in diapers.
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  3510. If the Germans were actually intelligent they would shut down the coal and oil electric plants, that actually cause millions of deaths with pollution and recommission the nuclear plants they have shut down, which put them under the thumb of the Russians. At least until they have wind and solar that can replace the polluting plants. Nuclear is actually green energy. What idiots, they get some stupid impression and then believe it to the death. I live about ten miles from a nuclear plant that causes zero pollution and has never caused any problems for more than forty years.
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  3511. teenager
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  3512.  @thezamorai5331  16 -- Too lazy to use google yourself?
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  3513.  @thezamorai5331  child (chīld) n. A person between birth and puberty. Perhaps you are or were a child at 16. I was not. You are correct in a sense. He was the child of his father who also got blown up.
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  3514.  @jnkimuhu  lol, sure pal, the Russians are proving that in Ukraine right now. They know how to steal and rape, and murder and have no idea about how to use combined arms to advance or win.
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  3515. @Danford Smith I am always surprised and delighted when someone responds to something I have posted without hostility or some immature form of criticism. As you point out, these new forms of media present a challenge and there is no shortage of persons with views that entail various degrees of squirrelliness (if that is a word). My main interest is in the apparent ability that some very few people have to experience their existence in a hyperconsious manner. This has been my raison d'etre for well over fifty years. So please indulge me if everything I mention is relative to the central concept (as erroneous as any such conception necessarily is) of awakening or enlightenment. If a person is not enlightened at the very moment, even if they themselves have had experiences wherein they were conscious in a manner that makes their ordinary state appear impoverished, mechanical, and dead by comparison, they know nothing about this higher state, can't say anything accurate or useful about it, and have no memories about it that aren't self-deception. Of course if one is talking, or thinking (or writing) they ain't -- as it's called -- AWAKE. I almost wrote a little discourse on why AI will never be conscious. But alternately and just as accurately I could have written about why the thought-centric-mind (which most people refer to as "I") is not, and can never be conscious. I can hear the objections rising in minds out there even before I have posted this. But just for a minute for the benefit of anyone who may come across this, whose potential for an enriched form of conscious functioning has not totally atrophied, let's just imagine that the view I am presenting is less incorrect than their present view: that they are the source of their thoughts and that the thought arising in them are theirs. Well I am going to stop now. I doubt if this made any sense to anyone or if there is anyone out there who would be interested enough to merit further comment. But allow me to once more quote one of my favorite statements on this apparent subject (I say "apparent" because what I am attempting to refer to, is not and CANNOT be a subject). When referring to what can be considered accurate in this regard Carlos Dwa wrote: . . . "If you can think it, it cannot be correct."
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  3516.  @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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  3517.  @simplethings3730  I believe my sense of humor is alien to you. But thanks -- whatever you meant to clear up.
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  3518.  @julieannmyers8714  lol
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  3519. What does it matter if they are not going to go mass because it cuts into profits?
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  3520. 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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  3521. WoW I own BYD so want it succeed, but your ideas about China are mere fantasies. China is not dominating in every industry except auto manufacturing. They can't even build a viable commercial airline, they are generations behind in advanced semiconductor manufacture, and it goes on and on. You fail to realize that the main reason that China is so fast to build things, many of them useless and rotting away, is because the insiders want to turn their fiat currancy which they print at five times the rate of the USA into material options so they have an escape when the entire system crashes, which will be soon. Now you have deleted my last post about this matter, but there is no sense in trying to hide the real geopolitical facts from your viewers unless you prime motive is to deceive them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zGQFceDrIM
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  3522. Politics sucks ass. Isn't it apparent to everyone by now that our political system is an archaic artifact? An artifact based on humanities inability to escape it's bestial warlike nature . . . :campaigns, winner take all victories, leaders who neither lead (excepting the advancement of the concerns of their patrons) nor have the wisdom to make intelligent impartial decisions on the issues of the day. This political web of deceit is a self-perpetuating parasite that warps collective social culture and is itself continually warped due to shameful self-interested exploitation by those who control the economy through control of debt manipulation. Interests and principalities that spew false narratives which have contaminated every aspect of our expectations of daily life, and our future aspirations (or lack of them). I suggest to you that there are other alternatives. Far more efficient alternatives, that would benefit the whole of society and reduce the corruption that is not only a systemic disease of our political system, but is now the very sinew, marrow, and circulatory system, of a body politic that has done everything possible to free itself from both morality and justice: through legislative and legal complexities, technicality, outright lies, and all manner of fuckery. It is time to evolve folks. Like a cool pool on a hot day, once you take the plunge it's refreshing and rejuvenating, but before you take that plunge there is hesitation and a resistance to a state change. And we must change the state of our state unless we consider moving into the future by looking through a rear-view mirror and stepping on our own dicks every step of the way while perpetually bitiching about it to be some kind of desirable human prerogative. Because as it is, it will never be able to meet our real human needs or provide anything more than updated reruns of the same old conundrums. If human culture and civilization is to advance it must evolve to a higher state, a higher system of state, which will nurture higher states of mind in the populace, not continually drag it back by aggravating the primal survival instinct in a technological environment wherein this instinct is counterproductive on numerous levels. I suggest to you that a body politic based on a NeoConfusian Techno-Meritocracy would be so vastly superior for the state of the state, state of the economy, state of human advancement, and our collective state of mind, that any comparison to the present drunken-knife-fight-in-a-gilded-bordello that passes for our government would be comical.
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  3523. These "news people" are shameless. It is so obvuous that Bloomburg has some of then co-opted. Money talks and Bloomburg's money also tips. Did you see the debate? If so why would you care what these people think? They are all elitists, some of them are nice elitists, but come on. they have been dismissing Bernie since the get go and now are being forced to admit the reality. What is the reality? The reality is that Bernie is not only the most popular senator, not only the most popular politician in Congress, not only the most popular politician in the Country he is the most popular politician in the world -- because thinking and compassionate people the world over are praying that the USA will come out of this movement into unconsciousness and the promotion of a policies based on primitive emotions and knee-jerk reactions will come to an end. They know they need us, and they need us sane and humane if civilization is going to have any chance of surviving the psychopaths that have gotten themselves into positions of power via charisma and cunning. To these "journalists" this is a game that pays more money, the more stupid things they can say about it. This is not a game. If the right-wing nuts like Mercer, and his flunkies, like Trump, maintain the reigns of power: your are getting a deal on a squirt gun while your house is in a fire storm of lies and disinformation, on subjects that will determine the lives of your children and perhaps yourself. End this insanity. Pick the right man for a change, not the richest, the best connected or the one that lies best, choose who you actually think is the best. . . not the lesser of two evils. The lesser of two evils is the choice that Goldman Sachs and the other banksters will give you.  This is your one chance in your lifetime to vote for a real person who is not a cats paw for elements of corruption. It's not a sexy subject but it you pay attention, Bernie knows how important it is to get money out of elections. How important is it? It is the most important issue. It is the basis of the legalized bribery that insures that you elected official are there: not to represent the voice of the people, no, rather they are there to make sure that the voice of the people never gets a hearing, and if by some chance on some issue it does get a hearing they will make sure it is never acted upon. Don't be fearful and full of hate, humanity has a golden destiny that has been stolen from the many by the few. It is time to wake up and clarify our nation's values once more. Not in meaningless word or deceitful narratives designed to seduce by playing to fears and greed. We cannot move into the new age using a rear-view mirror for a guidance system. Don't be afraid, Bernie's views and positions are not more radical than the Scandinavian views and practices and even the vaunted quality of upward social mobility is higher in all of them then it is here. Not to mention personal happiness and financial security and safety. Don't let the people who own the media make you paranoid. They have a greedy reason for misrepresenting the fact as did Boomburg tonight with is talk of communism and such. It's just ridiculous that he could stand there and insult the public's intelligence so blatantly. Fear not, feel the Bern.
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  3524. Here's the news: A compulsive liar has been lying, and the people who report about the compulsive liar are shameless, and apparently brainless rumor mongers trying to gain ratings to increase the profit they make selling commercial time. Both the compulsive liar, the networks, cable networks, and popular mass media are almost entirely owned by the same people who own the various politicians (including Trump). They present an apparent adversarial relationship to the clueless public who is continually brainwashed by their spin and lies 24/7. This fake dichotomy: liberal/conservative, pro-trump/anti-trump, religious/pragmatic, up/down, right/wrong, true/false is continually infused into the collective awareness, in order to keep them divided and in conflict, so that a hand full of megalomaniac auto-compulsive psychopaths and their deviant sycophant enablers (including police and military that are willing to violate the rights of private citizens) can maintain the stranglehold they have over the wealth and destiny of humanity. And you all fall for it continually -- continually. . . . even the smart ass critics among you are deluded by the human nervous systems natural tendency to divide everything into two opposing vectors, simply because the nervous system itself operates on opposing charges we have designated as positive and negative in the ionic sphere. The reality is that almost no one has anything outside of the magic circle of these dichotomies to say. Not that I expect anything objective (outside of the scientific disciplines and even that is stretching it) out of humanity at this point, but you should at least know were you stand, if you are capable of that. You stand firmly on the shores of delusions made real by acts they inspire.
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  3525. The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources, cars, planes, electric plants, etc, combined) The most important thing you can do as an individual to address climate change is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, your grandchildren will be forced to determine whether to eat their babies to survive a few more weeks when crops fail globally. Your choice, indulge your blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered mindless opinions, or leave future generations an earth worth living on. Or you can just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things like Bezo's money and ignore the situation until it is beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of you, even if convinced of the reality of the global climate situation will go on with your rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now, are you a rational moral being, or a mad machine that really has no control over yourself?
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  3526. What of Trumps negative comments about him? . . . Still left wing BS? Or maybe right wing BS? Or maybe the kind of BS that minds that only think in dichotomies and polarized knee-jerks -- Sh1tt -- all over everything all the time, because of their problem of diarrhea of the mouth simultaneous with their condition of constipation of the brain.
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  3527. Boeing and Nammo: ramjet shells will rule
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  3528. Some people are just not happy unless everyone in the room knows how stupid they are. Their are three types of Trump supporters: the greedy who don't want to pay their share -- like Robert Mercer who is the real money behind Trump and Bannon and all the fake news orgs he spawned, the opportunistic who realize that Trump is attempting to replace the power elite with himself and a bunch of family and yes-men and think this is a golden opportunity to move up in the world, and the vast majority of Trump supporters who are basically rubes who are having the wool pulled over their eyes by a NYC conman wrapped in the flag. The problem here is that they are generally too dumb to realize how incredibly stupid their ideas about reality are.
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  3529. Joe "Anyone who comments on YouTube videos is a loser" Rogan. . . . -- I like Joe: even if he is popular because he is safe and doesn't really constitute any kind of threat to the consensus reality. In order to actually be edgy you have to know were the edge is. The edge between the primary physical world and the secondary world generated by the cortical activity of your favorite organ, . . .well second favorite, . . . . . well maybe third.
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  3530. Not model 2 . . . model T -- for a hundred reasons including Giga Kahunas.
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  3531. Never trust anyone who bases their opinions on nonsense and states it like it is a commandment from on high.
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  3532. Wow, what a bunch of crap. Russia is doomed. The demographic cliff awaits the mobster kingdom.
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  3533.  @sentientnatalie  If you think that someone is missing out by not listening to someones opinion, it is you that is missing -- vital intelligence.
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  3534. It's never all over. You think it should be all over, then along comes something like a solar powered Aptera, which may happen, and it all starts up again.
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  3535.  @dradilkhan5320  How about Chris Matthews? Just kidding. The reason it is important that PA loves Bernie is because the people in PA, and a few other states, votes count much more than, say, California. Hopefully this is something that Bernie can fix when he is president.
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  3536.  @mindfreak078589  I am speaking of the trees and hills and farmland and anyone with a brain, a heart, and the bit of courage that is necessary to overcome decades of brainwashing by the the power-elite and their radical right-wingnut dupes.
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  3537.  @mindfreak078589  You are a perfect example. You think democrats are left wing. I really can't respond to you because speaking with someone as brainwashed as you is a study in futility. When Bernie is pres we will send you to a farm for reeducation. There you can learn about turnips -- other than the one you use instead of a brain. PS, since you are probably too dim to realize it, that was what's call sarcasm.
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  3538.  @robertrichard6107  Well said, and quite true.
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  3539. No doubt America could learn a lot from the sane countries of the world, like yours and New Zealand, and the Nordic counties in general. But we like to keep our public dumbed down so they will believe any crap that the media tells them and can be easily manipulated by cultural warriors and other assholes like Trump.
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  3540. 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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  3541. Reality check -- almost any job you can get without a college degree is more dangerous than being a patrol cop. The grounds keeper at your local golf course has a much more dangerous job than a patrolman.
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  3542. Well the cops don't find that to be as much fun.
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  3543. The precursors that are used to manufacture synthetic opioids are sourced in China, mostly by Mexican drug cartels. Our stupid drug laws have made the most vicious criminals on earth billionaires.
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  3544. Ukraine cannot win anything, but they can defeat the Russians who invaded their country. For Ukraine to win something they would have to take something from Russia which was not their own to begin with: They will not do this even if they could, for fear of Russian nuclear insanity.
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  3545. Believing nonsense is fun and easy. And you will never realize what an idiot you appear to anyone with a foot in reality. But no, you know the secret: that tons of mercury are flowing in the "pyramid of South America" -- whatever fantasy land that exists in. "The pyramid of South America" -- I just realized you are a child who has no clue as to what is real and what isn't.
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  3546.  @GloryBeToGodForever  Hearsay is not evidence.
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  3547.  @frankfarago2825  You look like an adult: kind of misleading.
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  3548.  @GloryBeToGodForever  True enough: because no one goes to hell. Child.
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  3549.  @mindseyeproductions8798  Seek therapy.
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  3550.  @GloryBeToGodForever  Silly Glory: You do not know what your are talking about. You are going on hearsay from generations of gossip and intentional manipulation of a story. The absolutely worst way to determine if some story is true or not is to believe it first, and then look for evidence to support it. You need to get smarter, more objective and use the best evidence and reason to investigate the things you now take as true. They are not true. Things are actually far more wonderful than the hideous cosmology described in the work of fiction you believe in. . . . Stories that were a stratagem used by the power elite to confuse and control the masses. Here is the simple truth of your situation (not that it will do you any good, but you should have the chance of hearing it) Total objectivity, in the moment, about your own subjective processes, IS cosmic awareness. I know you think you understand these words, but think again. Starting from where you are, it is nearly impossible to enact them. This is not a belief it is an activation. A belief is just a guess, no matter how your little heart goes pitter-patter upon hearing a story about how special you are to your imaginary friend. If you are really sincere in a desire to experience the divine, this is the direction, not some manipulated fiction that fills your head with nonsense and manipulates your emotions.
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  3551. Blinding flash of the obvious: The pipelines to Europe run through Ukraine -- yet not sabotage? . . .
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  3552. Let's get Jessie V in the mix. A real populist, a real man. Liberal socially Conservative economically.
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  3553. Who came first the chicken or the egg? . . . the rooster.
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  3554. 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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  3555. If they are firing guided munitions that doesn't really matter does it? Excalibur equals death to Orc armor. It's not the gun it's the shell.
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  3556. As unfortunate as it may be, the immigrant situation is the one issue that Trump and his ilk can ride to another win. Most people do not want open boarders, or people who disrespect the immigration laws to gain any type of asylum.
