Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

  1. Funny how the places the rich concentrate on are Five Eyes states, or those that rely on visible US military presence… and the list of aspiration for ultimate residence isn’t too different for the less well-off. If the movement of people and their wallets count as votes, it’s clear that the Western “pole” is by far the only one worth pointing towards.
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  2. Do you know who QCs the iPhone? Hint: they're not Mainlanders.
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  3. That's the tradeoff for not building up, instead opting to sprawl out 1-2 storey wooden McMansions into wildfire territory. But doing what the rest of the world figured out would ruin the "character" of your neighborhood at the cost of the masses of potential California taxpayers who are still dying to move in.
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  4. Plus the intentionally increasing difficulty of obtaining registration for an ICE vehicle, while EV plates are still open season.
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  5. HOA doesn't pay for schools and emergency services. Also the biggest source of homeowner stress is often the HOA.
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  6. Buy in on "Boyler Plate" coin!
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  7. Although there was a similar argument when we began buying ICE vehicles instead of horses -- gas stations were far away and the roads more suitable for legs rather than wheels. The EV adoption ultimately doesn't have as big of a barrier as long as chargers are rolled out at least as quickly; if you have electricity, you have the capability to top up a battery.
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  8. The only real "private" would be fully family-run, every other organization has various degrees of Party oversight into their operations. That's kind of the point of Communism.
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  9. "I got mine, you piss off" says those same people
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  10. Particularly the older established bungalow-owning retirees who dominate local politics (and thus land use policies), benefitting themselves at the cost of everyone else who's dying to move in.
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  11.  @somerandominternetdweller More like wood construction is cheap, especially with nobody else coming close to how much America in produces in farmed lumber 🌲🌲🌲🇺🇸
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  12.  @IshmaelPrice Just shows how deeply laissez-faire libertarian the US already is despite all its complaints about “high taxes”.
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  13. Yeah not so much "freeloading" as having some supplement, where you still need to hustle to make up for the rest of your living expenses.
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  14. More like not enough employees processing the backlog of applications, along with a shortage of construction workers who have skills beyond balloon-frame bungalows. Regulations exist because they're written in blood.
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  15. We still need meat though. It's not hard to find the health issues associated with veganism, and cutting out animal products would compel us to evolve into the mindless inefficiently-digesting cows we're "saving". Even durable vegetarian diets still rely a lot on dairy and often eggs too.
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  16. Inheriting over a century of entrenched conservative interests that they're still trying to negotiate around, especially after Reagan's governorship.
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  17. Beijing is betting that Americans don't have as big an appetite for losses, so combat will be a deterrence in itself. I'd wager that they underestimate our resolve once they start slamming the cities of our friends, the largely air and naval battles won't be able to provide live news updates that attrite our willingness, and they overestimate how patriotic Chinese families will remain when their only sons disappear on deployment.
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  18. Yeah at least immigrants work. The homeless Americans that other states quietly bus in not so much.
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  19. Winner-take-all voting naturally results in two parties: the one victor, and the lot of all losers. Yet moderating alternatives like ranked-choice polls are exactly what's being preemptively banned by GOP-run states.
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  20. Democrats inheriting the interests of a more conservative and wasteful history.
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  21. It already is an agricultural powerhouse. Thing is we're selling off the limited water reserves that California farmers can realistically access as exports to multinational corporations and out-of-state markets, one which the scarcity-driven prices and historically unlimited usage rights only encourages more of.
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  22. There's also the fact that the Sierra Mountains trap smog, which compelled California to use a more detergent-heavy blend unique to the state. If you thought LA Smog is bad now, you should have seen the air quality from before even when less people were on the roads.
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  23. I'd bet think tank. They're the scapegoats when an "analysis" (always conveniently aligned with those of their sponsor) doesn't go as planned. Elon is just getting set up to be a mulligan for the bad ideas of Trump and his MAGA Republicans.
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  24. The tariffs was America being protectionist against all countries during the Great Depression. The "ABCD Line" (as in encirclement by America, Britain, China, and Dutch) didn't arise until after Japan had seized Manchuria and began invading China Proper in 1937.
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  25. Look a bit harder at Google Earth and check out how not-flat and fire-prone the terrain is where it's connected to the places people actually want to move to. Agglomeration Effect is a real thing especially if you enjoy consistent compensation.
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  26. Or attempt to anyway. Every previous great dynasty fell basically because of internal political scheming and lack of more open criticizing of leadership within the court, leaving its empire vulnerable to domestic rebellions and military setbacks. Ironically the "stability" sought by its autocracies over the ages just makes the country more brittle.
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  27. That’s why pumped-hydro resevoirs may be key, either as new builds (any elevation change works including hilltops and old mine shafts) or by retrofitting existing dams.
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  28. A star going supernova is brightest right before it goes dark forever.
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  29. Capitalism in general favors and rewards sociopaths. That's why without the constraints of regulation, the free market M&A's itself into monopoly and charges through the nose the rest of us for the privilege of access to their economy.
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  30. "If government would shut the doors and sneak away for about three weeks, we'd never miss 'em"... that aged well considering the deletrious effects of GOP-led federal shutdowns 📉
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  31. It's also they're mostly retired, so they have all day to get politically indoctrinated by mass media and wait in line at the polls, taking advantage of pro-traditionalist politics that make voting deliberately inconvenient to working adults with their more "disruptive" progressivist ideas.
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  32. Probably because Russian oligarchs discovered it’s way easier to exchange Rubles into Dollar-pegged Dirhams that it is into Pounds Sterling 💱
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  33. If the answer was that simple, he wouldn't waste a half hour plus production time explaining it.
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  34. I'd bet the DOGE just turns out to be no better than a sponsor-validating "think tank" that's just directly funded by taxpayers. Elon is just being set up as a scapegoat when one of those DOGE ideas crashes well short of the moon.
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  35. Is it at least entertaining, like in Taiwan where they have constant fistfights only to break for a Legislative Yuan?
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  36. ​ @BlindedByLogic Father Time isn't a spring chicken himself, especially being bribed by the senior care paid by retirees cashing out the massive equity off their then-affordable homes, often paid by corporations rather than young adults who actually need a place for themselves.
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