Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. Use everything you got to profit! She uses her skills, talent, smarts and beauty, and why shouldn't she? Those things won't last forever, so better take advantage now. And the way she is able to deflect sensitive questions shows a high level of maturity for her age.
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  2. All those companies that manufacture in China will probably never leave completely. China is itself a large market for all these products, so as long as it makes sense, companies will at least continue to produce for the local, and maybe regional market.
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  3.  @MrCasco0o  She uses herself as an object for marketing, and profits from it. Pretty good, if you ask me.
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  4. It's probably a necessary correction as these industries mature and become 'the auto industry' of the 21st century: Good revenue, decent profits, but no expectation of massive future growth. There are still future promises in robotics and AI, but we don't yet know if these sectors pan out the way we hope.
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  5. until 80 years ago, this kind of conversation between a Brit and a frog would have been pure fantasy. Now it seems quite natural. Our world is just a much better place than it has ever been.
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  6.  @Joseph-eh4rs  Looks like a punctuation error. Here, I fixed it: "South Korea sent 300k NATO shells to USA, and North Korea 1 million shells to Russia".
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  7. A much better video on this topic would be to focus on whether Robby Starbuck and his activism has actually had an effect or not. This can obviously be hard to substantiate, but they could look at corporations Starbuck has criticized versus those he hasn't and then see if there is a marked difference between the two groups. Personally, I think it is just as likely, if not more so, that the whole woke/DEI/CRT trend has simply lived out its life. It was a sudden wave of social upheaval, it quickly grew to massive proportions, but then slowly people got tired of it. It's like fashion, or music: Here today, gone tomorrow.
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  8. An odd mish-mash of facts: Helium 3 exists on the moon and it MIGHT be used to make energy in a reactor that MIGHT come online in the next 20 years. We don't know how much Helium 3 there is, we don't know where it is, we don't know how to mine it, or how to bring it back to earth. But, they say, China is working on a space craft that can take 120 tons to Low Earth Orbit. That's great, but the moon is not in LEO, so that point seems irrelevant. Who knows, maybe one day China can bring back Helium 3 back to earth, but this video certainly doesn't give us any clues as to how that might happen.
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  9. There is no difference, and the restrictions are not for Chinese people. They for everyone arriving from China, no matter their ethnicity or nationality. Likewise, a Chinese citizen arriving from a third country will not be restricted.
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  10. I live in China and I keep hearing about his 'digital currency', but this is not a digital currency, its just a state-sponsored payment app. How is it in any way different from using Alipay or WeChat Pay? It's still the regular Chinese currency: CNY.
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  11. I'm in Shanghai, too, though fortunately never tested positive. It's been a tough two months. Now, on May 18th, we're seeing signs that more people are being let out after applying for exit/entry passes. In my community it might happen tomorrow. Locals here in China may protest, but generally, they won't disobey orders. It's partly cultural, partly due to decades of strict 'people management'.
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  12. Birds are very stupid, that's why.
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  13. It's not the Wall Street Journal's claim, it's the WHO (which is cited in the video). The WHO's claim is based on numerous studies made around the world, including in China. Additionally, these numbers do not reflect 'risk reduction', but efficacy rate. That is also mentioned in the video. In other words, you're talking about a different aspect than the video is.
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  14. There is no evidence for your claim. It is simply a belief you have.
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  15. I grew up with vinyl but I don't think I'm going back to it. However, the big drawback of streaming and other digital music is the lack of liner notes and artwork. Those two aspects are what I really prize about vinyl and CDs. I love (with jazz, mostly) to read about the recording session, the dates of the different takes, the producer, engineer, sometimes there are essays describing how the session went or what led up to the recording. You don't get that with modern formats, or even with modern music, at all.
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  16. Space is crowded? Let's compare to commercial air traffic which flies at around 5-12 km above the surface. At least before the Covid pandemic, there were over 100,000 flights daily. Compare this to about 5,600 satellites flying between 240km and 36,000 km above the surface. And as with airplanes, we can pretty much predict where a satellite will be at any given time. Seems to me the true complaint is that space stations (and possibly satellites) have to use time, effort and precious fuel to adjust their position to get out of the way, which is seen as a major inconvenience.
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  17. Well, the term 'superior' was used by the journalist, not Starbuck's itself. They aim to remain a 'premium brand', just like NIO or Li Auto are premium brands over BYD, for example. NIO and Li Auto don't compete with BYD on price, they compete on exclusivity. Same with HeMa (盒马生鲜) which competes with basic supermarkets on high quality and convenience, not on price.
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  18. The future nuclear weapons are nuclear pistols that shoot tiny warheads with a yield of 3-5 micro-tons of TNT. Their mushroom cloud is about the size of a real button mushroom. We call them 'cute nukes'.
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  19.  @EyreEver  You don't really know that, but you believe it.
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  20.  @thomaszhang3101  " when China ordered isolation for foreign tourists, it offered free hotel, services and meals,". That is not true. Visitors had to pay for quarantine rooms. In Shanghai it was RMB 300-500 per night. And there were other costs, of course, incl. special testing clinics. Overall, on average it cost around RMB 12,000 to enter China, not including flight or visa. It was troublesome for everybody, but we got through it. And now, it's almost over. A few more months from now it may be as simple to enter China as it was in 2019.
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  21. Thanks for your interest, but being in lock-down, I have no other information than what I see on social media or online. I can't go out and survey the situation (though that seems to be changing very soon). Food has been a problem, but I don't think anybody is starving. Yes, I've not been able to eat as much as I wanted, but I have enough caloric input to stay alive. Money is not a problem for most people, the problem is finding a way to spend it, i.e. getting your purchases to your door. However, many small businesses are suffering and I think many will go bankrupt. A small business cannot sustain two months without any revenue at all.