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  3557. 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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  3558. I am usually sympathetic to your views, but I think you missed it here. The difference is not the threat of physical action, but the fact that the CIA has leaked the knowledge that NK has already miniaturized their nuclear weapons. If true that is what makes all the difference. Unlike what many think, the USA has no antimissile system, except what is used for old mid range missiles, and even then they only hit half of the time even in tests that are fixed to be successful. If the US has lasers or particle beams that can burn out missiles in boost phase this is the time to demonstrate them on their next test fire.
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  3559. You are right except that no one really "decided" how they feel about things. Though they may think they did in retrospect, it is an illusion.
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  3560. 40:00 Some of those stories are failed explanations of the physical reality of the ignition of dormant possibilities within the nervous and limbic systems, as opposed to the versa visa. All concepts about such, are misconceptions, and can be nothing else. Or to put it simply: just because you are not talking or thinking does not mean you are awake, but if your are talking or thinking, it does mean that you aren't. At least while you are thinking or talking.
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  3561. Tuff to evoke any compassion for those who would just slit your throat and be done with it, if your situations were reversed. I guess the bleeding hearts will bleed for every group except the ones that brought most of the fruits of modern civilization to them. Just learn how to romanticize the primitive and project fantasies upon that state that they never possessed in reality and you to can be lost in the delusional spin of a fictitious narrative. This may just be a circumstance where it would be a net positive to remove children from their mothers. Not much chance that the faithful will abandon their fantastic beliefs, the systems that reinforce the lies they believe make Fox New disinformation and the right-wing-nut inability to distinguish facts from fiction, look objective and benign by comparison.
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  3562. Far more climate friendly than any gas or diesel cars elroy. If you think that people are going to exclusively use mass transit you are delusional.
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  3563. Would you buy snake oil from this man? 'Cause he sure as heck doesn't mind selling it. Just another conman for the rubes who voted for Trump to be deceived once more. Way to go dummies. Too stupid to know how dumb you are.
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  3564. 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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  3565. I like music as much as anybody and more than most, but that barely audible background music is just annoying. YOur channel is informative and entertaining enough without it IMO.
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  3566. This is not a new weapon, it was used in the middle east and Afghanistan.
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  3567.  @smacksman1  Kind of strange how hard it is to find specific info on usage in battle. To me personally, I expect it will be kind of hard to mask whether or not it is as effective as the statistics indicate when used in Ukraine. I expect it will be. It's apparently been around in an ever evolving form since the late nineties. According to Wikipedia the program started in 92 and the first big batch was delivered in 97. I'm glad you asked this question, because I knew it had been deployed but no real details. Someone told me they had seen a lot of early Excaliburs fail to explode but it could have just been bull, or a Russian bot-brain. What we do seem sure of is that their have been loads of development and variation. When DARPA really get behind a tech, nobody does it better. So we know that 690 Ex shells have been fired in theater. In Afghanistan. I had thought Iraq and possibly elsewhere, but I was probably wrong about Iraq, and if it was use in battle elsewhere I can't find it. It was first used in battle in Afghanistan in 2008. Apparently mostly used to kill Taliban that attacked isolated outposts. Apparently it works so well that commanders frequently called in fire with only a fifty meter distance between themselves and the enemy, with devastating effect. We are talking one shell to end an attack by fifty or so bad guys. That is quite a different scenario since the Taliban, didn't really have artillery of effect. But it seems to me that this anti-artillery roll is more or less what the Ex was made for. I mean, it can hit moving targets on the first try. And the USA and allied countries have loads of them. They are not going to run out, by just destroying all the Russian artillery and tanks, they probably have enough to do that several time. Of course, like some have pointed out, the problem is not going to be Russian artillery, but air to ground and high tech guided missiles. I have already made my comments on that, being a losing propositioning for the Russians, who are estimated to have already used the bulk of their missiles blowing up apartment buildings and theaters and hospitals. I guess we will see how good the German medium range anti-aircraft armor is, and eventually how good the Israeli Iron Dome system is. I would not want to be near Russian Artillery when the German and Dutch donated German self-propelled howitzers show up, and the American and Canadian towed guns can network and do exactly the same things, less parts, less to go wrong. It the Russians don't have some form of total air superiority by then they are basically screwed. I would love to see a first use of the Norwegian ram-jet shell during this conflict. What an awesome ordinance for the free world, and Norway may be one of the best of the west, even though it is kind of east.
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  3568. Supercharging your miata was interesting -- how did that end up by the way. Seeing you not happy with an S2000 was valuable, but I couldn't care less about cars and engineering that only princes and the very wealthy can obtain.
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  3569.  @JasonWW2000  Advantages: it's cheap and uncomplicated. Disadvantages: everything else that has been learned over a century in motorsports that claims that unsprung weight is so bad that people cut ounces and grams whenever possible.
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  3570.  @JasonWW2000  What are you basing your opinion on? Very hard to believe when the pros are spending money to reduce unsprung weight because it is the most significant factor in handling.
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  3571.  @koantao8321  Incredible bull. You must know nothing about the history of Islam.
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  3572. So what are the chances that body-double Melania is just the real Melania but after she had some work done, while she pretended to have CoVid. I say one hundred percent. You heard it here first, because I made it up, but it's still true.
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  3573. "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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  3574. You sir are easily amused.
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  3575. Get real only noobs use blue book, no dealer has used it for decades, they use the black book and the weekly wholesale auction results to value used cars.
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  3576. Rather have a cybertruck. 2.9 0-60 Which is useable, unlike a high top speed.
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  3577. Over twenty negative Tesla "news" stories on the yahoo finance Tesla chart page today. Every one of them is faulty or just outright incorrect. This cannot be totally attributed to reporters all having their heads up their asses. Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CNBC: I have done better in the market by either ignoring their reports entirely, or going contrarian to their reports. These people are idiots.
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  3578. The mafia never forgets. The communists took their Cuban criminal empire and closed it down.
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  3579.  @HKim0072  If it was legal it would be cheap and not worth stealing.
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  3580.  @StrangerHappened  That's because the top ten percent are the only people whose desires really figure into political decisions in the USA, unless the Republicans are in then it's the top one percent. Those people do not use infrastructure and would rather have you die than pay ten cents more in taxes.
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  3581.  @masakitonguba8919  Get er' done. One way or the same one way.
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  3582.  @anabona4764  Unless you have some funds to appropriate on personal satisfaction of say, an artistic, or scientific, or educational or almost any worthwhile study or endeavor other than milking moose -- then Philadelphia is a quite different world than the random impressions one gets from a street level view, in particular sections on videos made mostly as click bait.
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  3583.  @anabona4764  The discussion is whether the Congo, or the Russian client states infrastructure is better than Philadelphia. Not whether Philly is worse than LA. The point is that if you have money you are way better off in Philly than the Congo, or Siberia. Have no idea why you think we are comparing LA and Philly.
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  3584.  @anabona4764  No body cares what you think.
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  3585. No he doesn't need anything but to dethrone the royalty nonsense so the British can stop being puddin' heads.
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  3586. This is the other pandemic that few Americans are aware of. Is this Nazi Germany? Is this east Berlin? This death by brain dead evil cops must stop. All police nationwide should be intensely investigated and psychologically tested and tested in scenarios before giving them the privilege of being above the law that they now have, thanks to the power-elite wanting a police force that will not hesitate to use deadly force against common American citizens for concerns that they will meet the death penalty or serve time. No special police prisons. All police should be made to wear body cams while on duty with no way to be turned off. Any one of you could be murdered by a cop that will end up paying nothing for his crime. Dumb psychopaths who enjoy maiming and killing people become criminals, smart ones become cops. Are all cops dirty? No, but even the best of them lie in court all the time.
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  3587.  @paulpaul9226 Because he ruined the economy by giving tax breaks to the richest while at the same time running the USA into debt faster than any president, He deported half as many illegals as Obama did per year, there was a war in Afghanistan and other areas all during his term, gas is cheaper now, and the USA is producing gas now faster than it ever did and is the number one producer and exporter in the world. So basically everything you think is totally incorrect. But I understand how things are in Trump fantasy land. A good place for no nothings to believe nonsense.
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  3588. Why? Counties are vying against each other to attract Tesla to manufacture in their country.
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  3589. How about buying a Tesla and having it in a robotaxi fleet? Would that not be better than either? You may even end up making some money.
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  3590. Apparently there is a company in the Netherlands that does this. Search on youtube, some car channel guy took his old leaf and had it refurbished there.
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  3591.  @MENDNZ  I wish I lived in New Zealand: apparently one of the few sane governments on earth, though I am sure that many individuals have their complaints as is only mechanically human. Rudy Heeman lives in New Zealand, and if I lived there I would hire him to build me one of these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEm5tloP0Uw&t=2s This one sold at auction for 25k but it wouldn't have if I was there. I would have bought it and shipped it back to the states where something similar but not as good would cost you over 125k.
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  3592. 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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  3593.  @PremusRed  Nope -- they aim by radar.
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  3594.  @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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  3595.  mehrimazedeh  The football played by the Irish miners in America (sometimes Molly Maguires) reflects this as it was often played with hidden weapons or weaponized boots, brass knucles etc.
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  3596. best euphemism so far in 2018 "Gender assignment." As if there is a time in a person's life where the culture assigns them a gender instead of it being what they see in the mirror.
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  3597. legalized version of mild meth? . . . caffeine LD50 for caffeine .5 grams -- way more deadly then cocaine. Coca Cola was the best legal form of meth when it had cocaine in it.
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  3598. What is the point of having police wear body cams if they can turn them off?
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  3599. The USA is not a democracy. It was never intended to be a democracy by the founders. It is a constitutional republic, which is a form of government designed to present the illusion of democracy to the populace while keeping real power and wealth in the hands of a few families and power elite plutocrats. This may or may not be a good thing. A real direct democracy, which is only evident in a few regions of Switzerland and nowhere else in the world, or history, would be a catastrophe in a culture which is most typified by it's public information being basically one or another narrative that are actually partisan webs of lies, as are evident in all our mass media venues. You cannot have an effective democracy when there are no controls on the dissemination of disinformation and false narratives, by corporations chasing advertising revenues and scoundrels seeking power. To think this will ever amount to anything other than the hodgepodge of insanity that is our public forum of debate is itself insane. It's time to grow up and wrest the sinews of our culture from the vision-less power seekers who control it. Human culture must evolve to propel humanity into it's possible golden destiny on earth and among the stars. It is time to seriously move toward a culture that is a true meritocracy, a neoConfusian techno-meritocracy where there are government upgrades and not elections. Time to give up the old paradigms which are based on war and campaigns, deceit, and the scum rising to the top. We have the technology and science to design a system that can truly determine the best candidates for positions of collective responsibility, by extreme and unbiased vetting, background checks, psychological tests, judgement evaluations by performance in intelligence tests and performance in virtual scenarios, evaluation of past performance, sophistication of problem solving abilities and other verifiable objective methods rather than the standards now in use, (sex appeal, appearance, psychopathic tendencies, the ability to lie convincingly, what family you were born into, the animal lust to pursue power and how much you promise to steal for or from the one percent.) Also there must be consequences for the dissemination of disinformation and conspiracy fantasies in mass media. I suggest caning and banishment after the confiscation of all wealth.
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  3600.  Harold Hansen  There is a word for people who see everything in dichotomies and us vs them -- stupid
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  3601.  @limitedtime5471  So it seems, and that truly sucks either way.
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  3602. Two men bloating their heads with nothing, and making a living at it: because the audience would rather experience this nothing than their own vacuous inner life: since they can believe that these men's nothings are actually somethings -- if only for a moment.
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  3603.  @Theserjtankianfan  Sure Ernie: debate is like when I say that this video is a conversation about nothing. Then you say, it's not about nothing, it's about Marxism and the archetypal forces that shape our cultures by two highly esteemed pop intellectuals: or something like that. Then I have to decide if: since you did not understand what my initial comment signified, and by your own comment it is obvious that you, like most everyone has only ever experienced the thought-centric-mind and the feelings that give rise to it's conceptions as your identity, if it would not just be a study in futility to explain to you why this conversation is about nothing but hormones and hot air, and why the apparently significant concepts that are discussed are: firstly all second-hand thoughts that have been elucidated many times before and secondly are actually about nothing of any real substance, import, or enlightening potential, and can only lead to more and more impotent and associative wool gathering no matter of what apparent sophistication. I feel that no matter what course I choose, you would never actually be able to see how silly these men and those who take such dialogues seriously actually are. You may now prove my assumptions correct.
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  3604.  @Theserjtankianfan  I rest my case.
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  3605. Those deaths were from covid -- nitwit
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  3606.  @pablopicaro7649  Nope, it was from people staying inside and breathing the same air. The same British agency that reported the deaths also verified it was from covid. The idea that it was from cold is nonsense. Most of England doesn't even get cold enough to kill someone if they have clothes on.
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  3607.  Bigballs fromthefalls  First of all electricity is not a fuel. Secondly electricity can be generated without using fossil fuels. How can anyone be so ignorant that they make a statement as stupid as you have?
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  3608.  @billiamc1969  Totally incorrect. Do some research get some facts and stop spreading disinformation like the jerks at Fox News.
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  3609.  @billiamc1969  Who is the ignorant one? The earth certainly generates electricity although it is not presently utilized by humanity. Go in a field during a thunderstorm and hold up a metal rod to prove this to yourself ignorant one.
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  3610.  @dmelson7502  Oh okay I will take your word for it instead of 99% of the scientist who study this subject -- not.
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  3611.  @dmelson7502  Good judgement on your part.
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  3612.  @dmelson7502  If my opinion doesn't mean sh!t to you why did you even respond? And at such length: twice. I'd say you are swimming in cognitive dissonance. Let me point out to you that I did not propose the exact cause of climate change, only that almost all scientist agree that at present is it caused by human activities. You are the one that in response to Lyra Serpentine told her she had lost her mind because she said the earth generates electricity. I pointed out that you were absolutely incorrect. Absolutely incorrect. Is that how you personally refrain from being an ass? . . . by telling someone they have lost their mind because they wrote something that is true? You can't even write a few paragraphs without contradicting yourself. ROTFLMAO . . . what a stooge. I can only imagine the subjective contortions you are now going through to try to rationalize your own rudeness and dimwittedness.
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  3613.  @edwardmiessner6502  Doubtful. Life and human life will adjust and survive, baring a catastrophic extinction event like a large asteroid strike or massive geological disruption. Although civilization and advanced human culture may take a big hit. It is quite romantic to posit the end of days, religion has been doing it for millennia, fits right in with the human inability to be objectively cognizant of their own personal future nonexistence: the projection of which is the end of days. Also it is not too late to totally reverse climate change, but the longer we wait the longer it will take, without resorting to drastic stratagems. For instance if forests were allowed to regrow in areas where they existed in 1800 and the remaining grasslands were grazed as is natural with herds that concentrate in defense of predation, this alone would end the problem, and switching to green energy sources would just be icing on the cake. Of course a new ice age may arrive no matter what we do. We would survive that also.
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  3614.  @ariesx6515  There really is no need for subsidies outside of the hesitancy of people to switch from ICE because of the inadequate charging infrastructure (not everyone can afford a Tesla, although Tesla will open it's chargers up to their competition). Climate change is the reason for the proposed subsidies, not innovation. The same people who think Trump won the election, think covid vaccine is a scam to take control of your genome, believe that Biden is a socialist, and all kinds of other brain-dead nonsense, hate EVs -- especially Tesla (strange because Tesla is the most American car if judged by American parts and labor). That's just the way it is. They are too dumb to realize how stupid they are and how they have been duped.
