Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @mosseisleyYT  Isn't that what I wrote? I mean, exactly the same?
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  2. Pink Floyd is not going to be happy about this.
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  3. 4:10 Foxconn makes components? I thought they only did assembly.
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  4.  @mothratemporalradio517  Yes, so far belief is all we can have, because there is no evidence either way.
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  5.  @中央山脈-c4i  Ok, if not about personnel, what kind of deal are you suggesting/imagining? I guess I'm questioning that there even is any kind of deal at all. Why would they have a deal going on?
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  6.  @中央山脈-c4i  "what he was told/promised". What do you think he was promised? And why would such a 'secret/under-the-table' promise be written in an official document handed out during the meeting? Frankly, I think you're letting your imagination run wild. Re. nurses vs. staff, you don't need a nurse to help an old man up from his chair and guide him out the room. Now I'm still open to the idea of a purge and humiliation of Hu, I just want to see some evidence. Speculation isn't enough to convince me.
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  7.  @中央山脈-c4i  "don't trust anything china says". I don't, but that doesn't mean I can just conjure up some alternative reality in my mind. I've seen the same footage as you, and to me Hu just looks very frail and confused, like someone with dementia.
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  8.  @中央山脈-c4i  You only wrote "there was a deal, and Xi pretends to agree", but you didn't write what kind of deal it might be. Of course we cannot know, but I'm interested to hear your suggestion. It could be anything: Hu: "Hey Xi, don't forget to bring back my Playstation 5 after you're done with it." Xi: "Sure, I'm almost done with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare".
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  9.  @中央山脈-c4i  I disagree with the 'must'. They might have had a deal, but we cannot know that for certain. It is one of several possibilities. Besides, Ai Wei Wei is an artist. Why is his opinion more accurate than anyone else's? Yes, there are factions in the CCP: The 'Princeling faction', the 'Youth League faction', the 'Shanghai faction'. From now on going forward, there may only be two factions: the 'Marxist faction' and the 'Reform faction'. This is well known, but it doesn't tell us anything about any deals.
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  10. So many videos of this, but none of them show the run-up to the incident. Why not start the clip a minute before it happened?
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  11.  @borja1000  I hear there are great BBQ and steaks!
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  12. You should write your suggestions to the wind power companies. Maybe they'll give you a job.
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  13. It's hard to make news with something moving so slowly. It could be 20 meters from crashing into South Georgia, and still take days or weeks before it happens.
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  14. I think you're making things up. Russia is still in the World Trade Organization.
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  15. So BBC doesn't actually provide an answer, only more theories...
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  16. Congratulations to the Chinese space people. This was quite an achievement!
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  17. Russia is getting offended!
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  18.  @niblet112  Good for you!
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  19.  @Counter879  No tears. After all, it's not my country that has to deal with the Taliban. I'm safe and comfortable.
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  20. It has been reported by BBC, but you have to click on some links to get it. I know, you can't handle that.
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  21. It's amazing that only now is Germany considering re-evaluating the shut-down of its nuclear power facilities. Frankly, they should have made that decision already back in March. It's almost as if Germany cannot see the reality in front of their eyes. Come on, Germany, wake up! We need you to be strong, we need you to grow a spine. Just don't take it too far, like you did in the 1930s.
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  22.  @Funktastico  Well, auto manufacturers would only make a deal with Foxconn if it makes economic sense to them, meaning they can sell more cars, and they can sell more cars if each car is a little cheaper. So yes, that is what it means. But remember, for now it is just an idea, not yet reality.
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  23.  Hajos Armandio-Liviu  TLDR
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  24. Palestine already has democracy. They elect their president in free and open elections (though perhaps not always fair).
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  25. Imagine taking a human family from their 23rd floor apartment and sending them into a forest 'human reserve', given fur pelts for clothing and access to a cave for living in. Once a week, the park wardens throw in some food, since they have forgotten how to survive in the wild.
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  26. It's not hard to flee to South Gaza. It's only about 15-25 km, a distance that can easily be covered on foot in 3-5 hours.
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  27.  @urbanaudio9089  Exactly! A backpack and a couple of bags in each hand will probably lengthen the walk by a couple of hours, so that brings them up to 7-8 hours max. No biggie.
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  28. Can you tell us when China will start shaking the world? It would be nice to prepare.
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  29. I think this war could easily last more than 2 years. Once Russian forces go into defensive positions, digging themselves down, it can be a very lengthy process to 'smoke' them out. It's a lot easier to defend than to attack.
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  30. Well, we're at 7.3% now, so it's entirely feasible, though by no means guaranteed.
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  31.  @voltydequa845  Your comment has no meaning. "Make up your sense". Do you mean 'make up your mind'?
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  32.  @voltydequa845  'Put your mind into sense' is also not correct English. Perhaps you mean 'be sensible'? With regard to the future of wind power, we can only speculate, but to go from 7.3% to 20% is certainly within the realm of possibility. It requires annual growth of 15% in new installations over the next 7 years. Growth in 2023 was 9%, so not enough yet. Time will tell.