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  22. Ali, its time to pay, don't you know?
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  23. Contract manufacturing of cars, isn't that completely new? I've never heard of a car maker that outsources their entire production line. Except perhaps small batch 'super cars'.
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  24. "show me an 'meaningful' alternative". Well, before Zhengzhou there was Shenzhen, so that is one alternative. Companies will move where it makes most economic sense.
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  25. Great explainer video! I guess the hotel industry has learned from the fast food industry. What industry will follow this path next? Air travel? You operate a B737 and you get to slap a 'Singapore Airlines' on the side, if you manage it well.
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  26. The narrator sounds like she's sitting under her duvet with a flashlight, quietly speaking into the mic, worried that her parents might hear her.
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  27. The project is going swimmingly!
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  28.  @brendakayyy  Thanks for your reply. It's all becoming clearer now.
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  29. I don't understand these concerns about privacy. We've been talking about them for decades. And for decades, tech companies have been collecting data about us and our behavior, online and off. But in those decades I cannot think of a single time where I have been bothered or inconvenienced by this collecting of my data.
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  30. The real question is: How many years is 'a few years'?
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  31. I don't think we were ever really friends, but for 30 years we tolerated each other and had a good trade relationship. I think those days are over.
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  32. Maybe it changed at the very end of 2022, but here is a quote from the Chinese travel giant Trip (Ctrip, 携程) from October 13, 2022: "Travelers are required to quarantine at their own expense for seven days in government-approved accommodations and, where appropriate, an additional three days in quarantine at their residence or accommodation". Here is from NYU Shanghai campus website giving advice to new students: "What is the cost for quarantine? The cost for quarantine hotels range from 200RMB (30USD)/night to 600RMB (85USD)/night. Meals cost 100RMB (12-15 USD)/day. " Here is from Am-Cham Shanghai: "As of July 2022, all inbound travelers to Shanghai need to undergo centralized quarantine at designated hotels for 7 days and 3-day health monitoring at home. Travelers will be assigned to the districts where they reside (typically registered home addresses). Travelers need to cover the expenses of hotel stay and food services."
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  33. They forgot to mention the difficulty in overcoming Russian anti-air defense systems, incl. the Pantsir, S300 and S400. These are highly capable systems on par with the best that we have. Any aircraft will need to be equipped with anti-radar missiles (ARM) to prevent them all from getting shot down early in the battle.
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  34. Yes, in China itself, everything is just fine!
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  35. Only Prigozhin will go to Belarus. All the Wagner soldiers will go back to base, ie. southern Ukraine.
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  36. Gold is not a better conductor, but silver is. Silver has a tendency to corrode over time, though, and it is very expensive, of course.
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  37. To quote Donald Trump: "Billions, and billions, and billions, and......."
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  38. That's a good point, but 25 years ago, China talked a lot about mining methane clathrate from the bottom of the oceans to use as an almost limitless energy source. Nothing much has happened since then. There are ideas, and then there are application of ideas. Without application, the ideas themselves remain just ideas. Nuclear fission energy is a good choice for China. Maybe focus on that for now. Several reactors already built and under construction.
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  39. Does this mean my Andy Warhol paintings are out of fashion? Anyone want them?
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  40.  @calvinblue894  But when you join the army, you go into it expecting some deprivations, like long marches, digging trenches, little sleep... If you move to a major metropolis, you generally don't expect to be deprived your freedom to move or buy food. Each situation should be viewed in context.
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  41. The Kiel Institute's account of spending/support for Ukraine only starts from February 2022, not from 2014. So they're not wrong, they just don't start from back in 2014. But what does the US government itself say about its support for Ukraine? Quote from the US State Department website, March 4, 2025, entitled 'U.S. Security Cooperation with Ukraine': "To date, we have provided $66.5 billion in military assistance since Russia launched its premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and approximately $69.2 billion in military assistance since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. We have now used the emergency Presidential Drawdown Authority on 55 occasions since August 2021 to provide Ukraine military assistance totaling approximately $31.7 billion from DoD stockpiles." So, in fact, the EU is NOT way behind, but on par with the US on assistance to Ukraine.
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  42. But they didn't move out of America and the rest of the west overnight. It was a slow process that took 30 years. Moving on from China will take at least a decade.
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  43.  @miltontong4032  I've lived here for 25 years, but I don't see how that's relevant, especially since this is all fairly recent. My point is that this is not a 'digital currency' like Bitcoin, but simply the CNY through a payment app. Perhaps you have some insights to share since you're so knowledgeable, Milton?
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  44.  @andresiniesta9955  Very enlightening, thank you. :-)
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  45. Not perpetuating, but winning. The two parties will go on until one of them has decidedly lost.
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  46. Maybe Comac will become a genuine competitor to Airbus and Boeing, or perhaps they will end up like Russia's Tupolev: Making perfectly serviceable aircraft, but not quite good enough to compete with their western giants.
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  47.  @siamcharm7904  You're very optimistic. Perhaps with magic, but that seems unlikely.
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  48.  @thomaszhang3101  I found a video here by a guy called Yan Yu, describing his quarantine experience entering Shanghai in Aug. 2022. It's a bit long, but you can go to 16:17 for a cost overview.
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  49. Considering Sweden is now in NATO, 'bowing down to NATO' means bowing down to themselves.
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  50. Actually, cases are falling.
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