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  3615. It's really simple, and really obvious to anyone who has bothered to observe themselves with some degree of objectivity. If your hormonal "brain" doesn't like it, your neural (electrical) brain won't believe it. How do your hormones relate to that statement? Don't like it? Then you won't believe it.
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  3616. 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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  3617. If the conservatives actually ever make abortion illegal, they will lose half their voters because the right to lifers will no longer have any reason to vote for them. That's why they will never really go all the way with it.
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  3618. CNN and MSNBC report: In the race between Bernie and Buttegieg: Pete came in second over-all but Bernie only managed to place next to last.
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  3619. Many years ago I offered to sell a vector diagram of the mechanism of "consciousness" to google. No response.
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  3620. Ukrainian special forces are reported to be hunting down Wagner group mercenaries in Africa.
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  3621. Yep this is the organization that will come back and re-inhabit the earth with sane people after the religious nuts, politicians, and rapacious polluting corporations finish screwing the global pooch. And you know they are gonna wipe themselves off on your curtains after they kill off civilization, by retreating to their islands and bunkers in New Zealand, and Arizona.
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  3622.  @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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  3623.  @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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  3624.  @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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  3625.  @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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  3626.  @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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  3627. lol not even close.
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  3628. Over twenty negative Tesla "news" stories on the yahoo finance Tesla chart page today. Every one of them is faulty or just outright incorrect. This cannot be totally attributed to reporters all having their heads up their asses.
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  3629. Maybe you should recommission your nuclear power-plants until you achieve green energy independence, and let Tesla build some energy efficient Electronic Vehicles in the most advanced manufacturing facility on the planet. Since they did build it with the intention of decoupling much energy usage from the very people that have Germany under its thumb. Duhhh.
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  3630. Makes sense: except maybe for stop and go driving where the difference in mass would make more of a difference in the energy needed to overcome inertia. But for sure, once you get up above forty or so the aero is the main thing, if you are driving distances at highway speeds. Where the mass has a major effect is in handling and performance. Especially where and how the mass occurs, such as sprung and unsprung mass, bias between the wheels etc. But the Teslas are pretty aero, some of the best if not the best coefficients of drag of all cars. Like .21 for the SPlaid. Unless you move into extreme aero like the case of the Aptera, which is much lower than the Plaid. ON the other hand the Apteras motors are in the wheels, and I believe are unsprung weight, so handling would be OK . . . If you drive on a well kept pool table -- because the only shock absorber between the motors and a pothole is the tire -- unless they have come up with an engineering solution that I am unaware of.
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  3631. Nice to see a vid without Jimmy dropping "fucks" every three minutes. Now I can show this to some old voters who stop listening to anyone who engages in profanity. PS the explanation that no words are magic and that "fuck" is just a expletive used to emphasis passion or a point, means nothing to a crowd of voters who know better from their conditoning.
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  3632. 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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  3633. Republican party now dead in 2020, Democrats to follow. Good riddens to bad rubbish.
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  3634. 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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  3635. Surely you jest and just play up the strength of China to garner views. China is doomed. It is not able to replace it's own population due to past idiotic totalitarian policies. The population is old and there is no next generation of workers to replace it. It is a demographic time bomb and will not be around at all in two decades. It's economic policies depend on using abandoned uninhabitable apartments for collateral. It's economy is totally dependent on imports for food and fuel, which can be cut off at any of a dozen choke points. It is dependent on the USA to keep the sea lanes safe, and the USA no longer has any interest in doing so. And worst of all it's dictator is totally out of touch with reality because he has gotten rid of anyone who dares to tell him the truth.
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  3636.  @Ubesoft-vc5te  You chat llm narrative is nonsense, and hallucinatory.
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  3637.  @Ubesoft-vc5te  I am not going to respond to a comment generated by AI. If you want a response go to a different llm and ask for the criticism of your copy and paste reply. If you are using Deep Seek, you should know that it is severely biased and is not even capable of recognizing historical facts that the CCP wants to censor. It's total accuracy is 17%. It will even deny uncensored facts that it gives by accident before it alters them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5FEqeXfyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6YhG-87wfc https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rfAweYTFHA8 And many more. Basically if you believe anything that Deep Seek says about China, you are a fool.
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  3638. I am not going to respond to a comment generated by AI. If you want a response go to a different llm and ask for the criticism of your copy and paste reply. If you are using Deep Seek, you should know that it is severely biased and is not even capable of recognizing historical facts that the CCP wants to censor. It's total accuracy is 17%. It will even deny uncensored facts that it gives by accident before it alters them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5FEqeXfyY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6YhG-87wfc https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rfAweYTFHA8 And many more. Basically if you believe anything that Deep Seek says about China, you are a fool.
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  3639.  @Ubesoft-vc5te  I am not going to respond to a comment generated by AI. If you want a response go to a different llm and ask for the criticism of your copy and paste reply. If you are using Deep Seek, you should know that it is severely biased and is not even capable of recognizing historical facts that the CCP wants to censor. It's total accuracy is 17%. It will even deny uncensored facts that it gives by accident before it alters them. Search: Deep Seek censorship. If you believe anything that Deep Seek says about China, you are a fool. @Ubesoft-vc5te
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  3640.  @elliinc266  The wealthy who received Trumps only permanent tax cut are not hungry Elroy.
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  3641.  @Raineygoodyears  fairy tales made up by rulers hundreds of years after the time it supposedly happened. Get educated.
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  3642. Your narrative is wanting in the face of media organizations who have made it their purpose in life to lie to the public 24/7, and right wing nuts who believe the nonsense made up by the Qanon stoners living in their moms basements. When lie are spread continually and what most people believe has nothing to do with the facts, then censorship is most appropriate unless you aim is the destruction of society.
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  3643. To me it looks like the railroad bridge is still OK, and only the highway section of it collapsed.
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  3644. I am only interested in privately held companies in so far as they impact publically traded companies, that I am interested in. These two companies are private, so what possible benefit is this info to investors? CATLs breakthroughs can be invested in, these guys cannot.
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  3645. Lol, the shorts will be squeezed to death and Tesla will once more get it's groove on. There are millions of investors just praying that Tesla will drop below 8. Around 830 is where you will begin to see massive support. At 750, if we should be so lucky, it will be a Tsunami of buys.
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  3646. Your wishes are worth more to you (as delusions) than to anyone else as the nothing they are. Oh -- would you mind helping me move in August? I have a house full of heavy furniture that needs moving. That would be real, your wishes are nothing.
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  3647. The last man to down size the CIA was Jimmy Carter. The fired agents went to work for the RNC and financially ruined the country. Saudi Arabia just happened to stop oil, Iran just happened to take hostages at the embassy. And the people he had fired just happened to be experts in destabilizing governments and economies. And the the hostages just happened to be released the day Reagan took office, and who was Reagan's vice president? Just happened to be the former head of the CIA.
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  3648. We know that Putin is enormously wealthy. That he uses those close to him to act as shills in legal scams involving dummy corporations and other ways to hide wealth. Elon Musk, who is supposed to be history's wealthiest man, has claimed that Putin is much richer than he is himself, and I believe this to be true. My question is how much of Putin's obscurated personal wealth is invested in US and NATO defense industries? I have heard rumors that it is quite a bit. But would even Putin engage in war to stimulate profits in the defense industries of his enemies to increase his personal wealth?
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  3649. 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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  3650. Makes perfect political sense to not include Tesla in the EV meeting. Tesla is only the number one selling EV. Tesla is only the most American car in production, that is sold in America. Tesla only makes an EV that is a half dozen years ahead of the closest competitor. Tesla is only the company with the only viable charging network. Tesla is only the most ethical company in the entire auto world. Tesla only has, not only the number one selling EV but what will be without a doubt the number one selling car in the world. Tesla is only the actual reason that any other auto company is now going electric. Tesla only builds the safest autos to be in: in a crash. Tesla is so far beyond Biden's concept of what the future will look like, that he doesn't deserve to be in the same reality, let alone sit at the table with Tesla. Tesla is only the car company with the highest degree of owner satisfaction. Tesla only offers a car that is faster than any other production auto no matter the price, and can still can carry four adults and their golf clubs and full overnight gear while doing it. The media and the companies that would have rather had you die in a wreck because it was cheaper, until Nader forced them to adopt seat belts and collapsing steering columns, have been looking for a way to overcome Tesla, because it is so obviously superior in product and production than the dinosaur auto companies -- and it doesn't pay the crime family-like commercial media the advertising vig that the other car companies depend on to sell you dreams. Dreams that will not even approach the reality that is living right now in Tesla products and production methods. Buttegieg drives a Tesla, but with McCluen like rear-view mirror vision, leads us onward into the fog. And it's not even his rear-view mirror that he is looking through. It's the one lent to him by the dino-auto industry. The one that says "LIMITED VISION: objects are more crudely engineered than they appear in the ads". No unions at Tesla, Musk wants the workers to own Tesla. That's how it should be done. And besides that slimy scumbag head of the dept of trans, Pete Butt looks like Mickey Mouse: all he needs are two large white gloves and some ears . . . it's him! . . . it's Mickey Mouse!
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  3651.  @hizzlemobizzle  Almost everything you wrote is incorrect. China has the largest EV market. China does not sell EVs the companies in China sell them. The number one selling car in China is a 4k Wuling Hong Guang MINI EV. It is little more than a golf kart and not in the same league as a Tesla. Tesla has the number two selling EV in China: the model 3. So your facts are wrong again. Your theory that I want Tesla to have a monopoly is ridiculous. There are loads of EV manufacturers -- Tesla is simply a decade ahead of all of them, because Tesla put in the real work and research. It is actually amazing how much misinformation you manged to pack into your comment. Tesla has stated that it is going to open up it's charging network to all EVs, so there goes another one of your mistakes. A simple attachment to the charging cable will make this possible. Tesla has opened up all of its patents for other car manufacturers to use, there goes your theory that it is just another greedy corporation. You could not be more wrong about everything you stated as fact. Either you are unable to discriminate between facts and disinformation or you are purposely spreading nonsense. I can document everything I wrote, your own sources are dubious, if you have any. Oh, and Japan does not claim to have a solid state battery, but Toyota claims to be working on one. It also claims to have a viable hydrogen system -- not. Tesla is way ahead of everyone in the battery arena, and when they do catch up, well they won't catch up because Tesla dose not stand still. Also your remarks about billionaire space tourists do not apply to SpaceX. Elon is so far beyond your petty remarks that to anyone who knows anything about the situation you sound like an envious critter indeed.
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  3652.  @adropofgoldensun27  The fact that you think that a hybrid or a plug-in hybrid is comparable to a Tesla just confirms that you actually have no idea what you are writing about. The Prius had absolutely noting to do or contribute to the development of a viable EV. You are just spouting rhetoric, playing to the know-nothings.
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  3653.  @idiotidiot5821  Got to agree, I do get into it a bit too much.
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  3654.  @kathryncasey4114  You mentioned Musk, I didn't, I spoke about Tesla: two distinct things. You really come off sounding quite childish. It's not about Elon, other than he is a fine engineer running a fine company, that's it.
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  3655.  @kathryncasey4114  So it took you one minute to resort to sophomoric nonsense. You can rest assured that YOU are not special, your juvenile attitude can be found on any jr high playground among catty spoiled little Karins who are so full of envy that they have no choice but to play their games of limbic one-upmanship. Grow up.
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  3656.  @adropofgoldensun27  The first electric car was produced in the USA in 1890. The idea for an electric car did not come from the Prius. Arguably the first modern fully EV produced by a major auto company was the EV1 by GM a year before the Prius. A hybrid is much more complicated than a ICE vehicle. An EV is much less complicated than an ICE vehicle. Other than the fact that they both have batteries and an electric motor, they have little in common, especially the main considerations mentioned above.
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  3657.  @kathryncasey4114  You should probably get a brain scan, you have a tenuous association with reality outside of your fantastic delusions.
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  3658.  @adropofgoldensun27  I used my example because they actually produced working EVs that were sold to the public. People had no choice but to buy a Prius if they wanted to somewhat reduce their environmental impact. It was either Prius or public trans or a bicycle. There was no viable charging system for EVs. Tesla has built such a system, and is enlarging it on a daily bases, and it will be made available to all EVs of all brands. The GM EV1 was apparently much loved by those who had one, but was very limited in many ways. Then of course GM collected them all up and crushed them. But the fact remains that a hybrid is more complected than an ICE vehicle while an EV is far less complicated than either. So in that sense, in an engineering sense, they are quite divergent.
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  3659. This is the answer, M1156 Precision Guidance Kit used on XM1113 rocket-assisted projectile -- but the USA will have to provide the sighting systems for the 777 and other 155mm guns in Ukraine to use them, which have been noticeably absent in photos of the pieces given to Ukraine -- security issue or monumental FUBAR -- that's for those in the know to know. They work with the German self propelled guns too. The XM1113 RAP uses rocket technology to deliver greater thrust to the round, when compared to its predecessor, the legacy M549A1. This will enable current U.S. Field Artillery 155mm Systems to fire the XM1113 RAP to a range of 40 kilometers, a 30% increase from the M549A1. When fired from the planned future Extended Range Artillery Cannon (ERCA), the XM1113 will achieve ranges out to 70 kilometers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1156_Precision_Guidance_Kit
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  3660. Or until you go broke and crazy from frustration and abuse.
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  3661.  @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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  3662.  @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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  3663.  @Skunk106  They are hardly hard to recycle.
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  3664. You are living in a neolib bubble. Hillary is the most despised woman in the country if not the world.
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  3665. I finally listened to this on a drive a day after making several comments. It was more or less what one expected, well less to be honest. It would be an easy and useless matter to find fault with every comment it contained. Despite this I will offer one "amendment" to a few of the initial statements. In particular about the supposed benefit or sentimental inner psychodrama in asking oneself what is often taken for a profound question: "Who am I?" If you are one of the few who are actually attempting to transform the dimension of your apperceptive awareness the question "Who am I?" will get you nowhere real only further into the high security area of the associative prison you are already in. For the few with such an aim this is a wrong question. It is the equivalent of asking the color of the elephant in your dresser drawer and having to determine this without looking in the drawer but perhaps by asking Chat GTP. In other words not only is it useless but it is meaningless as regards your aim. A certain modification of this question, if taken to "heart" can provide a benefit with regard to the direction you are drawn to. That modification can be approximated by the words "What is "I" ?" and the unnatural arousal of the prowess to observe you subjective process, including this self-reflective observation as objectively as you are able. When referring to human capabilities of being aware above the level of the automatic thought-centric associative mind, all word are misleading and in a very basic manner erroneous. This is not a concept it is an action described in concepts, the proof is in the doing: in the activity. Total objectivity IN THE MOMENT, of ones subjective process (appercreption) IS "cosmic consciousness". More accurately: is to be consciously aware on a cosmic level. Simple as that, and almost any one in a hundred thousand people drawn to such conscious evolution can do it. And most of the rest really don't want to, no matter what their lips (inner or outer) confess.
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  3666.  @Anthony__420  Gordon just advises to sell everything he comments on, because when he says buy, he is almost always wrong. In Tesla's case he is monumentally wrong.
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  3667.  @BlazeHT  Gifted? Really? You mean the guns they tried to use in a sting operation against the American citizens who were gun running into Mexico that went south? You have actual documentary evidence of the serial numbers of the guns and somehow got hold of them to check it out? Or you are just repeating something because you would like it to be true. I guess if your aim is to hate the USA you will find reasons to do it even where there aren't any. Disinformation is rampant, DN has become are real nest of anti-American gossip mongers and their victims. Say anything that is against the USA and a bunch of people here will believe it. Haters gotta hate, as they say. But I am totally ready to check out your sources of information and determine if they are hopelessly spun or authentic. Please list them below.