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  33.  @alexyou3233  Some Chinese are very rich and they are the ones who can afford to buy property overseas. I even know a few of them myself. But this is the top 0.1% of society and does not represent the broader Chinese society.
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  34.  @alexyou3233  " How is 0.1% of China buying out multiple countries?" They're not. What you're reading is most likely hysteria, aimed at ramping up viewer numbers.
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  35. @Patriot When you write 'he', who are you referring to? The poster [Alex You] is most likely a hyper-patriotic Chinese-Australian (or Chinese student in Australia) for whom China can do nothing wrong. There are lots of those types online.
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  36. Don't you want to improve your life? Improving your life entails spending more, if not on consumer goods, then on better food, better clothes, better and longer vacations, going out at night. Don't you want to improve your housing situation? That means spending more money. It is the desire to improve one's life that makes the economy grow. No growth = no improvement. No improvement = no growth.
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  37.  LOOK_UP_RAPTURE  "GUYS JESUS IS COMING". People have been saying this shit for centuries, but it never seems to come true. Why should we believe you this time? Do you have any evidence to present?
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  38.  @Diegomkz  " a big part of industrialized countries consume things that are not necessary". Yes, there is no doubt that we in the developed world overconsume to a large degree. I agree with that. And I suspect that many of the people who decry overconsumption also happily order a bunch of clothes on Shein on a regular basis. Nothing against women because of that, but it shows that our desires often override our more thoughtful plans. I used to be part of a large cycling community, many of whom took pride in their zero-carbon transportation mode. And yet, many of them also bragged about the 4, 6, 8 bicycles they owned, completely needlessly. If you want to fight overconsumption, you have to fight the human desire for admiration, respect, love. People can't help themselves.
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  39.  @yashwardhansable5187  Your example addresses inequality. I'm discussing growth, not inequality. You can have growth and equality, or growth and inequality, or no growth and either. However, let's use your example of country B, where people all earn $300, but with no growth. Every year they make $300.- Country B imports some (maybe just a few) goods from another country, country C. C has growth, C has technological development and they make new smart phones every year. Eventually, their phones cost more than $300 and people in B can no longer afford them. B starts falling further and further behind. Eventually, B becomes an underdeveloped country, compared to C, and falls into perpetual poverty.
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  40.  @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039  And yet, every time we notice we're running short of a certain type of fish, or tree, we put in a moratorium so we will never run out. Because we humans are smarter than the Cree Indians thought we were. While hunter-gatherer people may have had very good understanding of local plants and animals, their level of knowledge was basically on par with what the developed world had in medieval times. They were certainly not well versed in science and really had a very limited understanding of how humans can function in the world.
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  41.  @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039  "if we carry on as we are most commercial fish will be gone by 2048". Yes, that is why we will not carry on the way have been. We humans are pretty good at changing course when it really matters. We (largely) stopped killing whales, dolphins, pandas, elephants, rhinos and all the other animals that are close to extinction. Many have been brought back to more sustainable levels.
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  42.  @harveytheparaglidingchaser7039  The sixth mass extinction, a.k.a. 'The Holocene Extinction' has been under way for 15,000 years and includes extinction of megafauna done by our ancient ancestors (woolly mammoth, etc.) and the deliberate extinction by hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries of several species, the Dodo, for example (the flightless bird, not the YouTube channel). We became aware of this problem over 50 years ago, which is why the WWF was established. In recent decades we have become much better at mitigating and preventing the extinction of further species. There are large inter-governmental initiatives underway to prevent species loss, something that has never happened before, and countries across the world are working to protect endangered animals. Yes, there is still species loss, but it's not always due to human activity. Yes, we have a problem, I recognize that, but I am optimistic that we're moving in the right direction.
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  43.  @juang5424  No, my argument was the opposite of that: People buy these products because they make our lives and the world better. It is an argument against those who say we should slow down and stop growing.
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  44.  @philtucker1224  No, I mean one meter. Now, it could be two meters, but certainly not 20 meters or more, and one kilometer would be virtually impossible to do.
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  45.  @philtucker1224  Yeah, I have no idea, either. But to me, one meter seems like a lot for an anchor to go into the bottom. Be that as it may, each tunnel segment weighs 73,000 tons + the soil around and above it, so you'd need a really big boat to move it anywhere.
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  46.  @ВалерийБогомазов-д5п  It's Turkey.
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  47. Danish, not Norwegian. Denmark is practically Britain, at least it was 900 years ago.
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  48. The Finnish have the advantage that they drink a little less vodka than the Russians on a daily basis.
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  49.  @jajkc  There were originally a lot of people in the boat, all migrants trying to reach Europe. But they got lost and many people on the boat died of thirst, etc. Only three people left alive when they were found.
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  50. "It happened to our grandfathers, now it's happening to us". That reminds me of a song by The Smiths.
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