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  3668.  @donHooligan  Obviously you labor under the delusion that a rhetorical question cannot also be a stupid comment.
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  3669.  @donHooligan  lol China did great work in Tibet too, if you disregard the Tibetans. In case you don't get it, outside of a few anomalous examples, all governments suck. The more power they have the more they tend to suck. Why? because humans everywhere cannot be trusted with power. Is the average American better somehow morally than the average Russian, or Chinese citizen or inhabitant of the DRC -- no they are all basically the same, the same crooks, the same moral people, the same vices and weaknesses, the same hopes for a better life for themselves and their families. Do very rich people suck, many do, some don't, same as the guys at your corner taproom, but with more intense repercussions. Does democracy exist anywhere -- nope, not outside of a few areas in Switzerland. Do those with advantages due to wealth or power take advantage of their advantages, sure, but it's easy to believe you would be different yourself without really having that possibility.
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  3670.  @BlazeHT  First of all I am not in the least a right winger, I was imprisoned for antiwar political action in the sixties and have never voted for a republican or any democrat other than Biden and I hate Biden but Trump made me sick on a daily basis. I supported Bernie with both time and quite a bit of money. Need I add, "You presumptious jerk?" Second of all, it was exactly what I said: a sting operation that went wrong. They thought they could trace strawman purchases from Arizona gun dealers to the drug cartels, but they were unable to for several reasons, some of them having to do with court decisions. There were arrests of the Americans who purchased the guns but they were unable to trace the flow of guns to higher level drug lords, like they expected to. This was hardly what it was presented as in these comments. The ATF did not purchase the guns and donate them to the cartels, they simply were unable to follow the seemingly legal purchases that were actually illegal straw purchases. To allow a minor crime like a straw purchase to proceed in order to bust a bigger criminal is a typical law enforcement tactic. It is funny though how people like you think that I am a right winger because I see through the narrative that typical so-called progressives present, on the other hand real right-wing nuts think I am a communist revolutionary because I call them on their torrential confabulation of idiotic narratives. Anyone who steps outside of the inane political duality of left and right and calls them as they see them experiences this completely automatic reaction from those who have been swallowed whole by a particular viewpoint.
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  3671.  @donHooligan  How quaint. . . . referring to the ego statement here. You just don't see many serious attempts at ego-shaming these days. But when you don't have anything real to say, whadda ya gonna do?
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  3672. The owl is the mascot of Robert Mercer. The money and organization behind the Trump election. His yacht is named The Sea Owl https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=YsAUUPSI&id=2F1DB8959D671CF5CCA4540AF7FBAD8A42ABB3E0&thid=OIP.YsAUUPSIxu_ayKePFVtM-gHaC6&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.superyachtfan.com%2fwpimages%2fwp49b048fa_05_1a.jpg&exph=382&expw=970&q=robert+mercer%27s+yacht&simid=608041560901158903&ck=3F293F2DBCE970E40472AD3F7D47D67C&selectedIndex=0&ajaxhist=0
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  3673. Waste of a magnificent venue.
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  3674.  @PureVikingPowers  Sounds like bull and click bait but I will check it out,.
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  3675.  @MrCastodian  Recent satellite observations found previously unknown intercontinental missile sites in China. Up till then, wargamers assume in a nuclear exchange 200 American devices would strike Chinese cities and 80 Chinese devices would strike American cities. Pretty much not gonna happen.
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  3676. Yep, once again the kleptocrats have given Americans the choice between living up to their necks in shit with Trump or living up to their necks in piss with Biden.
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  3677. Joe I get paid to lie by the meat industry Rogan
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  3678. Females brains are not fully developed at the age of 19, thus the often stupid behavior. Males have their own problems, mostly born of testosterone and the drive to dominate.
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  3679. It is obvious why our institutions do not trust the public: the power-elite who control the institutions are not trustworthy. All too simple: all too true.
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  3680. I gotta tell you Kile: when you do the silent elipse thing with your eyes it always cracks me up. Mainly because that is exactly how almost everything that corporate new reports and the republican believers say, make me feel. It is comi-tragic, but come on, it's also fucken hilarious. A true confederacy of dunces.
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  3681. Tesla is the most American car with the most American parts and workers.
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  3682. We are just now, at half of Tesla's highest value. Seems that success in every aspect of manufacturing and profitability equals failure in the market -- short term anyhow. While dreams with no reality behind them seems to work well in the market. We will all look back at this when the first Teslabot factory maned by Teslabots starts spewing Teslabots to make up for the lack of population growth with whimsical disbelief. Prepare for something you would not believe if you even saw it happening.
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  3683. China will probably break up into warring states in the next decade. They are doomed by their own one child and covid policies.
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  3684.  @kohtime That is correct. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Me2G6FJZMI
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  3685.  @bobstrayer9004  That was an announcement.
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  3686. Russia will never be able to pay the bill it is running up. The world will have to foreclose, and auction off the assets.
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  3687. 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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  3688.  @reforest4fertility  Why do you think that?
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  3689.  @reforest4fertility  I think you are confusing the Mujahideen with the Taliban. The Mujahideen began in an uprising in 1979 by Afghans against the USSR and the puppet communist government in Afghanistan. The Mujahideen fought a long costly war against the Red Army, which suffered many losses and started withdrawing from the country in 1988, after which the war against the existing regime continued. The loosely aligned Mujahideen took Kabul in 1992 following the collapse of the Moscow-backed government. However their new government was quickly fractured by rival factions, becoming dysfunctional, which escalated into another civil war from which the Taliban formed. So the Taliban did not even exist in the 80's. Though it may be true that some of the Mujahideen later became Taliban. The Mujahideen were supported a bit by the USA, and other nations and even private donors. The Taliban was not supported by the USA. The USSR and their puppet communist government in Afghanistan was firmly entrenched before the Mujahideen let alone the Taliban even came into existence, so no the USA did not use the Taliban to draw Russia into a war in Afghanistan. The civil war against the communist government and the occupation by the USSR was by the Mujahideen who were mostly native Afghans trained in Pakistan, but also included Islamic fighters from other countries that joined voluntarily. The USA eventually supported the Mujahideen with some shoulder launched ground to air missiles. But the uprising against the government and the USSR occupation was well underway before the USA finally sent any support.
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  3690. 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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  3691. I agree. I donate to law firms that fight for native rights. I have worked at reservations to help out, but when I see the lies here, that their spokes persons spout about history, I find it insulting. I know too much real history to believe the line of bullshit spouted here about the first nations historic roles as a people. And the proof of it is: Democracy Now will not even allow an accurate recounting of the true nature of either the precolumbian inhabitants of the Americas or about what actually took place between the invaders and the inhabitants of the Americas. They act just like intolerant authoritarian right wing nuts and will not even brook any discussion of it. They just delete it when a false narrative by one of their pet native spokes-persons are corrected, by referencing historic facts. Because of this, even though I am sympatico with their goals, I have lost all respect for this organization as a source of unbiased truth.
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  3692.  @Em-sf6sr  Every time I reference the actual history of the collision of collision of these two collections of cultures it is deleted by DN. So that is why you can't see it. I recommend reading some actual history. Empire of the Summer Moon is both entertaining and illuminating.
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  3693.  @rosshoyt2030  Well that would be no problem IF Democracy Now stopped deleting my posts about what you ask. I guess referring to actual history is now considered hate speech or something by the numbskull who takes it upon themselves to censor all such comments.
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  3694.  @Em-sf6sr  Well my response to your question was deleted by Democracy Now. So if you want the truth about the history of the First Nations you will have to find it for yourself.
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  3695. There isn't. They just cannot stand anything that contradicts their contorted and inaccurate narrative. I just recommended that book to you, as a peek into the actual history as opposed to the fantasy that is believed by these various spokes people for the first American nations. This woman whom is speaking references this history as a series of massacres. I merely pointed out that although this is correct, most of the massacres were unbelievably brutal massacres of European families. The massacres of native villages that occurred were a result of this propensity of the war bands to murder civilians in retribution for losses against and general inability to confront the US armed forces. It's not hard to find if you can distinguish between historic facts and the disinformation found at DN. Basically the First Nations are now presented as peace loving environmentalists. Which may be true for some of them now, but when you project that back into history it is a lie. They had no environmental awareness and one of the great extinction events followed the progress of the Asian invasive species of humans as they settled in the Americas. They were brutal to each other, practiced torture and many of them also practiced cannibalism routinely and produced some of the most insane and hideous cultures ever know to man, that were in continual hyper savage warfare among themselves, without developing any of the benefits of civilization such as writing and the wheel -- or much of anything else. I had a post deleted eight times yesterday that did not even detail most of these facts except for the note on the massacres and it was only a recounting of the actual facts. But what is pushed as fact here on DN is the idea that all the evils that befell the First Nations was the doing of white Europeans. This was a stone age culture, do you really think that after the Americas was discovered by the rest of the world that it would be left alone by nations with a higher level of technology and culture? That has never happened anywhere on earth, and the same thing that happened to the native Americans happened to every group of primitives that came in contact with something like Rome or the Assyrian Empire. That's human life. The horse tribes of Europe are also gone, you probably never even heard of them. The problem is that losers never forget, and they romanticize about a golden past that never existed. Take the confederate south as a prime example.
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  3696. Bigga Booma
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  3697. Well this could be the reason that there are no aliens visiting earth. They evolve to the point where they develop this kind of weapon then self-destruct.
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  3698. That is exactly the reason I never became interested in Twitter.
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  3699. All this happened because Robert Mercer doesn't want to pay taxes.
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  3700. Yes, and the science says that EVs are far less harmful over their life of use than an ICE car. It has been proven time and time again. You need to get you head out of computer games and look it up big boss.
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  3701.  @Roguesta54  No doubt many of the cops in America will not tolerate any disrespect, and some of them are just dying for an excuse to shoot someone, but just with my knowledge of the various countries of the world, I would say that your sample is very constricted. Try the cops in Burma, or China, or Afghanistan, or Russia, North Korea, Turkey, Belarus, Mexico, Columbia, etc. At least the cops in the US are usually not the same people as the criminals, usually. Most of them like to push people around and don't like real work but those are the people the justices love because they pull that money into the system. It's a game to them, and people are just pieces in the game. Also the fact that there are more guns owned by private citizens in the US than there are people, and cops do get shot here pretty regularly. Though it is far more dangerous to deliver for Amazon or be a roofer than to be a cop. And the roofers I know don't act like hysterical teenagers to be safer.
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  3702. @azealiabank You should give up the milk, it is actually bad for you and full of pus.
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  3703. State by state
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  3704. All things green will not fail in Germany. EVs will do fine, as will battery recyclijng, and battery manufacturing.
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  3705.  @daniellarson3068  Tesla released its repair manuals for free.
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  3706. You are too easily amused.
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  3707. The last statement: "They fucked around. And now they are gonna find out. . . . . . . Just in case you care.
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  3708. Don't know where you live but I have never heard of a ticket for acceleration, and I doubt any such ticket would hold up in court if a cop was stupid enough to write it up. How the hell would they measure your acceleration in the first place?
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  3709.  @gammaraygem  Yep Europe does have some good times, between the wars of utter devastation. Poor deluded Americans. Well at least they served to keep you from having to learn Russian. If you knew anything about demographics you would understand that the USA, Canada, and Mexico have a bright future. Europe, not so much. Russia last gasp. China gone in twenty years.
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  3710. "Whole nine yards": the amount of cloth it took to tailor a gentleman's suit complete with all the accoutrements of formal day dress. Alternately the number of cubic yard the standard cement truck can hold. But then the fact is that it was originally the whole six yards and was used before the invention of the machine gun. In other words -- nobody knows.
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  3711. Trumps supporters being mostly lower class and upper class and not much of an in-between illustrates the blinding flash of the obvious that Trump supporters are either multimillionares . . . or fools. Not because to be poor, is to be a fool, but of course (I feel the need to spell this out here because you can never underestimate the comprehension of random people, but I am not implying an assumption that you personally need it spelled out) because to be poor and a Trump supporter is to be a fool, if you consider people who harm themselves to be foolish. On the other hand, IF the world was actually structured and worked in the manner that most Trump supporters of low income believe it does, then their Trump support would make perfect sense. We are talking vectors here, the specifics are irrelevant. In fact, one objective look at the so-called political systems, and their underpinning, that populate our planet should inform the observer that what is happening is just window dressing on barbarism, it's just a theater of the mind, a velvet glove on an iron fist. I don't know of any system of government or rule that rises above the idiotic, or so it would seem, if the object of the system is to optimize, as much as is possible, all honorable aspects of human existence, and to curtail those commonly deemed as undesirable, the present systems of governance found on earth are archaic trash: just an excuse for the same old kleptocratic autocompulsive psychopaths, to further inflate their already vein-glorious miniminds in the vacuous reflections of the sycophants that surround and enable their insanity because of their own highly deviated and corrupted survival impulse. They wish they were a real boy, but despite the world of suffering they create by trying to fill their truly vacuous lives with babbles of all types, real life eludes them, and always will. Even ole' Socrates knew that a person that seeks power should never be trusted with it. Human political culture is a joke. An eighth grade class could come up with a better system than the battered whore the banksters and one percent -- have afforded the world. It's a joke, a sin, and a wasted opportunity to evolve our culture into one that would nurture the greatness that humanity could be. But we ain't great, and we never have been, though for sure, an individual here and there, now and then has been -- great that is. Though to tell you the truth Alexander wasn't, and neither was his teacher Aristotle. Two utter failures that the world has adored for over two millennia. So wad ya gonna due -- aye?
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  3712. Tesla. . . You forgot about Tesla, therefore leaving out the most important variable in this scenario. In this you are no different than those whose minds are corralled by the ruling power-elite. The most important factor is Tesla, because Tesla is demonstrating how to become wealthy by reducing the worlds green house gases. Your deconstruction of the situation is therefore irreconcilably flawed.
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  3713. 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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  3714. So part of Tesla's buisness model is to screw the environment. That comment is so stupid it is almost unbelievable that someone could be so out of touch with the reality of Tesla that they could make it.
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  3715. 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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  3716. "The ground" is in space.
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  3717. Talk about projecting from the specific to the general. . . .
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  3718. The power elite want the combat arm of their criminal enterprise to feel above the law so that they will not balk when given clearly illegal and immoral directions against other citizens.
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  3719. It is kind of amazing that this woman does not seem to know that she is one of the most, if not the most, despised public figures in the country. I have no intention of watching her doc or her podcast but I can't help but be curious if they will bring up the matter that the first political campaign she was a part of was Barry Goldwater's. In case you don't know: he was a right-wing hawk who propose he use of atomic weapons in Vietnam.
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  3720. Maybe everyone's face should be on file, or everyone should have a chip in their skull.
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  3721. This is ridiculous, the NSA has systems that could have identified every person at that act of vandalism, where they came from and where they went after the act, by just keeping a plane in the air over the capital. Why are they using stone age methods?
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  3722. How many HIMARS will the USA give to Ukranine? IMH non grand opinion it would have been much more effective to provide existing 155m pieces that are already in theater with the M1156 Precision Guidance Kit used on XM1113 or some other rocket-assisted projectile -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1156_Precision_Guidance_Kit -- but the USA will have to provide the sighting systems for the 777 and other 155mm guns in Ukraine to use them, which have been seemingly absent going by photos of the pieces given to Ukraine. These screw in smart weapon conversion kits also work with the German self propelled guns. This would enable 155mm Systems that are already being used in Ukraine, to fire to a range of 40 kilometers with about 10 m accuracy. Also allow safer close infantry support as the shells will defuse themselves in flight if they are going to land too far from the designated target and too close to friendly bodies.
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  3723. Not the model 2: the model T, where the T is the Tesla moniker and not a T.
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  3724.  @CrosbyStill  Death sentence for possession of a firearm . . . So the tyrants that rule you have no fear of the populace. You can keep it.
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  3725. What evidence do you even have that Tesla has abandoned it's model 2? It's like a conflict that you made up. Elon can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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  3726. Your car insurance will be less if you car is used in FSD mode because of the better safety. Which has already been proven by the insurance companies. Tesla also sell insurance so . . . If it crashes your insurance company is liable -- I'm sure you could have figured that out is you took a breath. People will come to realize that EVs require little maintenance, as for the depreciation, it will be more than covered by your earnings, and you will be able to deduct depreciation form your taxes since it will be a business. The cars will probably be cleaned up by robots before they are returned to you. People who have been abusive to your property will have to pay for any damages they do, which will all be recorded by internal cameras and stored by Tesla. Maintenance cost will still be far less than your typical ICE car: no oil changes, no new breaks needed, no tuneups or spark plugs, basically no maintenance other than tires. If you had bothered to even learn a little about this whole thing, you wouldn't be so in the dark with such childish questions.
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  3727. It's already been approved in many major areas einsten. Teslas driven with FSD engaged are exponentially safer than cars driven in the old way. That is a fact look it up.
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  3728. BYD has yet to make a profit on an EV without gov subs. And their quality sucks out loud.
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  3729.  @stacygagnon6280  Got a laugh out of that. But if that wasn't a joke, it's your brain that is scary.
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  3730. It's not just the radical right that is systemically insane regarding climate change. The prime example is how the nitwit left is treating Tesla. All these protests and thousands of people have done nothing to address the problem compared to Tesla. They are all "bla bla bla" and Tesla actually walks the walk, and what does it get? Back of the line and not even recognized for its enormous and continuing contributions to greenhouse gas abatement. Foaming at the mouth woke puddin' heads who hate Tesla because Musk is rich and showing a way to a golden future for mankind. Ludites who understand nothing of Tesla's breakthroughs and continuing campaign to bring hope of a future worthy of humanity. The appointment of Tesla haters like Cummings to positions that control the industry. Just envious small minds who think that marching in favor of political solutions is an effective action: political solutions that will never take place because the people who created the problem are in control of establishing the perception of a working solution. We have been marching for environmental protection since the sixties and the result is NOTHING. A president who sucks up to unions shops no matter how hopelessly behind the tech that Tesla has developed, who supports FORD (who manufactures their EVs in Mexico (thus the recent modification to the rebates that disregards where they are built, instead of Tesla, which builds cars with the most American parts and labor of ALL vehicles, and a gov. who fails to even recognize the real progress they have made. This last election is the first and last time I vote for a lesser of two evils, the democrats and republicans are both corrupt beyond reform, and need to put a gun in their collective mouths and pull the trigger so the rest of us can return to sanity. The only real hope we have is if people like Musk demonstrate, and he has been demonstrating like hell, just how to make money cleaning up the mess that the petro economy has created. Elon Musk is now, since yesterday, the richest man in history, and he did it working for the good of the environment and the hope of a golden future for mankind and still the left and right imbeciles bitch about him and do everything they can politically to subvert his efforts. Wake the fu@k up.
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  3731. The Bern Abides. . .
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  3732.  @gomertube  lol -- live under a rock do you?
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  3733. Put Elons money where your mouth is. Please supply a reference for your statement about Elon financing DeSantis. . . . . . . . . .?
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  3734. Still no mention of he Ukrainian Genocide Famine (Holodomor), which was the most massive genocide of all human history, more murders than the Nazi halocast though without the same level of public awareness in the West. A genocide that was perpetrated against the Ukranian people by the Russians. One in every four Ukrainians was murdered by the USSR. Think maybe it deserves a mention?
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  3735. The obvious answer is full electric with removable batteries. You stop for gas we stop for a battery exchange. You drive a sissy whinny ICE -- you lose.
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  3736. Today's new form of ignorance is not a lack of factual info, it is immunity to facts. Due to the faulty way the total of the greenhouse gases generated by animal ag was calculated, it is now found that the situation is even worse than it was presumed. 87% of green house gases are generated by animal ag. If you buy, consume, or produce the products of animal agriculture, quite simply, you have no meaningful stance against climate change -- you are doing the opposite of helping. The fact that animal ag is overwhelmingly responsible for climate change makes all the crying about car and jet emissions, and dirty electricity production -- important -- but diversionary. 87% of green house gases are generated by animal ag. Animal Ag is the elephant shi$$ing in the room. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSc_51xR8sQ
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  3737.  @protagonist9716  Here is an up to date criticism of the CURRENT model Y by an expert in fit and finish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QFSTnNS7Vw&list=TLPQMjUwMjIwMjNW0ZD7GZqHWQ&index=7 Conclusion: current model Y fit and finish is the equal of any traditional OEM and better than most. Memes die hard, especially when perpetuated by billion dollar budgets.
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  3738. News flash:  CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report: In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Just when you thought the corporate approved news couldn't insult the intelligence of the public any more than it already had by refusing to investigate the cheating and dismissing Bernie in every way possible, the real investigators uncover the new axis of evil  Facebook -- CNN -- Buttigieg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfQ7Zo6m9yg
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  3739. The biggest single factor in climate change is the generation of greenhouse gases. Far more greenhouse gases are produced by animal agriculture than any other source (87% by animal ag as compared to 13% by all other sources, cars, planes, electric plants, etc, combined) The most important thing you can do as an individual to address climate change is to stop buying the products of animal agriculture, such as meat, dairy products, leather goods, and furs. If enough people do this, we will survive, if not, your grandchildren will be forced to determine whether to eat their babies to survive a few more weeks when crops fail globally. Your choice, indulge your blind instinctive desires and rationalize them with self-centered mindless opinions, or leave future generations an earth worth living on. Or you can just go on fruitlessly bitching about the injustice of things like Bezo's money and ignore the situation until it is beyond too late. My personal bet is that the vast majority of you, even if convinced of the reality of the global climate situation will go on with your rapacious lifestyles unabated. Even so, those are the facts. Now, are you a rational moral being, or a mad machine that really has no control over yourself?
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  3740. A decade later than when? After WW2 there were no real quality Japanese goods sold in America, and those that were, were inferior, except for possibly porcelain and certain art objects. I was around and didn't see any. First Japanese small motorcycles then eventually cars appeared in the mid to late sixties. Most WW2 vets who fought in the pacific never bought Japanese cars. My father and all of his bros who fought in the south pacific campaign never knowingly bought anything Japanese for their entire lifetime.
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  3741.  @igorpan3413  Brainwashed Russian troll.
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  3742. More Russians should eat more sugar. Put it in everything, drink coke, yum. It's good for you. Eat more sugar.
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  3743. I really hope that Tesla stock tanks in 22. So that I can buy a lot more of it. All this bull means nothing to me. I don't like Elon and I don't hate him. His personality and history are irrelevant to me. His bottom line is not. But I always have this question for Musk haters, and all those who decry him as a conman. "What have you done in life?" Most of them are envious wannabes who do nothing but bitch.
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  3744. Don' t use that word even if it's true because I think other people don't know what it means. What a dunce.
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  3745. Fast in a straight line is one thing, but Tesla needs an affordable roadster that is a fancar like the MacMurty. Instead of floating off the road it should be sucked down onto the road for handling.
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  3746.  Linux user  And my hypocrisy was that I told you that Elon loved you. Right? I thought you were intelligent for a second or two their but I was wrong.
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  3747. These are the most important videos you will see this week. Trump will not concede and here is why: he has NO honor and he can still win. Here is how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w The greater question is why anyone who is against the kleptocracy that rules the USA would celebrate. The real Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSk99eE3Kg
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  3748. How about: because cancer doesn't show up in a few days. Drink/eat/breath/in some cases touch, carcinogens now, pay later. Actually the argument put forth by Fox is beyond idiotic and is really just disinformation they spew to server their robber baron masters.
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  3749.  @thedavischanger  Are you daft? There are already many people suffering because of this. For instance, all the aid that disabled people get with their rent has ended. That means that disabled people will be vulnerable to action from their landlords. Their landlords will be unable to met mortgage payments, and on and on. This is nothing but an end-run buy a few billionaires who don't want to pay taxes. This is Robert Mercer and the Koch bros wet dream. And unless you yourself are a millionaire you may be plural but your brain cell sure isn't
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  3750. 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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  3751. How could Iran capture an advanced US drone? It must of had some kind of fail-safe self destruct capability. That would be a good use of lasers: to initiate a self-destruct routine that can not be disrupted because it is not dependent on a system in the drone. Maybe it could ignite thermite beacon targets in the drones most secret technologies.
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  3752. This is laughable: Russia has carried out three major genocides against the populations of this region. That is the main reason there are so many Russians in Ukraine, because they killed millions and sent in Russians to replace them. First the Cessarian genocide that killed more than a million civilians and caused the largest forced migration in history up to that point as people attempted to flee the wholesale murder of every non Russian, and from which the natives peoples of that area have yet to recover or return. Next was the genocide carried out by Stalin: the Holodomor which was the most massive genocide in all of history and murdered in excess of eight million Ukranians in 1932. See the book Bloodlands by historian Timothy Snyder. A genocide famous for acts of inhumanity like throwing living children into mass graves while still alive and starved to the point of helplessness: an almost unbearable account of what the Russians did there. And the third and present genocide, which this time is not going so well for the Russians. Oh -- and a very hearty FY and horse you rode in on.
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  3753. You are wrong: it doesn't even make it into the top ten of US exports by value.
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  3754.  @warrendourond7236  You are correct arms exports were 175 billion last year but for some reason do not appear on this list. America's Top 10 Exports Spacecraft and aircraft – $131 billion. ... Cars – $127 billion. ... Petroleum – $106 billion. ... Medical equipment – $83 billion. ... Plastics – $60 billion. ... Gems, precious metals, and coins – $58 billion. ... Pharmaceuticals – $47 billion. ... Organic chemicals – $39 billion
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  3755. Consciousness is not a problem where I come from. In fact it's not even a thing: unless you are using the original archaic Frisian meaning of the word. And even then "conscious awareness" would be far more accurate, and "apperceptively aware" even more so, since there is about as much consciousness as there is runningness (in a runner who is standing still). Or as Carlos Dwa said in The Unwritten Book: Xellex . . . "The inherent deception in all conceptions of consciousness can be traced to the suffix "ness". This is sometimes referred to as the "ness" lock monster." . . . . . .
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  3756. The law is often not impartial of just.
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  3757.  @Cbd_7ohm  Actually opium is legal for sale with a script. I use to work for one of the one percent in a trusted capacity. She had a scripts for both opium in the form of paregoric and cocaine as nasal drops, and she had empty bottles of the stuff all over her house. Also opium is legal and for sale without a script in the USA if you have the brains to figure out how.
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  3758. I'll save you the time of watching this, I didn't and don't need to. If you think your brain is the so-called conscious associative mind. It is possible to upload it, because what you think of as you, or "I" is completely mechanical. I know you cannot see this, your not supposed to be able to for your own good (in most cases). Your subjective experience is not a truly conscious experience. Your subjective experience is determined not by what you consider to be you, or your consciousness (consciousness is an illusion just as runningness would be an illusion for a runner who is sitting) but by the metabolic substrate in which your subjective experience takes place. This has been demonstrated that "consciousness" is the last to know about events that your unconscious aspects have already reacted to. So yes the mechanical illusion you refer to as the mind could be simulated and uploaded, but it would be a shadow of what a person really is, a shadow of a shadow really, and without the anchoring in reality provided by a limbic system and other essential aspects of your animal nature it would be quite insane in short order. Well actually it would not even be authentically insane, just an approximation of a mechanism that is not conscious as you believe it to be because your are entirely identified with it, but without the belief in its indispensable illusion of identity. Sorry if that doesn't make sense to you. If it doesn't it is because you are entirely identified with the quite mechanical dynamics of the thought-centric-mind and have never see it's/your true nature.
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  3759.  @andders2477  I doubt that very much.
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  3760. You have to really be an idiot to think that Biden is ahead of Bernie. Despite the lies and fake polls pushed by the corporate media Sanders is the most popular politician in the world. Bernie has no corporate or billionaire donors and for every donor Biden has Bernie has four. Bernie would have stomped all over trump if he hadn't been cheated in the last democratic primary and he will show trump for the conman and fool he is, if the DNC can be stopped from cheating him again. This report is just more corporate media lies.
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  3761.  @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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  3762. A partnership by two countries on the verge of demographic collapse. A lot of hot air to keep the proles from realizing their very precarious situation. Hope you have a decade worth of popcorn ready.
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  3763.  @locust3160  Nope, as Andrew states below "In terms of demographic collapse, China has them all beat" Even Russia, even Italy. Get some facts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBMSZ7v3KxQ
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  3764.  @benjaminsmith2287  If you think that Mercedes and BMW, and even Porsche is making great EVs you really have no idea what you are talking about. They make great commercials and that is about it. What you don't seem to understand at all is that Tesla is innovating at a rate far exceeding the traditional OEMs. Tesla is now ten years ahead of all of them. But in ten years they won't be caught up, in ten years Tesla will be fifty years ahead of them. FRANKFURT -- Tesla was the biggest winner in Germany last month as electric cars continued to gain market share in Europe's largest vehicle market. Tesla's new-car sales grew 234 percent as the wider German market plunged 32 percent to 198,258 registrations, according to data from the KBA motor authority.
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  3765. News flash: CNN, MSNBC, and the usual suspects report:. . . In the primary race between Sanders and Buttigieg, Pete came in second over all, while Sanders came in next to last. Democracy and the so called representative democracy, democratic republic or constitutional republic are very different things. They are forms of democracy. In most cases minus the democracy part. When people blithely state that we live in a democracy it is incorrect and misleading, like most of the paradigms that the public is continually bombarded with via the corporate news. A republic is just a way for the plutocrats to stay in power and still have people think they are in a participatory democracy. The only democracy in US government is is that of congress, and they are 98% owned by the power-elite that decide who will run and fund their reelection campaigns with the legalized bribes of their campaign contributions. There is representation, but not for you and me. We live in a farce. Are you not paying attention? Do you think that this cheating is something new? Your "representatives" are not there to represent you, they are there for the most part to make sure that the voices of the people never get heard, and if they get heard to never be acted upon. Or if they are once in a blue moon forced by popular uprising to act for the people, soon as the masses disperse they will dismember the body that threatened their power one discontent at a time, jailed, disappeared, or simply smeared and ignored by the corporate media. Have you not been present? Look around. . . . Real democracy, true democracy exists nowhere on earth other than present day Switzerland and never has (that I am aware of). Representative democracy is a convoluted fraudulent conception. Democracy is something that we are continually told we have, which we do not. We have democracy in the same sense that the slaves, women, citizens without land, and foreigners had a democracy in the golden age of Athens. Only they knew that they did not have a vote or any real participation in the government. Most Americans do not know that. It should be obvious to anybody with the slightest ability to perceive what is actually going on that this is a conceptual illusion that is used to mislead and quell the disenfranchised mob. Bring on the super-delegates, the Iowa national delegate formula, the electoral collage, the PACz and Citizens United -- a democracy would not abide these contaminants, or entertain their adoption for even a moment. A democracy and the state we live in are two very different things. In a democracy the one with the most votes is not the loser like in the USA. The courts have decided that even determination of who will be the candidates, such as occurs in the legendary smoke filled rooms of the DNC and RNC has no legal obligation to be fair or democratic in our two party system. . . . ??????? We live in a kleptocracy with a democratic shroud over it, and most people, like almost all people, do not understand how their rights and money are being stolen from them by corporate pilferage and plunder. In fact our present government is functionally a cryptofascist kleptocracy in which all real power, control of the men with guns and uniforms, the state, and the economy is held by a small group of lying psychopaths. Like Robert Mercer,, the Koch brother, Bezos and the mob of banksters that suck up the wealth of the nation like vampires and offer nothing but bullshit and corruption in return. And you CNN, are a big part of it. In fact people will come to recognize that you are a key member of the new axis of evil. FaceBook -- Buttigieg -- CNN
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  3766. No limbic system: no emotions. No hormones: no emotions. No idea what emotions are: you may think AI has them.
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  3767.  @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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  3768. In case you haven't noticed most lawyers are not in it for the love of justice.
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  3769.  @n.brucenelson5920  You just wrote that they were "NOT" unsprung. Make up your mind. It doesn't matter who designed the suspension, no body can suspend the laws of physics. If they are not unsprung please explain the design. I may buy one if that is the case. However if they are unsprung, as I suspect, I would never buy such a vehicle. Though it may be OK if all your roads are smooth and you don't care about handling. People spend huge bucks to just shave off a pound or two from unsprung weight, not because they are idiots, but because they care about handling. I expect hitting a curb would blow out a tire or damage a motor in an Aptera but would be pleased to be proven wrong. But no matter that outcome, this was a terrible design decision, that I suspect is the result of wanting to put together something out of off the shelf parts. I have no intention of investing in Apteria, so no due diligence is necessary.
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  3770.  @TogoshiTanuki  No, he's not, Poland, no he's not.
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  3771. Increased complexity is not the way to go. BEV is the way. One moving part. One system. Hybrids are stupid, less efficient and less reliable.
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  3772. Spoken like a first class loser.
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  3773.  @Eric19361  It's already happened in the election of Trump as president. See Cambridge Analytica and the sociopath Robert Mercer.
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  3774.  @ryandavies6243  lol -- only if you are entirely in denial of the facts.
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  3775. So hard for the exponentially challenged to see around the next corner.
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  3776. Bullshit. I refer you to the real repositories of wisdom, wherein wisdom equals physical ecstasy, not some half baked romantic notion tossed off by a fictitious character.
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  3777.  @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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  3778.  @Rubylily2509  Elon Musk only owns thirteen percent of Tesla. Most of the owners are small retail investors and Tesla workers who believe that introducing EV tech to the world is important to clean up the atmosphere. Teslas are simply superior in tech compared to every other EV. They have the best selling model car in the world for a reason. They outsell every Chinese car of any kind in China. And three of the four Tesla models are in the top ten of cars with American content and labor and the model Y is number one. Don't confuse your hatred of Musk for hatred of Tesla. His ownership of Space X is far more valuable than his stake in Tesla. And if you took a minute to examine his prime directive, it is giving humanity the chance of surviving the next global extinction level event, by establishing a self supporting colony on Mars. And you may not realize it but such an extinction event is inevitable. Everything he does is aimed at this target despite his goofy trolling and other nonsense.
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  3779. So, admit it or not, the market even rules the commies. Works out great for them until they get "creative".
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  3780. I think Liz would make a great head of the Security and Exchange Commission. Tulsi would make a great Sec of Defense and Bernie would make the greatest pres since the CIA destroyed Jimmy because he downsized them and they went to work for the RNC and destroyed the American economy to put Reagan in. Of course we will need to put someone in as vice president that will dissuade the right-wing nuts from assassinating him. I propose Jimmy Dore for vice pres to make sure that Bernie is not murdered by the fascist right.
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  3781. But in the end Porsche did not produce a car as good as a model S plaid. The Porsche costs more and is not nearly as good despite a hundred years of "experience". The real hope of VW group is to continue to support the fake environmental groups that have been holding up the opening of Tesla Berlin. All those Teslas that Germans have been buying could have been made in Germany instead of China. The best selling car in Germany is currently the Tesla Model 3: made in China. The Tesla plant in Austin Texas started construction after Berlin, but will have ten thousand units out the door before Berlin even gets approval. Why would anyone build a factory in Germany now that the world knows about the astonishing amount of nonsense that it involves?
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  3782.  @DanChirica  Glad to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HubfIunybw
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  3783. The outer hellscape you see is but a reflection of your inner world.
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  3784.  @sarajuanaict  That's "what".
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  3785.  @sarajuanaict  Yeah, that's what bears of little brain say, when they actually have nothing to say.
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  3786.  INDIA SUPER CLEAN 🇮🇳  Yes and all the pure bred shit parasites keep the malaria in check. Wonderful urban planning. Bring the whole family for a vacation. "You may have traveled far and wide but how high have you been?" (former India tourism ad copy attempting to attract hippies in the sixties)
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  3787. You think that a Chinese offensive would look like our idea of a battle. I think a Chinese offensive would consist of infectious microbes or viruses targeted at specific genomic sequences, such as the mutation that allows white Europeans to tolerate lactose. Something that is just allowed to spread as if it is a natural pandemic but one that ends up with China's opponents degraded. China can even pretend to lend aid to the populations that it has infected. Does China have the level of amorality necessary to instigate such actions? Looks like it. Would the West launch a counter attack if it discovered such underhanded aggression. If the military is degraded enough by pathogens the only alternative may be a nuclear strike or surrender to the reality that China rules.
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  3788. The corporate news is still trying to black-out Bernie. Bernie, and Tulsi are the only candidates with any integrity, something the networks and cable news despises. Bernie understands that the lynch-pin of all the legalized corruption in our constitutional republic is campaign finance. What now passes for "business as usual" was not long ago a criminal act. But many progressives do not understand this. They are bored by the subject but excited by all kinds of meaningless PC rhetoric. While I was at a Nader rally in Santa Cruz back during his 2000 run, he said he had time for one more question. I yelled out "Campaign finance!" When he indicated that this was the subject he would address there was an audible groan from this most progressive crowd in America's most leftest town, . I guess most people never consider the fact that if Nader had won, we would have never attacked Iraq and the 2008 great recession (where-in the same people who caused it were put in charge of fixing it and managed to steal trillions in public funds for themselves and the institutions they hid their criminal activities behind) would never have occurred. And I would like to remind everyone that the criminals behind this, who had bribed the legislative branch with campaign contributions, were also the people who changed the laws to allow this disastrous turn of our republic. Which was unequaled until the retrograde idiot section of the supreme court passed Citizens United and other decisions of a antiAmerican nature that benefited the one-percent and their brain-washed right-wing idiot minions. Sorry if this comment went on for longer than a Twitter-brain can attend to. But if you notice, the comments that always get the most likes are always the most obvious and usually the most knee-jerk in nature. Never believe the "first-story": whether given by the government, the corporate news, the republocrats, or your own reactionary quite mechanical mind
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  3789. No discussion at all about the cheating DNC. ABC news simply sucks ass
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  3790.  @CentralKentuckyElevators  That must mean a lot to idiots somewhere.
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  3791. China spending tens of billions all over the world is primarily a way for Chinese insiders to transform their currency (which they print at five times the rate of the USA) from paper to real assets, so that they have a life line when China collapses -- which is near inevitable.
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  3792.  @XX-gy7ue  "The revolution will not be televised"
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  3793.  @XX-gy7ue  The real one won't.
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  3794. Even those in a Trump stupor will eventually see what Donald really is, and be quite ashamed that they had been such a rube, if they have the moral backbone, which most of them won't, they will just continue with the rationalizations for past stupidity in the form of ever more loony conspiracy theories. It would be a their fault if they actually possessed free will, which nobody does, despite the continual subvocal story we all tell ourselves to the contrary.
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  3795. Well bless his little heart. Wonder what Laura Croft thinks of this? Judging from what could happen, she may want to have a prophylactic lobotomy. Poor child.
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  3796. lol -- You obviously know nothing about history, or current events other than the lies you have been fed.
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  3797.  @nathasyapramudita6312  Each generation brings the enthusiasm of life not yet jaded by the actual fact that the evolution of society moves at a snails pace compared to the possibility of conscious evolution possible for some individuals. I always admire those who can bring the insights of their own awareness to concrete fruition as regards human culture. Despite this: In my view the belief that people choose their opinions based on self-aware choice is an illusion. Rather they merely entertain the thoughts that arise automatically as a result of feelings that result from a combination of factors both interpersonal and metabolic. They generally refer to this completely automatic process as "I" and because of this are captive of the further rationalizations that also arise automatically in their "mind" which they refer to as "my thoughts", "my beliefs". "my opinions", "my attitude", etc. In this sense a documentary like this is like a collective rationalization. I am about halfway through viewing it. So far no mention of W's total ineptitude/exploitation of a crisis for political/personal gain (take you pick), no mention of the Taliban having been breed in Saudi sponsored madrassas, no mention that the Northern Alliance were drug dealers, no mention of the fleecing of the public by various contractors for dubious and ill-considered ends and means, etc. etc. So, as the blind man said, "We shall see. , , ,"
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  3798.  @nathasyapramudita6312  :)
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  3799. And the present undemocratic electoral college and gerrymandered voting insures that the votes in the areas with the most intelligent populations count for little, while those of a few drunk distressed rust belt morons determine the elections. Fuck these bastards and the horse they rode in on. The horse they rode in on -- that would be the present campaign finance system. if you hadn't noticed, the systematized corruption that we now call government has evolved from a plutocracy to a kleptocracy.
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  3800.  @robertrichard6107  My view is that his handlers saw a gigantic opportunity to force their regressive policies down the throats of Americans, and they took it.
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  3801. This dude is out of touch with reality. China is doomed -- doomed. China is totally dependent on its enemies to continue. He has it totally backasswards. How is China going to protect the oil shipments it needs? China is on the brink of a demographic cliff from which it will not recover. Zeihan claims China will not survive the decade as a united country, i give them a little longer. Their only hope is to bend the knee in the hopes of continuing as is for as long as possible but it will not save them.
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  3802. Nah, it will be your grandchildren who devour their own children in order to live a bit longer when all the crops fail due to climate change. Of course they will also curse the present generations for knowing that 87% of greenhouse gases come from animal agriculture and persisting in eating meat and dairy despite knowing what it would do to them.
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  3803.  @girowinters  What makes you think that? I am under the impression that the vast majority of Tesla's use non lfp batteries.
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  3804.  @janejoann2963  No: when gold price crashes you still have gold. When crypto price crashes you have nothing, because it is nothing. And crypto minning causes more green house gas than the top five corporations combined.
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  3805. Blame the Palestinians? Blame the Israelis? I blame Lord Rothschild and the British for this ongoing quagmire. The Brits are responsible for most of the instability in the Middle East because of their former imperialist policies. Of course the lies of the respective religions are used to rationalize their respective uncivilized brutality (I still remember that Israeli bulldozer operator crushing that teenage American girl to death when she tried to stop it from flattening Palestinian homes. And the intentional attack of the USS Liberty by Israeli jets posing as Egyptian in an attempt to drag America into a war.) What do you expect will happen when you run people out of their homes because of inane historical and religious beliefs? Inane anti factual beliefs on both the Israeli and Palestinian sides. Over and over again the British established systems of governance that could only lead to unending conflict. In this case one of the first things the Jews who moved to Palestine did was blow up the British police station, and when the Brits withdrew they founded Israel on land that was occupied by other people, taking their land and running them out of their homes because the deeds were held by Turkish concerns that the Zionists bought up at bargain bin prices as a result of the Turkish involvement in WW1. The Jewish homeland should have been established in Brazil, where they could have bought unoccupied land at the time for almost nothing.
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  3806. His rants make a lot less sense since he isn't high on oxys. That's kind of strange. Maybe he doesn't remember what he said because he was nodding out on the air?
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  3807. Personally I would not want to use shared cars, because of contagion. Are they going to clean and disinfect them between each use? Doubtful. What happens when some drunk throws up all over a robotaxi and it comes to pick you up for an appointment? YOu miss it is what happens. Or when the last person who used it dropped their drugs on the floor, and you get pulled over by some hot dog cop? You go to jail.
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  3808. The nazis used the swastika as their symbol. By your reasoning all the tantric Buddhists and tantric Shavites, and Hindus who have swastikas on their temples and in their iconography are nazis. That is just brilliant if brilliant means not so bright.
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  3809. Well, according to the "reasoning" of the triggered haters in these comments: The tantric Buddhists, the Shavites, and all the Hindu religions that have swastikas on their temples and use it as part of their iconography are nazis. Because after all it has the same shape, just like Musk's over exuberant attempt to express his emotions had a somewhat similar form to a nazi salute. And then there is the rhetoric about his support for far right Germans. I guess this had nothing to do with the far left in Germany attempting to shut down the Tesla factory for years with bogus complaints about it using too much water, or the "environmentalist" secretly funded by VW group that filed complaint after complaint and delayed the opening of the Tesla factory for a year, while there is a coal mine just down the road that uses much more water with no protests, or the fact that imbecile far left German youths have been setting fire to Tesla cars parked on the street. If any of you have accomplish one one hundredth of the things that Musk has done to benefit humanity and his indefatigable efforts to ensure humanities survival of the inevitable next global extinction event you would have a leg to stand on, but you haven't and you don't.
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  3810. True: Trump supporters are basically of three kinds: the kind that received huge tax breaks because of him so it "made them a lot richer" (Trumps words), the kind that are opportunistic high functioning psychopaths (like the Trump supporters in Congress with fantastic educations) and see the possibility of a new elite rising up and displacing the present one and glom onto it, and the biggest one, the people who are too stupid to realize how dumb they are and just see a guy who hates the same things that they do -- wrapped in a flag.
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  3811.  Jo Bill  Well one told me it's an international conspiracy of baby eating pedophiles, and that Robert Mercer and George Soros simultaneously get government grants for fentanyil addicted hookers, and shoot machine guns while copulating inside a giant idol of an owl.I mean really, what are they trying to prove with this type of uncouth behavior?
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  3812. The most significant weapons in the war: On the Russian side the Krasnopol and Krasnopol M guided artillery shells with a max range of about 12 miles and a hit rate on specific targets of about 80%. The Russian also have a rocket propelled guided artillery round thought to be the equal or better in range of the American rocket propelled guided Excalibur shell. The American Excalibur is devastatingly accurate and can be used by existing M109A7 Paladin self-propelled howitzers which can send Excalibur rounds to 39.3 kilometers (24.4 miles), which ERCA an extended barrel length howitzer can now lob to 43 miles. Their is a German/South African gun that reportedly can do a little better. The Canadians recently supplied Ukraine with both the Excalibur rounds and the Dutch gave a small number of self-propelled howitzers that can use it. It can also be used by the towed guns recently supplied by the USA and Canada. The use and efficiency of these shells in an anti-artillery role by the competing Russian and recently supplied American radar controlled systems that can target and fire on artillery units within seconds of their use may be the knife edge upon which the entire war is determined, baring the deployment of western air power, in Ukraine. To me the most exciting development in this field is that Norway's Nammo has unveiled a potentially revolutionary concept for an air-breathing, ramjet-powered, pseudo-missile that any standard 155mm howitzer can fire at targets more than 60 miles away. A truly great time for Norway, and Nammo to supply the 155s with a shell that can reach out and touch Russian artillery with little or no exposure other than to air to ground or guide missile fire. To have Russia exchange expensive guided missiles for common artillery with uncommon munitions, is not such a bad exchange in a scenario in which missile production is dependent upon western tech they no longer have access to.
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  3813. Where I live, a small town in the rust belt, any fool with no experience can walk into any one of a dozen plants and get near or over $20 per hour. My cleaning lady makes $25 per hours, no skills, and no taxes, and has all the work she wants.
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  3814.  @beniaminmarin1596  Thievery! They should be paying the public for subjecting them to such an insane display of thread bare entertainment and unrepentant delusion.
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  3815. Face it Jimmy: you can get as creatively angry as you want. I'm sure it is somewhat satisfying or at least mollifying. But Jimmy, come on, you are not a violent cretin that is basically a psychopath in a thousand dollar suit willing to go to any means to preserve their wealth and privilege -- so -- your protestations are ultimately futile unless you can stimulate a movement that can overcome the propensity of those you find so egregious (and who wouldn't find them so) to ultimately back up their desires by ordering about men with guns, who are only doing their duty? Yeh, that duty. . . . the one that doesn't look a graft horse in the mouth? Hey, you better respect the man-with-the-gun's authority, or they can get very testy, very quickly. Oh, sorry, you are actually in no to little danger. Mitch says, what he and Trump says: goes. He said he's sure you will figure it all out in retrospect.
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  3816. No, not depraved indifference -- assault with a deadly weapon. Respect my authority, I'm brain dead.
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  3817. Face it, under the facade both the USA and China are functionally fascist states, as is Russia, Israel and a whole slue of other nations that pose as one thing or another. You don't need to be a nazi to be a fascist you just have to have industry, the military, and government controlled by a power elite.
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  3818. That is saying exactly nothing.
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  3819.  @JeremyVinny  I liked it too. It's not easy to say nothing, and have it mean something real.
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  3820. Could be, but I still judge a nation by the state of it's prisons.
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  3821. Yeh Jimmy you are dumb and you can do it, but this is a channel where most think meat is good for your health and loves to see people beat the shit out of each other so you ain't that dumb.
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  3822. Yeah and a few decades after the fact McNamara simply states that they really didn't know what they were doing in Vietnam. Well we knew what they were doing -- attempting to prevent a democratic election that would have swept Ho Chi Min into power, because of the false domino doctrine and the fear the Indonesia would go communist. What a bunch of evil morons.
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  3823. Indochina should be Indonesia -- for some reason I can no longer edit my comments?
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  3824. For some reason I cannot edit my comments any longer. In the above Indochina should be Indonesia.
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  3825. We know we're gonna do it.
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  3826.  @TheBigBigSean  Every time a cop shoots someone in the back for running they become a criminal. Or just murders someone in cold blood because he is a coward or racist he becomes a criminal. Every time a cop oversteps his legal authority because he is intolerant and stupid and cannot stand to have someone disrespect him -- he becomes a criminal. Unfortunately many criminals who are smart become cops so they can push people around and be more than equal and even murder and get away with it. Police that act criminally are a big problem. How many police departments have to find that they are involved in protection rackets and payed off by drug traffickers and on the take from all manner of scumbags do you need to see reality? Actually stupid people are the problem and your knee-jerk response is a good example of stupid.
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  3827. After Ukraine prevails and Russia is sucked under by it's demographic swamp, Ukraine is positioned for the fastest largest economic development in world history. Demographics is destiny, while historic commentary is merely the rationalizations of hormonally determined partisanship. Like your historic rationalizations, or any historic commentary, all subjective, cherry picked, spun, and twisted.
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  3828. I support Bernie, and cannot fathom Trump's appeal except as a reaction to the general hatred of Hillary. On the other hand Asian is an jerk and Islamic apologist who deserves no public attention what-so-ever. His report about Pat Robinson's dream is real fake news. Research it for yourself. No, he didn't really say that. The story came from a site called "The Business Standard News." This is what they say about themselves: "The Business Standard News is a satirical site designed to parody the 24-hour news cycle. The stories are outlandish, but reality is so strange nowadays they could be true."http://bizstandardnews.com/.../robertson-said-he-had.../
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  3829.  @DYFortescue  Not to mention the fact that most of the people in Hawaii and near all in Alaska love the USA and have no inclination to be separate.
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  3830. Facebook undermines our culture but what is that in comparison to the time you waste using it for your narcissistic need for "likes". Nobody who has any idea of what is really going on would touch Facebook -- even with Donald Trump's little mushroom dick. So you guys are so fucken smart and so fucken addicted to your egos that you can't give up the mental masturbation of Facebook. Boycott Facebook already ya stupid fucks.
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  3831. We should offer cash payment to russians that turn over military resources intact as well as citizenship in Ukraine if they take up arms against the russians.
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  3832. premature celeulation
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  3833.  @eget4144  The USA is far older than the PRC einstein.
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  3834. Yeah a lot of people are hoping that Trump and his sycophant kleptocrats all get infected and die. Probably too much to hope for.
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  3835. I would really like to think that DN is unbiased and fact based. The spot about the student visitors to DC harassing the Invasive Asian march (incorrectly referred to as indigenous peoples ) has apparently been debunked everywhere but here. So disappointing. Amy's apparent punddin headedness concerning these remnants of stone-age Asian tribes is remarkable. They were brutal, torturers, some where cannibals, all were continually at war with one another before any Europeans arrived, and they were responsible for one of the largest extinction events in history. She must be a victim of Hollywood revisionist romanticism.
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  3836. You forgot to mention the biggest cartel: the bankers who wash the money like HSBC and company. All it would take to put them all out of business is for the US gov to wise up, look at the real data from other countries and decriminalize all drugs and end the monopoly they have given to the first criminal billionaires: whom they have created. Opioids should be given to addicts for free in a clinical setting, as much as they want, along with admissions to therapy if they desire it. Then believe it or not, the continual crime to support habits will end and they will be able to hold jobs. That's what happened in Switzerland. Drugs like pot, mushrooms, peyote (mescaline) LSD molly etc. should be legal for anyone over twenty one and otherwise unregulated. Truly dangerous drugs like meth, crack, cocaine, alcohol, and tobacco, should require a license to use and a sign off of any medicare/cade benefits, and free ambulance or emergency room services.
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  3837. Yeah that would all matter if the future technological development stops now, but it won't. It will only speed up, at a rate that is not able to be envisioned by almost anyone presently trying to imagine the future. Even if someone is in their seventies and in good health, they may well live for centuries, with increasing youth. It has been shown in animal studies already that altering one gene can increase healthy lifespan twenty percent. The robots are coming, rapidly, and eventually the economy will be so transformed by limitless near free labor that no calculations made in the present milieu will be in the least relevant.
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  3838. If you are waiting for TSLA to bottom out, I think you missed it. I hope it will go south again for a little while, but I doubt it very much. As for your theory about a buying opportunity for new investors, that is a fantasy. It all has to do with his own financials.
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  3839. slow poison
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  3840. These are the most important videos you will see this week. Trump will not concede and here is why: he has NO honor and he can still win. Here is how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWRhLW7Y8w The greater question is why anyone who is against the kleptocracy that rules the USA would celebrate. The real Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLSk99eE3Kg
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  3841. Really? What is your evidence that Europeans "look down their noses at the USA" That sounds like an ill considered Trump tropism to me. If you can listen to Trump speak for two minutes and it does not insult your intelligence -- you don't have any. He is a compulsive liar, with over 30,000 documented lies he told while in office. Generally politicians suck ass, but Trump has taken it to an entirely new level, and smells it. And in fact there is reason enough to look down one's nose at anyone who supports Trump. The rich for being so pleased to get enormous permanent tax breaks while he spent us to new levels of national debt faster than any other pres before him, and the others who support him because they finally feel proud to be so stupid they can't tell how dumb they are. It's not the first time a NYC conman has pulled the wool over the eyes of a bunch of rubes and it won't be the last.
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  3842.  @rogersutton1768  We have big problems with the two party system, neither of which it seems is able to offer anything up but one of two lesser evils. Personally I held my nose and voted for Harris but most voters simply did not show up. This may indeed be the end of the republic. I had hoped that when it ended it would be an evolution toward a retroConfusian meritocracy wherein anyone could test for any position and win it by scoring highest in the field they applied for, in extensive simulations, psychological profiling, and experience, but it seems we are headed in the opposite direction, manipulated by both fear, lies, and incompetence.
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  3843. I think FSD adoption, when it comes, will largely be a legal matter. Is Tesla or other systems that have proven that they are vastly safer then humans (especially in sleepy, drunk, or aged condition) going to be given special consideration regarding law suits in order that the populace can enjoy a dramatically lower number of vehicle accidents?
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  3844. "That shit ain't the truth" Well the allusion to war is, but you didn't take your "wayback machine" way back enough. As soccer could be seen as reflecting the kind of ritualized warfare that is often seen among tribal people where there is a lot of posturing and running back and forth with only occasional clashes, and very little actual violence, football is a reflection of the classic Greek type of warfare wherein there is a head on violent clash of opponents.
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  3845.  @DK-ev9dg  Well, if you believe Peter, it is Russia that is done, and good riddance.
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  3846. 12:50 The word is comi-tragic.
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  3847.  @SaiKiran-fd3gq  I will take that bet and give you odds.
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  3848.  @Viking-Hunt  The history I read said that they were not the ruling class to start with, but that the Russians were so inept at ruling their own country that they invited Vikings that were really of no special rank in their home country to rule them.
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  3849.  @peterpearson1675  They do. You don't even have to read it, you can find it on YouTube vids or actually google it.
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  3850.  @jeanettebrannstrom2320  Yeah I know that, but I didn't want to go through the trouble of looking up the old names of the individual city-state/territories that did. They became Russia anyway so a rose by any other name. . . .
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  3851.  @oldbloke204  Most people of little brain are too dumb to realize how stupid they are: you are no exception.
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  3852. https://www.youtube.com/@AnastasiInTech/videos
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  3853. It's really very simple. If you are the kind of person who likes to push other people around, you become a cop so you don't have to pay the natural consequences of your criminal behavior. I am in my seventies. I have never needed a cop for any reason during my entire life. Over my life I have gotten about five traffic violations that were complete lies, and the cops lied in court, and the magistrate knew they were lying, and the cops knew they were lying, and I knew they were lying, but we proceeded as if that were not the case. Back in the sixties I had the misfortune of living in a dorm that was inhabited by the son of a local chief of police in Allentown PA, a famous chief of police who had a police academy named after him. I guess he got his son a part time job as a paid informant. This scumbag merely turned in heroin and made up times and places and said that about a half dozen students sold it to him. Months after the alleged event we were rounded up and arrested purely on the lies this scumbag told. I imagine most were pot smokers, I was. So they charged us with sale and possession of heroin and marijuana, which I had never even seen in my lifetime, nor did I know anyone who had ever used heroin. And they got everyone to plead guilty to the sale and possession of pot in order for them to drop the heroin charges. I never smoked pot in front of this scumbag, let alone sold it to him. Everyone knew he was a narc. But faced with the prospect of the possibility of twenty years in prison or a few months in county jail, I think anyone would have been coerced into pleading guilty to a crime they didn't commit. So my life was basically thrown off the rails so this dickhead could advance in his career. And that was just a few kids who were damaged and alienated from the law in our teens, he went on to do this over and over and never to this day, has anything happened to him. And this happens every day, every hour, all over the country. And of course you get the "oh, yeah sure your innocent, they all say that." And if you are naive enough to think this is a fluke or exception you have just been lucky. And since the sixties the power of an individual cop has grown exponentially. They can literally get away with murder and usually do. I was kind of amazed when I got to prison to find that not everyone was an innocent victim, but many of them were. And we are supposed to have respect for the law? Drug laws are a scam, that have nothing to do with real crime. It's business, money for the cops, and keeping recreational molecules illegal has created criminal billionaires and supports organizations that are actually violent and deadly and a source of corruption on an unimaginable scale. If you are unaware of it: people have used various recreational molecules for hundreds of thousands of years, even animals use them. Yet the drugs that are legal, the main one being alcohol, are extremely toxic to every cell in your body. Alcohol is actually more harmful than heroin if the criminality of it is not considered. The war on drugs does not work, it has never worked, and it will never work, it's all just bullshit. In China were your family has to pay for the bullet that they murder you with if your are arrested for selling drugs people still sell drugs, and use them. This whole thing is evil from top to bottom. Not supernatural evil, or other imaginary ideas, but real evil: the domination of someone who does not wish to be dominated -- that's what evil is. Unfortunately too many people in the police are evil, and stupid, and blind to the fact of what they really are. They think they are fucken heroes in their twisted minds, and yes some few of them are, but mostly just people who do not really want to work. And people wonder why others hate the police. Well get a clue. Criminalization of alcohol created the first criminal millionaires, and the US drug laws have created the first criminal billionaires. All plants should be legal in their natural form. I personally no longer use recreational molecules of any kind, not alcohol, not caffeine, not refined sugar, nor any of the demonized molecules. If they were totally legal I still wouldn't use any, with the possible exception of peyote once a decade or so, but I believe that should be my decision and not some politician who has no idea at all of what things are. In PA if you are in the medical marijuana program you cannot own a firearm. But if you are an alcoholic, with a permit you can carry your concealed weapon into a bar. These "leaders" as so stupid it make you want to scream. Where is the evidence? There is loads of evidence that alcohol makes some people more prone to violence and impulsive acts. A friend of mine's son was murdered outside of a bar where he got into a argument with a legally armed drunk. Where is the evidence that marijuana use leads to violence? There isn't any. In fact quite the opposite. We are living in a culture ruled by imbeciles, and an unlikely proportion of them are high functioning psychopaths -- that's the fact. The leaders ARE the problem. Look at the present opioid problem, anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that it just happened to start at the same time that the brilliant leaders made it near impossible for may people to get pain meds from their doctor. It's all nonsense. In Switzerland they solved the drug problem by giving addicts free pharmaceutical drugs, as much as they want, in a clinical setting, with counseling and a caring therapeutic setting. Guess what. The vast majority of the crimes that were being committed to support the criminal cost of opioid addiction dried up, and most of these people were able to reenter legit society and hold down a job. In Portland they just decriminalized drugs, without support, without the necessary care and offers of therapy and guess what? It didn't work. Who could have guessed that would happen? Our country is run by blockheads and high functioning psychopaths -- that is the only reasonable explanation for what is going on. Doing the same stupid things that didn't work over and over, Like war, drug criminalization is a scam.
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  3854.  @Dutchman294  There are a number of reasons for that. Too many to go into here. Suggest Tesla Daily, Electrified, or Best in Tesla for factual info regarding this. They are really the only Tesla centric YouTube channels worth following. Some other are half decent, but a ghastly number are nothing but click bait fantasies. Since beginning of the year, only Tesla, and Porsche, sales have not gone down. Tesla sales have increased dramatically, Porsche's just a little bit, Ford down eight percent, which is good compared to most OEMs. The main reason Tesla is valued so high is the potential for future earnings. Musk says FSD will be here this year -- his detractors say three decades or never. If FSD is finally approved for public use, when it is an order of magnitude safer than the average driver, many people fail to be able to visualize the effects this will have on civilization. We are talking about steam engine level disruption. Many think that other companies are well on the road to being able to compete in this arena. They are not even close. Tesla may well be the most advanced company developing real-world AI. And believe me, no matter how good your imagination is, you cannot imagine the developments that will flow from this. There are loads of reasons that Tesla is valued so high. Most of which, like the powerpack installations for electric utilities and the teslabot are usually not even considered. There is no other company on earth like Tesla, with the possible exception of SpaceX, and yet the wall street elves think they can value it on outdated metrics that only apply to outdated companies like GM, BMW, and Toyota. VW, Ford, and Hyundai still have a chance to survive into the Tesla dominated age of mostly Chinese and Mexican manufactured EVs with various European and American monikers, as is now the case for many ICE cars, made in China/Mexico but GM, Ford or other misleading branding.
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  3855.  @42dunbar  True, but the updates to the lines are intended to take the time of production for each unit from 90 seconds down to 45. Unlike a few weeks of downtime, this improvement will be ongoing.
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  3856.  @Dutchman294  A meaningless comment. You have nothing to say so you resort to personal attacks == how childish.
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  3857.  @kaybecker1266  I would hate to waste Warren as vice pres, but Tulsi as sec of defense sounds great. You have to have a vice president that is so threatening to the opposition that they will not assassinate the president. Like maybe a real socialist. Or someone who actually speaks the facts like Jimmy Dore.
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  3858.  @gikigill788  All the systems you mention follow a ballistic trajectory. The main advantage of hyper-sonic is they do not. They are not equivalent.
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  3859.  @actionflower6706  Good question. They may well have hit the bridge with just such a "bunker busting" munition and it just is the wrong tool for the job.
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  3860.  @gikigill788  Here you are insulting other people for no knowing what they are talking about and you are unaware of the Chinese DF 17 which was already tested and deployed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMeFdMAR0dw
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  3861. And of course no one will step up to become the next criminal billionaires - right - einstein. Really -- how to people actually live with this level of dumb.
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  3862. IBM already selling quantum computers expandable to 200k qbits.
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  3863.  @sharpie_s  Or, we enter an age of abundance and all your anachronistic notions are meaningless. I wonder what you'll bitch about then. . . I'm sure your will find something.
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  3864. Entering WW1 was the stupidest thing that the USA ever did. When Russia collapsed and the revolutionaries signed a treaty with the Central Powers it freed up a million German soldiers to move to the western front. And admit it or not the soviets were now backing Germany. When this happened if the USA had not entered the war due to the subconscious manipulation of the American public via Edward Bernays Council on Foreign Relations, a public that was almost totally against the war became a public that cried for vengeance, even hung a few German Americans in the streets. If the USA had not entered the war at that point the Central Powers would have won. Had we stayed out of it, there would have been no Hitler, no WW2, no vast genocides of Jews, the disabled, gypsies, and various other scapegoat groups, no Soviet superpower, and no loss of over a hundred thousand American boys in a war the nation really had no stake in. AND the end game would have been more or less what we have in Europe today. (Remember the Germany of the time was not a Nazi Nation run by a madman but a constitutional monarchy in which political parties were limited to the legislative arena. And there is much speculation that the real reason for the insane mobilization that took place was the work on the construction of a German railroad from Central Europe into the oil fields of the Middle East, which the British controlled. On the other hand there are those Americans who benefited greatly from the war at the time. By the end of 1918, American factories had produced 3.5 million rifles, 20 million artillery rounds, 633 million pounds of smokeless gunpowder, 376 million pounds of high explosives, 21,000 airplane engines, and large amounts of poison gas.
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  3865. There is your problem. Tesla is twenty years ahead of the competition in technology of EVs. You can only buy a used Tesla at a dealership. People are starting to get it when they learn about the magnitude of the difference in the experience of owning a Tesla Vs everyone else. Safest car, most American cars, highest owner loyalty, highest owner satisfaction, most efficient, continual improvement after the sale via OTA updates, rave performance reviews for latest performance and track models that rival and usually beat cars costing twice as much, and of course the worlds best selling car model -- all without ads, because the owners are the best ad. Of course the media hates the idea that Tesla does not spend billions on ads each year like GM (2.2billion last year) and company, so the news is usually slanted to try to force them to pay the ad vig to defend themselves from the continual misrepresentation by the media. Before you buy an EV, test drive a Tesla. Several of the current models cost less than the average new car, and there is no comparison. And of course you also get access to all of the superchargers, the only viable network in America.
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  3866. The piplines go through Ukraine. Ukraine should blow the damn thing up, this will end Russian oil and gas exports probably for ever, but at least for ten years.
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  3867.  @Rhythmicons  You can thank the black voters of South Carolina for Biden. Thank you idiots who only voted for him because he served with a half black president. Who are the racists here?
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  3868. Not us Me. Me me me me me, all Trump all the time. Please use your barf bags.
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  3869. We had much higher tax rates during the Eisenhower years. When Bill Clinton was pres we were running a budget surplus. OF course all the union shills hate Tesla. It works so much better than anything they have their hand on that is is going to put them out of business simply by offering more value than any competition. It is better to be an owner of the company where you work than someone who just shows up to put in the hours. And it is a fact! Tesla has produced more in-house millionaires than any company in history. It's kind of easy to be democratic socialists while the USA held back the soviet expansion that would have otherwise engulfed your country, and you provided great welfare for your pop instead of defense for them that could have made them safe. Personally I would rather live in Denmark, or Norway, or even Sweden that the USA, but for totally other reasons than unions.
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  3870.  @eamonnmurphy5385  That's pretty much what will happen. Plus the survival of the only known apperceptively conscious species will have it's survival somewhat secured by an independent off-world colony, and the human race will embark on it's golden destiny among the stars and begin to exploit the inexhaustible resources to be found there. To the benefit of all. The Culture will arrive.
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  3871.  @maskedmarvyl4774  His stock option argument weak? If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  3872. Or you could have it beep at you, or just remember where you parked it.
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  3873. So Trump is a socialist after all. . . . Bailout, bailout, bailout.
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  3874. Low IQ population = Mitch has a job for life. Let's hope it ends soon.
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  3875.  @sageunknown6307  Well you are apparently so intelligent that you may want to put your money where your mouth is. I encourage you to place a large bet on a Trump win. You will get great odds, I mean odds that winners like you only see once in a lifetime. You could be rich beyond your wildest dreams. Just put all your money and all you can get on loan on Donald the Lame Duck for the win. You will never regret it and you will thank me later.
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  3876. That is not even close to being true. The "Chinese culture" you mention is just the real estate. Everything else has morphed so much as to be unrecognizable to the original Chinese culture, including the genetic make-up of the majority of the people, which is now mostly from the Mongolian conquests of China.
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  3877. Nope, I would say Iceland has had the most cultural similarity throughout history.
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  3878. Useless white camo with olive drab plate carriers. SFS (so fucken stupid)
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  3879. There is a percentage of people who will actually make their buying decisions based on facts. However the majority of people, especially in the USA, do not use facts and stats to determine what they will purchase. We have known this since before WW1 when Edward Bernays used his uncle Sigmund Freud's discoveries about unconscious motivations to begin selling government policies and consumer goods to the general public with fantastic, almost unbelievable success. Even many Tesla owners were motivated, not by facts, but by emotions they have about Elon, and his stated purpose of prolonging human existence in the face of the inevitable extinction level event. These people, those who are in sympathy with Elon, and those who use facts to make purchase decisions will buy from Tesla, unless something drastic changes. However the majority of people who make their purchase decisions based on unconscious motivations and desires may well not. If you want to sell to these people, you vastly increase your chances by the kind of apparently irrelevant ads like the Polestar ad you reviewed here. The ad basically said nothing except, "We are not Elon Musk." However it is of note that after this ad, while all EV, and EV related stocks went south, Gores Guggenheim, Inc. stock moved from $10 to $13 per share and settles at around $12.25 for the week. About a 22% increase. As you know Gores Guggenheim, Inc. is the company that will merge with Polestar this spring. So you can buy stock in PoleStar right now by buying Gores Guggenheim as you reported weeks ago. I would say the ad was very successful, it increased the companies value by more than twenty percent, as nothing new happened during this time but the SB ad. If you really don't think that emotionally based advertising works you should take a look at the wonderful documentary The Century of the Self, which will explain in a most entertaining manner just what is really going on and how modern advertising and mass motivation uses the psychological weaknesses in people to sell them stuff they don't need or really even want. Like entering WW 1 for instance. Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04&t=1356s
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  3880. I haven't come across any evidence of the adoption of incongruent or anachronistic tech by the US military. Secret weapons are useless and the military knows this. They would not be keeping any alien tech derived systems secret they would disseminate the info to their advantage, and demonstrate their use in Libya or use them in exercises around Taiwan. So if they have them, they are incapable of exploiting the technology.
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  3881.  @sjsomething4936  Sure seems like all that is coming. It's like the computer thing, get something that has a certain amount of future proofing for upgrades is the best one can do. I do kinda wish that EVs allowed you to upgrade the entertainment video. Like a port to plug in dedicated video cards.
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  3882. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  3883.  @GUITARTIME2024  Just because a backdoor conman is screwing the pooch does not mean "We are back". Want your policy enacted? Show him on your phone how much shitcoin you bought.
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  3884. 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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  3885.  @susanfrancis5471  Total. Someone could pick almost anything on his list and show how his statements are misleading. Take the median household income statement. When Jeff Bezos makes 20 billion in a few months, the median household income goes up, even if the income of most people goes down because of lost jobs or other factors. So the median household income is now over 60k. If someone doesn't realize that the average household does not make over 60k they could believe that under Trump the average family had a higher income. Nope. Plus just signing a bill that passed Congress does not make you responsible for creating or promoting it.
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  3886. What you heard doesn't matter, that they are Trump supporters means they support the worst thing that ever happen to the USA, next to Fox fake news.
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  3887. China will attempt to corral the market by dumping mid level chips, no doubt.
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  3888. No
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  3889.  @halohalo505  Get you head out of your ass Trumptard.
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  3890.  @gavinpriem2889  Do you know how to google? Do you know how to descriminate between disinformation spread by right wing fantasy factories and documented facts? Do your own homework.
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  3891.  @gavinpriem2889  So you have some form of ambiguity you found in watching a building with a nursery blown to hell, or a half dozen irate right wing imbeciles driveing their cars into crowds, or gunmen gunning down innocent people because they are of a different race or religion. That's just a new level of denial, conformation bias, and focusing on the insignificant to invalidate the obvious truth before your eyes. Talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees, you can't even see the trees for the lack of focus. There is no media bias when a building is blown up and the guy who did it admits to it and thinks he is a hero because he believes a work of fiction is real. I say look at the incredible violence of the right wing extremists and you say "but what about" saying residents instead of citizen. Man -- unbelieveable. Only a Trumptard with authoritarian personality disorder (like most of them suffer from) could do you any better.
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  3892. Why do you feel compelled to interject your superstitions into everything? Try something real like giving blood or money. If you ever wake up to reality your will be ashamed of this behavior. The only institution that is responsible for more suffering and death than your silly religions is your silly governments. Your well wishes mean nothing without real action in the real world, not the fantasy world you have been indoctrinated into. Want to know the truth about your quite insane beliefs? Ask who benefits from millions believing nonsense.
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  3893.  @marosaliesansu  Is that your substitute for actual knowledge? Hint: it is just stories that have nothing to do with the real world. The more "religious" the country, the more crime, more poverty, more ignorance in general, more violence against outsiders, more suffering over things that do not exist. You true believers have a lot to learn, most of all that freedom from delusions is well worth the price of giving them up.
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  3894.  @rodmarker2071  You need to get up to speed on your "facts". Those fields of cars are off lease hybrids and ICE that have been discontinued. Batteries do not explode, gas tanks explode, when the fumes ignite. Some batteries do catch fire, but far far fewer than gas fires in ICE. We have the statistic on this and evidently all you have is media lies.
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  3895. It's the people not the system Mat. If you think you would be better off in a union working for GM or Ford, than to be working for Tesla and taking advantage of the employee stock program -- think again. Time for the woke folk to wake the fuck up and put down the crack pipe of commercial media lies. The facts: The average salary paid to an employee working at Tesla is $110,192. Tesla pay is based on an employee’s position and department. The product team earns an average salary of $201,032. This is the highest salary figure of any department at Tesla. The lowest earning department at Tesla is admin. It is estimated a receptionist earns $38,015 annually. Just to make it easier lets say a salary of 40k. Because Mary is a real looker, is charming and has a sexy voice so she was able to get 40k as a salary, though she never got any raises to make up for it. That means that every six months she is able to buy three thousand dollars of Tesla stock at a discount of 15% off the lower price of the closing price of day one and day 180 each six months. An example: Mary works as the lowest paid position in Tesla. She is a receptionist. She has been working for five years and ten months. She started work on Feb 1, 2019. Tesla closed at $21.33. On August 1st 2019 it closed at $15.04. She was then able to spend $3,000 on 234.5 shares of Tesla at a employee discount price of 12.79. On Feb 1st 2020, she was again eligible to buy three thousand dollars of stock. Tesla closes at $44.53, but she is still able to buy 234.5 more shares at $12.79. Mary now has 469 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2020 Tesla closed at $166.11. But Mary was still able to buy $3000 dollars of Tesla at $37.85 (79.25 shares). Mary now has 548.25 shares of Tesla. Thirty days later Tesla stock splits 5 - 1. Mary now has 2,741.25 shares of Tesla stock. On February 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $225.17. But Mary is still able to buy it for $141.19. Mary now has 2,762.5 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2021 Tesla closes at $245.25, but Mary is able to purchase it for 208.46. She spends her $3000 and Mary now has 2,776.89 shares of Tesla. On February 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $290.14. But Mary is able to buy it at $246.62. Mary now has 2,789.05 shares of Tesla stock. On August 1st 2022 Tesla closed at $275.61. Mary's price is $234.27. Mary now has 2,801.85 shares of Tesla. Twenty three days later Tesla stock splits 3-1. Mary now has 8,405.56 shares of Tesla. . . . Are you beginning to understand what nonsense you are spewing? It's OK I know you can't admit because you are steeped in lies and have to make meaningless "virtue" signaling to the rest of the puddin' head mob. On February 1st 2023 Tesla closes at $205.71. Mary's price is $176.85. She now owns 8,422.52 shares of Tesla. On August 1st 2023 Tesla closed at $258.08 Mary is still able to buy at $176.85 Mary now owns 8,439.47 shares of Tesla stock. Mary has been working for almost six years. Her salary totals $232,000. Her Tesla stock is worth $2,088,784.96. She became a millionaire working as a receptionist. Conclusion: Not what you thought -- aye Elroy?
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  3896.  @mattias5157  Quality of life Mat. Even in the North of Europe over two and a quarter million dollars in return for less than six years work as a receptionist results in a pretty good quality of life.
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  3897. You mean you thought the USA had a queen? Sheltered life -- I guess.
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  3898. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OQmvRUdr3U&t=718s
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  3899. You call this news? I call it irrelevant.
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  3900. Hard not to like Peter: but I have the feeling he sold his soul to the CIA and/or some oil soaked cabal long ago. Got him a best seller though Tooze thinks no global recession. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmrIIumfBeY
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  3901. In that future "power" may actually mean power, as in the power in the electric grid, instead of the power to have armed men kill people.
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  3902.  @dontbanmebrodontbanme5403 Well I must be out of my mind because I have no interest in the Y at all, but may give up my CT reservation if the model 3 ludicrous is outrageous enough.
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